The Osage Creek Bridge is a historic bridge in southern
Benton County, Arkansas
Benton County is a county within the Northwest Arkansas region with a culture, economy, and history that have transitioned from rural and agricultural to suburban and white collar since the growth of Walmart, which is headquartered in Benton C ...
. The bridge formerly carried County Road 71 (Colonel Myers Road) across
Osage Creek, about north of
Tontitown, but it has been closed. It is a single-span iron Pratt through truss structure, with a span of , resting on concrete abutments. It has a lattice guardrail on one side, a feature that rarely survives on bridges of this type. The bridge was built in 1911 by an unknown builder, and is one of about 60 Pratt truss bridges in the state.
The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1988, and was delisted in 2022.
According to Bridgehunter.com, it was moved to facilitate a new bridge over Osage Creek in 2014 and scrapped in 2015.
See also
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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Arkansas
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References
External links
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Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Bridges completed in 1911
1911 establishments in Arkansas
Historic American Engineering Record in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Benton County, Arkansas
Pratt truss bridges in the United States
Iron bridges in the United States
Former National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Transportation in Benton County, Arkansas
2015 disestablishments in Arkansas
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