County Line Bowstring

United States historic place


County Line Bowstring
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°39′14″N 97°34′23″W / 39.65389°N 97.57306°W / 39.65389; -97.57306
Built	1876
Built by	Wrought Iron Bridge Company
Architect	Phoenix Bridge Co.
Architectural style	Bowstring pony truss
MPS	Metal Truss Bridges in Kansas 1861–1939 MPS
NRHP reference No.	89002192
Added to NRHP	January 4, 1990^[1]

The County Line Bowstring is a bridge located near unincorporated Hollis, Kansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1] It spans West Creek on the border between Cloud and Republic counties and has a wooden deck with a bowstring pony truss.

It is a single-span Bowstring arch truss bridge which is 80 feet (24 m) long and 16 feet (4.9 m) wide.^[2]

The span was built in 1876 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Ohio, as one of four spans in a bridge crossing in Concordia, Kansas. Later the four spans were removed to different locations in the area.^[2] It crosses West Creek, a tributary to the Republican River.

As of 2010, the bridge is open to one-lane automobile traffic on a low-maintenance county road.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Larry Jochims (September 20, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination". National Park Service. Retrieved November 27, 2017. With eight photos from 1985.

Historic Bridges of the United States (with photos and map) http://bridgehunter.com/ks/cloud/county-line/

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