Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.

19th Street Bridge, from 1888, now a pedestrian bridge

The Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., also known as Missouri Valley Bridge Company, was a firm that built many bridges. It was based in Leavenworth, Kansas, with a WWII facility in Evansville, Indiana.

National Register of Historic Places listed bridges

Many of the company's bridges are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[1][2] They include:

  • 19th Street Bridge, built 1888, 19th St., Denver, CO (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Cairo Mississippi River Bridge, built 1929, Cairo, Illinois to Bird's Point, Missouri (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.)
  • Chevelon Creek Bridge, Chevelon Creek, SE of Winslow, Winslow, AZ (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Cottonwood River Bridge, KS 177, N edge of Cottonwood Falls, Cottonwood Falls, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Cottonwood River Pratt Truss Bridge, Main St., 0.8 mi. W of int with 1st St., Cedar Point, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Crooked River Railroad Bridge (Oregon, 1911)
  • Delaware River Warren Truss Bridge, Coyote Rd., 190th St., 4.1 mi. S, 0.5 mi. E of Fairview, Fairview, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • East Fork Wolf Creek Pratt Truss Bridge, W 290th Dr., 0.8 mi. E of jct. with S. 50th Ave., 2.0 mi. S and 4.0 mi. E of Cheyenne, Delhi, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Eleventh Street Arkansas River Bridge, US 66 over the Arkansas R., from Tulsa to W. Tulsa, Tulsa, OK (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Fish Creek Bridge, AZ 88, milepost 223.50, Tortilla Flat, AZ (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Hobbs Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge, On Hobbs Creek Rd., 0.6 mi. W of jct with Solomon Rd., Gypsum, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Labo Del Rio Bridge, Cty. Rd. F40 over Piedra River, Arboles, CO (Missouri Valley Bridge Company), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Lakewood Park Bridge, One Lakewood Dr., 0.01 mi. N of jct. with Iron Ave., Salina, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Lewis and Clark Bridge, Over the Missouri R., MT 13, Wolf Point, MT (Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Ninth Street Bridge, E of new 9th Street bridge, over Boise R., Boise, ID (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Nodaway River Bridge, Pedestrian path in Pilot Grove County Park, Grant, IA (Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • South Canon Bridge, Cty. Rd. 134, Glenwood Springs, CO (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • State Bridge, Off CO 131, State Bridge, CO (Missouri Valley Bridge Company), NRHP-listed[2]
  • State Highway 3 Bridge at the Nueces River, US 90, 13 mi. E of jct. with Kinney Cnty., Uvalde, TX (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]
  • Waco Suspension Bridge, over Brazos River, Waco, TX (1914 rehabilitation by Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed[2]

Other projects

The Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge, a non−NRHP-listed one, was erected by the company across the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington. It is an approximately 3,000-foot (910 m) railroad bridge across the river, built in 1911 and opened in January 1912.[3] The steel superstructure was manufactured by the Pennsylvania Steel Company, and erected by MVB&I company.[3]

Shipyards

During World War II the MVB&I company opened two shipyards, at Evansville, Indiana and at Leavenworth, Kansas. 171 LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) were built during the war at Evansville, before the yard closed in 1945.[4] The company ranked 98th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.[5]

The Leavenworth yard built a wide range of smaller naval and military vessels, continuing in business after the war, producing mainly towboats and barges until 1982.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Vehicular Bridges in Colorado TR
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. 1 2 "Woman Christens Big Celilo Bridge" (January 6, 1912). The Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), p. 10.
  4. ↑ "Missouri Valley Bridge, Evansville IN". 15 October 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Peck, Merton J. & Scherer, Frederic M. The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Economic Analysis (1962) Harvard Business School p.619
  6. ↑ "Missouri Valley Bridge, Leavenworth KS". 9 June 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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