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[[Image: Interstate_Canal_Bridge.jpg |thumb|right|upright=1.0|alt=Interstate_Canal_Bridge.jpg |Interstate Canal Bridge]]

==Interstate Canal Bridge ==

NRHP Reference #: [https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/92000731 92000731]

NRHP Listing Date: 19920629

==Location==
9.3 mi N of Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska

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==Summary==
This bridge carries a gravel-surfaced county road across the Interstate Canal north of Scottsbluff. Although the structure's history is largely undocumented, it was probably built as a result of a resolution by the Scotts Bluff County Commissioners. Dated April 20, 1915, the resolution required canal owners to construct bridges where county roads intersected their ditches and canals. Subject to the approval of the road overseer or the county commissioners, these structures were to have been built within thirty days of the resolution. Detailed and configured similarly to three other canal bridges in Scotts Bluff County, this truss bears the earmarks of a circa 1915 structure. Although Nebraska's counties were required by the state legislature in 1913 to use standard twenty-ton capacity designs, the canal companies were not. Most such companies built timber pile bridges. Typically poorly constructed, these small-scale structures either collapsed or were later replaced by the counties with more substantial spans. The Interstate Canal Bridge and the three other trusses in Scotts Bluff County are the only known examples in the state of steel truss erection by the canal companies.

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