Boone Bridge 2

Wagon Wheel Bridge
Location 1000 200th St. over the Des Moines River
Nearest city Boone, Iowa
Coordinates 42°03′47″N 93°58′13″W / 42.06306°N 93.97028°W / 42.06306; -93.97028Coordinates: 42°03′47″N 93°58′13″W / 42.06306°N 93.97028°W / 42.06306; -93.97028
Area less than one acre
Built 1910
Built by Iowa Bridge Company
Architectural style Pennsylvania truss
Pratt truss
Demolished 2016
MPS Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS
NRHP Reference # 98000765[1]
Added to NRHP June 25, 1998

The Wagon Wheel Bridge[2] is located west of Boone, Iowa, United States. It spans the Des Moines River for 703 feet (214 m).[3] The Boone Commercial Association and the Boone County Board of Supervisors disagreed over the location of a new wagon bridge over the river. The county wanted the new bridge west from Eighth Street in Boone, closer to the Chicago and North Western Railroad's Boone Viaduct. The businessmen wanted to rebuild the Incline Bridge. The dispute was resolved when the Commercial association offered to buy the Incline Bridge. The county contracted with the Iowa Bridge Company to design and build the bridge, which was completed in 1910 for $77,900.[3] The bridge consists of a long-span Pennsylvania truss over the main channel of the river and three Pratt trusses over the floodplain. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1] In March 2016, a span of the bridge collapsed into the Des Moines River after ice from a broken ice dam damaged one of the piers.[4] The collapsed span was removed in June 2016.[5]

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