County Line Bowstring Explained

County Line Bowstring
Location:Cloud County, Republic County
Nearest City:Wayne, Kansas
Coordinates:39.6539°N -97.5731°W
Built:1876
Builder:Wrought Iron Bridge Company
Architect:Phoenix Bridge Co.
Architecture:Bowstring pony truss
Added:January 4, 1990
Refnum:89002192

The County Line Bowstring is a bridge located near unincorporated Hollis, Kansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 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 80feet long and 16feet wide.[1]

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.[1] 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.

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  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=89002192}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination ]. National Park Service. Larry Jochims . September 20, 1989 . November 27, 2017. With .