List of bridges in the United States


List of bridges in the United States


This is a list of the major current and former bridges in the United States. For a more expansive list, see List of bridges in the United States by state.

Major bridges

This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the road and railway bridges with spans greater than 300 metres (984 ft).



Former major bridges

This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the former road and railway bridges with spans greater than 300 metres (984 ft).


See also

Other lists of U.S. bridges
  • By height
  • By state
  • By city
    • Boston
    • New York City
    • Pittsburgh
    • Portland, Maine
    • Portland, Oregon
    • Seattle
  • Cable-stayed bridges
  • Covered bridges
  • List of toll bridges § United States
  • Category:Lists of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record
  • Category:Lists of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Category:Lists of river crossings in the United States
Other topics
  • Transport in the United States
  • Rail transportation in the United States
  • High-speed rail in the United States
  • Commuter rail in North America
  • Numbered highways in the United States
  • Geography of the United States
  • National Bridge Inventory

Notes and references

  • Notes

Further reading

Bibliography
  • Adams, Kramer A. (1963). Covered Bridges of the West; a History and Illustrated Guide: Washington, Oregon, California. Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books. LCCN 63-19906. OCLC 1029044555.
  • Bottenberg, Ray (2007). Bridges of Portland. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-4876-0. LCCN 2006935600.
  • Bridge Aesthetics Around the World. National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. 1991. ISBN 9780309050722.
  • Brown, David J. (1998). Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature. London: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 1-85732-163-4. OCLC 1193368859.
  • Chen, Wai-Fah; Duan, Lian (2014). "Bridge Engineering in the United States". In CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (ed.). Handbook of International Bridge Engineering. CRC Press. pp. 43–133. ISBN 978-1-4398-1029-3.
  • Creighton, Peet (1966). The first book of bridges. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc. OCLC 1034684565.
  • Hayden, Martin (1976). The Book of Bridges. New York: Galahad Books. ISBN 0-88365-358-3. OCLC 1148023825.
  • Hyde, Charles K. (1993). Historic Highway Bridges of Michigan. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2448-7.
  • Jackson, Donald C. (1988). Great American Bridges and Dams, A National Trust Guide. Washington D.C.: The Preservation Press. ISBN 0-89133-129-8.
  • Le Rond, Louis (1896). Les Travaux Publics de l'Amérique du Nord - Ponts et Viaducs [Public Works of North America - Bridges and Viaducts] (in French). Paris: J. Rothschild.
  • Mahmoud, Khaled M. (October 20–21, 2003). Recent developments in bridge engineering - Proceedings of the Second New York City Bridge Conference. CRC Press - Taylor & Francis. ISBN 90-5809-606-8.
  • Mensch, Ernest Cromwell (1935). The Golden Gate bridge: a technical description in ordinary language. San Francisco. p. 4. LCCN 36000775. OCLC 1045570112. OL 6332236M.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Nelson, Lee H. (1976). A Century of Oregon Covered Bridges, 1851-1952. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society. OCLC 1245629802. SBN 87595-011-6.
  • Petroski, Henry (1995). Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0-679-43939-0. OCLC 1034668891.
  • Prade, Marcel (1990). "Les États-Unis d'Amérique". Les Grands Ponts du Monde: Ponts Remarquables Hors d'Europe [The Great Bridges of the World: Remarkable Bridges Outside Europe]. Art et patrimoine (in French). Poitiers: Brissaud. pp. 87–163. ISBN 2-902170-68-8.
  • Rastorfer, Darl (2000). Six Bridges: The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300080476.
  • Reier, Sharon (2000). The Bridges of New York. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486412306.
  • Scott, Richard (2001). In the Wake of Tacoma: Suspension Bridges and the Quest for Aerodynamic Stability. ASCE Press - American Society of Civil Engineers. ISBN 0-7844-0542-5.
  • Seibel, George A. (1991). Bridges over the Niagara Gorge : Rainbow Bridge, 50 years, 1941-1991. Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. ISBN 0-9695125-0-3. LCCN 92100416. OL 1755790M.
  • Spangenburg, Ray; Moser, Diane K. (1991). The Story of America's Bridges. New York: Fact On File. ISBN 0-8160-2259-3. OCLC 1036886436.
  • Suspension Bridges : a Century of Progress. Trenton, New Jersey: John A. Roebling's Sons Company. 1934.
  • Troyano, Leonardo Fernández (2003). Bridge Engineering. A Global Perspective. London: Thomas Telford Publishing. ISBN 0-7277-3215-3.
  • Waddell, John Alexander Low (1916). John Wiley & Sons (ed.). Bridge engineering. Vol. 1 (1st ed.). London. LCCN 16014846. OL 23282798M.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Papers
  • Lund, Elaine; Hooks, Kisa; Deming, Joan (December 2012). "The Historic Highway Bridges of Florida" (PDF). Florida Department of Transportation - Archaeological Consultants, Inc.
  • Subcommittee on seismic performance of bridges (1995). "Seismic performance of long-span suspension bridges in the USA". IABSE Symposium - E-periodica.ch. San Francisco: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering: 573–578. doi:10.5169/seals-55242.
  • Smith, Dwight A.; Norman, James B.; Dykman, Pieter T. (1985). "Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation.
  • "The Bridges of New York" (PDF). Modern Steel Construction. Vol. 12, no. 3. American Institute of Steel Construction. 1972. pp. 3–11. ISSN 0026-8445.

External links

  • "Bridges & Structures". Fhwa.dot.gov - U.S. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration.
  • Baughn, James. "A Database of Historic Bridges in the United States". Bridgehunter.com. Historic Bridge Foundation.
  • "Brücken in der USA" [Bridges in USA]. Brueckenweb.de (in German).
  • Holth, Nathan. "Bridge Browser". Historicbridges.org.

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