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Sutliff Bridge
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Sutliff Bridge after 2008 flooding
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| Location: | Sutliff Road over Cedar River |
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| Nearest city: | Sutliff, Iowa |
| Built: | 1897 |
| Architect: | G.W. Wynn; Jones & Laughlin Company |
| Architectural style: | Other |
| Governing body: | Local |
| MPS: | Highway Bridges of Iowa MPS |
| NRHP Reference#: |
98000520 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | May 15, 1998 |
The Sutliff Bridge is a bridge over the Cedar River at Sutliff, a Johnson County community near Lisbon,[2] Iowa, United States. A Parker truss bridge, it was built in 1897 and 1898 at a cost of approximately $12,000.[3] After a modern replacement was built over the Cedar in 1983, the bridge was slated for destruction, but it was ultimately saved,[4] and on May 15, 1998, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1] Although the bridge remained a celebrated location for locals and for visitors from across Iowa,[4] including a 5k foot race beloved as the “worst road race in America",[5] it succumbed to massive floods in the second week of June 2008: while the river normally flowed many feet below the bottom of the bridge,[3] the floods topped the bridge's deck, and one of the bridge's spans was washed away on June 13[6] as the surrounding countryside was inundated with vast amounts of water.[7] It is estimated that restoring the bridge will cost $1.7 million. Most of this money would come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), with the rest coming from donations and local governments; both FEMA and the Johnson County Board of Supervisors have agreed in principle to repair the bridge.[8]
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