Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.

19th Street Bridge, from 1888, now a pedestrian bridge

The Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., also known as Missouri Valley Bridge Company, was a firm that built many bridges. Several are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.^[1][2]

Works (attribution) include:

• 19th Street Bridge, built 1888, 19th St., Denver, CO (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Chevelon Creek Bridge, Chevelon Creek, SE of Winslow, Winslow, AZ (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Cottonwood River Bridge, KS 177, N edge of Cottonwood Falls, Cottonwood Falls, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Cottonwood River Pratt Truss Bridge, Main St., 0.8 mi. W of int with 1st St., Cedar Point, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Crooked River Railroad Bridge (Oregon, 1911)
• Delaware River Warren Truss Bridge, Coyote Rd., 190th St., 4.1 mi. S, 0.5 mi. E of Fairview, Fairview, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• East Fork Wolf Creek Pratt Truss Bridge, W 290th Dr., 0.8 mi. E of jct. with S. 50th Ave., 2.0 mi. S and 4.0 mi. E of Cheyenne, Delhi, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Eleventh Street Arkansas River Bridge, US 66 over the Arkansas R., from Tulsa to W. Tulsa, Tulsa, OK (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Fish Creek Bridge, AZ 88, milepost 223.50, Tortilla Flat, AZ (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Hobbs Creek Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge, On Hobbs Creek Rd., 0.6 mi. W of jct with Solomon Rd., Gypsum, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Labo Del Rio Bridge, Cty. Rd. F40 over Piedra River, Arboles, CO (Missouri Valley Bridge Company), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Lakewood Park Bridge, One Lakewood Dr., 0.01 mi. N of jct. with Iron Ave., Salina, KS (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Lewis and Clark Bridge, Over the Missouri R., MT 13, Wolf Point, MT (Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Ninth Street Bridge, E of new 9th Street bridge, over Boise R., Boise, ID (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• Nodaway River Bridge, Pedestrian path in Pilot Grove County Park, Grant, IA (Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• South Canon Bridge, Cty. Rd. 134, Glenwood Springs, CO (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]
• State Bridge, Off CO 131, State Bridge, CO (Missouri Valley Bridge Company), NRHP-listed^[2]
• State Highway 3 Bridge at the Nueces River, US 90, 13 mi. E of jct. with Kinney Cnty., Uvalde, TX (Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.), NRHP-listed^[2]

Another bridge erected by the company, but not NRHP-listed, is the Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge, an approximately 3,000-foot (910 m) railroad bridge across the Columbia River, built in 1911 and opened in January 1912.^[3] The steel superstructure was manufactured by the Pennsylvania Steel Company and erected by MVB&I.^[3]

During World War II the company opened two shipyards, at Evansville, Indiana (where 171 LSTs were built before the yard closed in 1945),^[4] and at Leavenworth, Kansas. The company ranked 98th among United States corporations in the value of World War II military production contracts.^[5] The Leavenworth yard built a wide range of smaller naval and military vessels, continuing in business after the war, producing mainly towboats and barges until 1982.^[6]

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