Burwell Bridge

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Burwell Bridge

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| location= NE 11 over the N. Loup R., Burwell, Nebraska

| coordinates={{coord|41.767778|N|99.125278|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Nebraska#USA

| built = 1940-41

| architect = Nebraska Bureau of Roads & Bridges

|builder=W.A. Biba Engineering Company

| architecture = Steel stringer bridge

| added = June 29, 1992

| delisted = March 25, 2019

| area = less than one acre

| mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64500389.pdf Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS]

| refnum = 92000715{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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The Burwell Bridge was a historic bridge on the northern edge of Burwell in Garfield County, Nebraska which was built in 1940–41. It was a steel girder bridge that brings Nebraska Highway 11 over the North Loup River. It is also known as the North Loup River Bridge and denoted as NEHBS Number GFOO-13. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, and was delisted in 2019.

It was designed by the Nebraska Bureau of Roads & Bridges to replace the previous bridge which had been washed out by floodwaters on June 25, 1939. The bridge is at a 30 degree skew over the river. It has a roadway {{convert|24|ft|m}} wide. It has three spans with total span length of {{convert|110|ft|m}} and total bridge length of {{convert|290|ft|m}}. The center span is {{convert|73|ft|m}}. It has concrete abutments, wingwalls and spill-through piers. It has a concrete deck over steel stringers. It was built by contractor W.A. Biba Engineering Company of Geneva, Nebraska at cost of $44,763.28, using steel from Omaha Steel Works.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=92000715}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Burwell Bridge / North Loup River Bridge; NEHBS Number GFOO-13 |publisher=National Park Service|author=Clayton B. Fraser |date=June 30, 1991 |access-date=May 11, 2017 }} With {{NRHP url|id=92000715|photos=y|title=photo from 1989}}.

According to its NRHP registration, the bridge was deemed notable as one of "the longest cantilevered beam structures identified in the statewide bridge inventory. It is technologically significant for its representation of long-span beam bridge experimentation conducted by the state engineer's office in the 1930s."{{rp|3}}

File:Burwell, Nebraska Hwy 11 bridge from SW 1.JPG

By 2010, however, the bridge appeared to have been replaced by a new reinforced concrete and girder bridge.Note supporting piers are different from {{NRHP url|id=92000715|photos=y|title=NRHP document photo from 1989}}; note wingwalls are gone; note bridge deck and railing differ. Uglybridges.com, a website which uses National Bridge Inventory data, reports the bridge was reconstructed in 2007 and now has a {{convert|44.0|ft|m}} wide roadway, with total deck width {{convert|46.9|ft|m}}. It has a concrete cast-in-place deck.{{cite web|url=http://uglybridges.com/1356342 |title=N11/N91 over NORTH LOUP RIVER |publisher=UglyBridges.Com |access-date=May 13, 2017}}