Cavitt Creek Bridge

{{short description|Covered bridge in Oregon, US}}

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|name = Cavitt Creek Bridge

|image = Cavitt Bridge (Little River Bridge) (11126915656).jpg

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|caption = Cavitt Creek Bridge over the Little River

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|other_name = Little River Covered Bridge

|carries = Cavitt Creek Road

|crosses = Little River

|locale = Douglas County, Oregon, United States

|maint = Douglas County

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|design = Covered Howe truss

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|builder = Floyd C. Frear

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|open = 1943

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|coordinates = {{coord|43|14|38.8|N|123|01|19.2|W|region:US-OR_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

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Cavitt Creek Bridge is a covered bridge in Douglas County in the U.S. state of Oregon.{{cite web|title=Little River (Cavitt Creek) Covered Bridge|url=http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BRIDGE/docs/covbrdg/Descriptions/CavittCk.pdf|format=PDF|publisher=Oregon Department of Transportation|accessdate=March 22, 2016}} Built by Floyd C. Frear in 1943, it carries Cavitt Creek Road over the Little River{{cite book|author1=Smith, Dwight A.|author2=Norman, James B. |author-link2=James B. Norman |author3=Dykman, Pieter T.|title=Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon|publisher=Oregon Historical Society Press|location=Portland|edition=2nd|year=1989|origyear=1986|page=297|isbn=0-87595-205-4}} about {{convert|20|mi|km}} east of Roseburg. Cavitt Creek and the road and bridge were named for Robert L. Cavitt, who settled along the creek in the mid-19th century.{{cite book | last = McArthur | first = Lewis A. |author2=McArthur, Lewis L. | title = Oregon Geographic Names|edition=7th | publisher = Oregon Historical Society Press | year = 2003 |origyear=1928| location = Portland, Oregon | page = 181| isbn = 0-87595-277-1}}

Cavitt Creek, a tributary of the Little River, enters the river upstream of the bridge. Cavitt Creek Road, after crossing Jim Creek, another Little River tributary, intersects Little River Road at the north end of the bridge. The bridge is a little more than a mile upstream of the small community of Peel and {{convert|7|mi|km}} upstream of the Little River's confluence with the North Umpqua River near Glide.{{cite web|title=United States Topographic Map|publisher=United States Geological Survey|via=Acme Mapper|url=http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=43.244111,-123.022&z=15&t=T&marker0=43.244111,-123.022|accessdate=March 22, 2016}} The map includes mile markers along the Little River.