Burt County Missouri River Bridge
bridge in Burt County
The Burt County Missouri River Bridge is a continuous truss bridge over the Missouri River connecting Burt County, Nebraska and Monona County, Iowa at Decatur, Nebraska.
The bridge connects Nebraska Highway 51 and Iowa Highway 175. Interstate 29 is 7 miles east and Onawa, Iowa 8 miles east of the Missouri River.
The bridge was finished in 1951 and carried the first traffic in 1955 after the US Army Corps of Engineers diverted the river to flow under the bridge. In late 2013, it became toll free under the joint ownership of the states of Nebraska and Iowa; up to that time, it had been one of three toll bridges in Nebraska.
“Burt County Missouri River Bridge” enters the record as bridge in Burt County. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Burt, County and Missouri can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Burt County Missouri River Bridge” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Burt, County and Missouri provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5000686. Authority coordinates are 42.007, -96.242. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1955 and 2013.
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This entry incorporates text from “Burt County Missouri River Bridge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.