Heavy flooding washed out 27 bridges and culverts in Crawford County in May 1945.

The county board of supervisors used emergency funds to build new bridges.

The bowstring arch-truss structures appear to have been designed by H. Gene McKeown, a civil engineer from Council Bluffs.

This bridge is one several similar structures built in the county, and one of five that still remain.

This article about a property in Crawford County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.