Built between 1968 and 1977, the four-lane arched truss span provides a western Ohio River crossing for the Interstate 275 beltway around the Cincinnati area.

The Markland Locks and Dam, which carries Indiana State Road 101 and Kentucky Route 1039, is 40 miles (64 km) south and west of the Cropper Bridge.

He was born in a farm house near Bullittsburg Baptist Church in 1897 and graduated from Burlington High School in 1916.

He served in World War I and after returning settled on his family farm, eventually becoming a cashier at the Boone County Deposit Bank.

The position Cropper held is the equivalent of today's county judge/executive; prior to voters' approval of the Judicial Reform Amendment to the state constitution in 1975, and its full implementation at the start of 1978, county judges in Kentucky also had judicial powers.