San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock

San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock
LocationUS 666 over San Juan R., Shiprock, New Mexico
Coordinates36°46′53″N 108°41′31″W / 36.781277°N 108.692046°W / 36.781277; -108.692046
Arealess than one acre
Built1937
Architectural styleParker through truss
MPSHistoric Highway Bridges of New Mexico MPS
NRHP reference No.97000740[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 15, 1997

The San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock, in Shiprock, New Mexico, is a Parker through truss bridge built in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1]

It is a six-span Parker through truss steel bridge fabricated by W.E. Bondurant. It brought U.S. Highway 64 and U.S. Route 666 (now called US Route 491]) over a broad floodplain of the San Juan River.[2]

From the late 1950s on, when a parallel steel beam bridge was built adjacent to it, it has carried westbound and southbound traffic.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b David Kammer (December 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: San Juan River Bridge at Shiprock / NMSHTD #1792". National Park Service. Retrieved July 5, 2019. With accompanying three photos from 1984