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The Davenport Skybridge is a pedestrian cable-stayed bridge [5] that spans River Drive in downtown Davenport, Iowa. It connects LeClaire Park to a courtyard and parking ramp on 2nd Street, located near the River Music Experience. The bridge, completed in 2005, is 50 feet (15 m) tall, 575 feet (175 m) long, and features 99 feet (30 m) columns.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.44 square miles (14.09 km 2), of which 5.36 square miles (13.88 km 2) is land and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km 2) is water. [10] Iowa Falls is located at the point where the Iowa River flows through a limestone gorge 70 feet (21.34 m) deep between bluffs that rise ...
Longer bridges can reduce the width of both shoulders to 4 feet (1.2 m). Existing bridges can remain part of the Interstate system if they have at least 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) lanes with 3.5-foot (1.1 m) shoulder on the left and a 10-foot (3.0 m) shoulder on the right, except that longer bridges can have 3.5 feet (1.1 m) shoulders on both sides.
Rock Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Lyon County, Iowa, United States. [2] The population was 2,611 in the 2020 census , an increase from 2,573 in the 2000 census . [ 3 ]
The proposed highway was to run from Illinois Route 80 near Port Byron, Illinois, which ran along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, over a new bridge into Iowa. It would then span 298 miles (480 km) across the state to the South Omaha Bridge where US 275 crossed the Missouri River. [50] The entire route was to be near US 6 across the ...
The geography of Iowa includes the study of bedrock, landforms, ... Nearly 22 miles in diameter, [2] ... 41.3 (5.2) Mean minimum °F (°C) −7.8
Hawkeye Point is the highest natural point in Iowa at 1,670 feet (510 m). [1] It is approximately 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of Sibley on the eastern side of SR 60 and approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of the Iowa-Minnesota state border. The high ground lies 100 feet (30 m) due south of an old silo.
William S. Lee was a wealthy New Yorker who came to Sioux Rapids in 1858, staked a very early claim, and soon controversially acquired around 60,000 acres of “swamp land” at 16¢ per acre. For this he was contracted to build a courthouse and construct a bridge over the Little Sioux River, but never did.