State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek

State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek
Texas State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek
Coordinates29°30′05″N 98°11′11″W / 29.5014°N 98.1864°W / 29.5014; -98.1864
CarriesInterstate 10 north frontage road
CrossesCibolo Creek
LocaleSchertz, TX
OwnerState Highway Agency
Maintained byState Highway Agency
ID number150150002502011[1]
Characteristics
DesignSteel Truss - Thru
Total length132.3 metres (434 ft)
Width7.9 metres (26 ft)
Longest span36.6 metres (120 ft)
Clearance above4.83 metres (15.8 ft)
History
Opened1933
Statistics
Daily traffic160
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek is located in Texas
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek is located in the United States
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek
State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek
Nearest citySchertz, Texas
Arealess than one acre
Built1932 (1932)
Built byD.F. Jones Construction Co., Houston Structural Steel Co., et al.
Architectural styleParker through truss bridge
MPSHistoric Bridges of Texas MPS
NRHP reference No.96001112[2]
Added to NRHPOctober 10, 1996
Location
Map
Interactive map of State Highway 3-A Bridge at Cibolo Creek

Texas State Highway 3-A was one of the first original state highways proposed in 1917.[2]

History

The original northern route of this road had split off at Houston and roughly paralleled it northward through La Grange and ended at San Marcos. By 1919, the route had changed somewhat by moving further north from La Grange through Bastrop and ending in Austin. By 1933, this routing had been renumbered as SH 71.

Illustration of a Parker truss bridge.

Texas State Highway 3-A was reassigned to an alternate routing number of SH 3, which was under construction in Seguin and upon completion would run between San Antonio and Waelder. A Parker through truss bridge was built to cross the Cibolo Creek between Seguin and San Antonio around 1932.

By 1938, the route was limited to the section between Seguin, Texas and Waelder, and in 1939 became the main routing of SH 3 when the original SH 3 was transferred to U.S. Route 90.

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