Rattlesnake Creek Bridge

The Rattlesnake Creek Bridge brings a Cuming County, Nebraska county road over Rattlesnake Creek, 2.8 miles northwest of Bancroft.  It was built in 1903 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

The road was gravel-surfaced in 1992.

It is a steel Pratt half-hip pony truss bridge, and the oldest known example of this type designed by the Standard Bridge Company of Omaha and built throughout eastern Nebraska.  The bridge is  long in total, with a single span of  and a roadway width of .

It was one of 60 new or rebuilt bridges in a bridge-building program started in 1903 by Cuming County.  The Standard Bridge Company had an annual contract with Cuming, Wayne, Thurston, Stanton, Dodge and Burt counties and built hundreds of half-hip truss bridges during 1900-1920;  this one is the oldest documented example.

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Category:Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska
Category:Bridges completed in 1903
Category:Buildings and structures in Cuming County, Nebraska
Category:Transportation in Cuming County, Nebraska
Category:Steel bridges in the United States
Category:Pratt truss bridges in the United States
Category:Road bridges in Nebraska