Bolivia Road Bridge

Built in 1901. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Bolivia Road Bridge is a truss bridge near Bolivia, Illinois, which formerly carried Bolivia Road across the Sangamon River. The bridge's main span is a Parker through truss, and the structure also includes a pony truss and several I-beam trusses.”
Wikipedia article Bolivia Road Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Sangamon County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure · built in 1901.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Axross the North Fork of the Sangamon R., Bolivia, 62545
When was it listed? January 2004
Category. structure
Township. Lanesville township
When was it built? 1901
National Register reference number. 03001464 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bolivia Road Bridge: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Burkhart Dredge & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
	F.F. Mengel Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sangamon County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Joseph Ross House	5.5 miles	2006
	Joseph Miller House	5.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001464 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sangamon County	All 68 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.