Cavitt Creek Bridge

Bridge in Oregon, United States

43°14′38.8″N 123°01′19.2″W / 43.244111°N 123.022000°W / 43.244111; -123.022000^[1]CarriesCavitt Creek RoadCrossesLittle RiverLocaleDouglas County, Oregon, United StatesOther name(s)Little River Covered BridgeMaintained byDouglas CountyCharacteristicsDesignCovered Howe trussTotal length70 feet (21 m)HistoryConstructed byFloyd C. FrearOpened1943Location Map

Cavitt Creek Bridge is a covered bridge in Douglas County in the U.S. state of Oregon.^[1] Built by Floyd C. Frear in 1943, it carries Cavitt Creek Road over the Little River^[2] about 20 miles (32 km) east of Roseburg.^[3] Cavitt Creek and the road and bridge were named for Robert L. Cavitt, who settled along the creek in the mid-19th century.^[3]

Cavitt Creek, a tributary of the Little River, enters the river upstream of the bridge.^[4] Cavitt Creek Road, after crossing Jim Creek, another Little River tributary,^[4] intersects Little River Road at the north end of the bridge.^[1] The bridge is a little more than a mile upstream of the small community of Peel and 7 miles (11 km) upstream of the Little River's confluence with the North Umpqua River near Glide.^[4]

Notable Features

Tudor portal arches allow room for log trucks, unhewn timbers for truss chords, three windows on each side, a metal roof, and long narrow slits above each truss for better lighting and ventilation.^[1]
The bridge was part of a thematic nomination of Oregon's covered bridges in 1979, but Douglas County blocked the listing.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Little River (Cavitt Creek) Covered Bridge" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
^ Smith, Dwight A.; Norman, James B.; Dykman, Pieter T. (1989) [1986]. Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon (2nd ed.). Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 297. ISBN 0-87595-205-4.
^ ^a ^b McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 181. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
^ ^a ^b ^c "United States Topographic Map". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved March 22, 2016 – via Acme Mapper. The map includes mile markers along the Little River.