Rainbow Bridge ( Texas ) - wikipedia Rainbow Bridge ( Texas ) Rainbow Bridge U.S. National Register of Historic Places Westbound approach to Rainbow Bridge Location TX 87 at the Jefferson and Orange County line Coordinates 29 ° 58 ′ 47 '' N 93 ° 52 ′ 18 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 29.97972 ° N 93.87167 ° W ﻿ / 29.97972 ; - 93.87167 Coordinates : 29 ° 58 ′ 47 '' N 93 ° 52 ′ 18 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 29.97972 ° N 93.87167 ° W ﻿ / 29.97972 ; - 93.87167 Built 1936 NRHP reference # 96001127 Added to NRHP October 10, 1996 Rainbow Bridge at Sunset Westbound approach to Rainbow Bridge in Orange County, TX. Looking at Rainbow Bridge on its northwest side in Port Arthur, Jefferson County, TX. Driving eastbound on the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Jefferson County, TX. The Rainbow Bridge is a through truss bridge crossing the Neches River in Southeast Texas just upstream from Sabine Lake. It allows State Highway 87 and State Highway 73 to connect Port Arthur in Jefferson County on the southwest bank of the river with Bridge City in Orange County on the northeast bank. Construction on the bridge began in 1936 under the guidance of the Texas State Highway Department. Due to concerns by the upstream city of Beaumont about the bridge posing a threat to ship navigation, the Rainbow Bridge was built with a 680 foot ( 210 m ) main span. In addition, it has a vertical clearance of 177.0 feet ( 54 m ), which was intended to allow what was at the time the tallest ship in the US Navy, the USS Patoka, passage under the bridge ( however, the Patoka never did ). However, the height of the bridge did allow the construction of jack up offshore drilling rigs at the Bethlehem Steel Beaumont Shipyard. With seventy - two ( 72 ) rigs built, the shipyard was one of the major sources of offshore rigs built in the United States. The bridge was completed on September 8, 1938. The nearby town of Prairie View took on the name `` Bridge City '' in response. Initially named the Port Arthur - Orange Bridge, it received its current name in 1957. The bridge was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Veterans Memorial Bridge In 1988, construction began on the Veterans Memorial Bridge, a cable - stayed bridge. This bridge runs parallel to the Rainbow Bridge, and was dedicated on September 8, 1990. With a vertical clearance of 143 feet ( 43.5 m ), the bridge is somewhat shorter than its neighbor. After the completion of the Veterans Memorial Bridge, the Rainbow Bridge was closed for renovations. On its re-opening in 1997, the Rainbow Bridge became one way, handling westbound traffic only. The Veterans Memorial Bridge serves eastbound traffic. Notes Jump up ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20061007061958/http://www.dot.state.tx.us/insdtdot/geninfo.htm?pg=facts Jump up ^ `` Drilling Rigs Built in U.S. Shipyards ''. ShipbuildingHistory.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015. Jump up ^ `` History of Our Bridges ''. City of Bridge City. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 14. Jump up ^ `` Bridge City Texas ''. Ohwy.com. Retrieved 2011 - 08 - 19. Jump up ^ http://memim.com/rainbow-bridge-texas.html Jump up ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20060322150854/http://www.dot.state.tx.us/mcd/onestop/const/beaumont.htm Sources Rainbow Bridge in the Handbook of Texas Rainbow Bridge at Structurae Historic American Engineering Record ( HAER ) No. TX - 43, `` Rainbow Bridge '' Port Arthur, Texas Areas Griffing Park Lakeview Pear Ridge Port Acres Sabine Pass Primary and secondary schools Port Arthur ISD Memorial HS Nederland ISD Port Neches - Groves ISD Sabine Pass ISD Bob Hope School Community colleges Lamar State College -- Port Arthur Galveston College ( for Sabine Pass ISD residents ) Transportation Rainbow Bridge Jack Brooks Regional Airport ( northeast of the city ) Landmarks Museum of the Gulf Coast This list is incomplete. National Register of Historic Places in Texas Lists by county Anderson Andrews Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bee Bell Bexar Blanco Borden Bosque Bowie Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Caldwell Calhoun Callahan Cameron Camp Carson Cass Castro Chambers Cherokee Childress Clay Cochran Coke Coleman Collin Collingsworth Colorado Comal Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crockett Crosby Culberson Dallam Dallas Dawson Deaf Smith Delta Denton DeWitt Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland Ector Edwards El Paso Ellis Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Foard Fort Bend Franklin Freestone Frio Gaines Galveston Garza Gillespie Glasscock Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Hardeman Hardin Harris Harrison Hartley Haskell Hays Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo Hill Hockley Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hudspeth Hunt Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jim Hogg Jim Wells Johnson Jones Karnes Kaufman Kendall Kenedy Kent Kerr Kimble King Kinney Kleberg Knox La Salle Lamar Lamb Lampasas Lavaca Lee Leon Liberty Limestone Lipscomb Live Oak Llano Loving Lubbock Lynn Madison Marion Martin Mason Matagorda Maverick McCulloch McLennan McMullen Medina Menard Midland Milam Mills Mitchell Montague Montgomery Moore Morris Motley Nacogdoches Navarro Newton Nolan Nueces Ochiltree Oldham Orange Palo Pinto Panola Parker Parmer Pecos Polk Potter Presidio Rains Randall Reagan Real Red River Reeves Refugio Roberts Robertson Rockwall Runnels Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto San Patricio San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shackelford Shelby Sherman Smith Somervell Starr Stephens Sterling Stonewall Sutton Swisher Tarrant Taylor Terrell Terry Throckmorton Titus Tom Green Travis Trinity Tyler Upshur Upton Uvalde Val Verde Van Zandt Victoria Walker Waller Ward Washington Webb Wharton Wheeler Wichita Wilbarger Willacy Williamson Wilson Winkler Wise Wood Yoakum Young Zapata Zavala National Parks Big Bend National Park Guadalupe Mountains National Park Other lists Bridges National Historic Landmarks National Natural Landmarks Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks United States National Register of Historic Places listings Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rainbow_Bridge_(Texas)&oldid=804101028 '' Categories : Bridges completed in 1938 Bridges completed in 1990 Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Texas Buildings and structures in Orange County, Texas Cable - stayed bridges in the United States Truss bridges in the United States Historic American Engineering Record in Texas Transportation in Jefferson County, Texas Transportation in Orange County, Texas Road bridges in Texas National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Texas Steel bridges in the United States Hidden categories : Coordinates on Wikidata Structurae ID not in Wikidata Talk About Wikipedia Deutsch Қазақша தமிழ் Edit links This page was last edited on 6 October 2017, at 18 : 59. 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Question: where is the rainbow bridge located in texas
Answer: TX 87 at the Jefferson and Orange County line