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Nectar Covered Bridge

Blount County, Alabama
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Photo taken by Ben Tate in January 2011

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Overview
Lost covered bridge over Locust Fork River on Covered Bridge Road
Location
Nectar, Blount County, Alabama
Status
Destroyed by fire
History
Built 1932; Destroyed by arson 1993
Builder
- Zelmer & Forrest Tidwell
Design
Covered Town lattice through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 119.1 ft.
Total length: 367.1 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+33.95638, -86.62635   (decimal degrees)
33°57'23" N, 86°37'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/534523/3757382 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Nectar
Inventory number
BH 49415 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 02/1991)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1989)
220

Categories 

Alabama (508)
Blount County, Alabama (19)
Built 1932 (730)
Built during 1930s (8,575)
Covered (927)
Destroyed by fire (52)
Lattice through truss (202)
Lattice truss (269)
Lost (10,494)
Lost 1993 (381)
Lost during 1990s (3,227)
 NR-listed (2,355)
Nectar, Alabama (1)
Owned by county (16,526)
Span length 100-125 feet (3,307)
Structurally deficient (16,728)
Sufficiency rating zero (307)
Through truss (9,254)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,382)
Town lattice truss (116)
Truss (23,615)
Zelmer & Forrest Tidwell (4)

Update Log 

  • August 24, 2011: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builders
  • August 24, 2011: Added by Ben Tate

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Nectar Covered Bridge
Posted August 24, 2011, by Ben Tate

I've posted a bunch of links to photos of the bridge before it was burned down and one photo of the bridge where the ruins are still smoking. Maybe this will hold us over until Tony Dillon finds those pictures he took long ago.