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Big Creek Ditch AR 226 Bridge

Craighead County, Arkansas
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Photo provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department

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Street View 

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Facts 

Overview
Pony truss bridge over Big Creek Ditch (Bayou Deview) on AR 226
Location
Craighead County, Arkansas
Status
Open to two-lane traffic
Future prospects
Scheduled for replacement 2010
History
Built 1928 by Bunnell & Mack of Paragould
Design
Polygonal Warren pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 89.9 ft.
Total length: 191.9 ft.
Deck width: 24.6 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.79307, -90.83925   (decimal degrees)
35°47'35" N, 90°50'21" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/695265/3963151 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Herman
Inventory numbers
AHTD M2407 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
BH 10298 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 05/2011)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 5.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
2,700

Categories 

Arkansas (1,219)
Built 1928 (805)
Built during 1920s (7,031)
Craighead County, Arkansas (7)
Doomed (786)
Have street view (9,883)
NR-eligible (3,749)
Open (28,302)
Owned by state (9,806)
 Polygonal Warren pony truss (356)
Polygonal Warren truss (739)
Pony truss (13,215)
Skewed (4,080)
Span length 75-100 feet (4,718)
Structurally deficient (16,677)
Total length 175-250 feet (2,789)
Truss (23,562)
Warren truss (3,956)

Update Log 

  • March 4, 2011: New Street View added by J.P.
  • August 23, 2008: Updated history
  • February 19, 2005: Posted new photos

Sources 

  • AHTD
  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Big Creek Ditch AR 226 Bridge
Posted July 11, 2008, by Randall Houp (ghostbridgehunter [at] yahoo [dot] comV)

Visited and photographed this bridge on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Bridge in really good shape, but scheduled to be moved to a new home in 2010. The new interstate is being built west of Jonesboro and Arkansas 226 is to be widened. Several newspaper accounts of this bridge and its sister bridge to the west on Arkansas 226 have appeared in several Arkansas newspapers; (Little Rock, Ft. Smith, Jonesboro, etc...). Glad to see these hisitoric bridges to be saved and continued to be used. Bridge quite eay to photograph and find. Road frequently travelled.