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Facts
- Overview
- Deck truss bridge over Locust Creek Ditch carrying CR 988 (formerly CR 513) east of Dixie, just off AR 135
- Location
- Craighead County, Arkansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1942
- Design
- Warren deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 83.0 ft.
Total length: 143.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.7 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 1995
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.92000, -90.42306 (decimal degrees)
35°55'12" N, 90°25'23" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- AHTD 12149 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
NRHP 95000614 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 10302 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 11/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 20.2 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1987)
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Dixie Bridge
I LEARNED TO SWIM BY BEING THROWN OFF THIS BRIDGE, IN THE EARLY FIFTIES, BY TWO OF MY BROTHERS, MARLIN , AND DAVID AND FRIENDS, (IT TOOK5), LOTS OF MEMORIES HERE, WE FARMED JUST WEST OF THE BRIDGE ON LAND THAT JOINED LOCUST CREEK,THERE WERE TWO FAMLIES LIVED ACROSS THE BRIDGE ON NEWTON ISLAND THE RILEY IRWIN FAMILY,JUST BELOW THIS BRIDGE ONE OF THE LARGEST BAPTISINGS WAS HELD HERE IN 1953 , BY REV BILLY KING , AND GW ENDICOTTS FATHER ,
Dixie Bridge
I love this old bridge, I guess I should, I've jumped, fished, and threw rocks off it a hundred times.
Dixie Bridge
I love this old bridge, I guess I should, I've jumped, fished, and threw rocks off it a hundred times.