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Pocahontas Bridge
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Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge with a center swing span over Black River on US 67 at Pocahontas
- Location
- Randolph County, Arkansas
- Status
- Open to two lanes of westbound traffic; eastbound traffic is carried by a parallel deck girder bridge
- History
- Built 1934 by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co., replacing an earlier through truss structure located closer to the railroad bridge. Parallel bridge built 1986.
- Builder
- - Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. of Des Moines, Iowa & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Design
- Swing Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 115.1 ft.
Total length: 1,253.6 ft.
Deck width: 23.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.2 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 9, 1990
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.25423, -90.96935 (decimal degrees)
36°15'15" N, 90°58'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/682440/4014058 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Pocahontas
- Inventory numbers
- AHTD 483 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
NRHP 90000522 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 10553 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 09/2011)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 26.6 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
- 11,500
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