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Cook Road Bridge
Photos
Contextual View Of Bridge In Setting, From Downstream, View To North Along Dry Creek
Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #224906
Description
The Dry Creek Bridge on Cook Road is the oldest known unmodified metal truss bridge in California erected by the San Francisco Bridge Company. This Pratt through truss bridge was determined eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Place under Criterion C at the local level of significance.-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Dry Creek on Cook Road
- Location
- Amador County, California
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1895, Replaced Ca. 1995
- Builder
- - San Francisco Bridge Co. of San Francisco, California (Contractor)
- Design
- Pin-connected Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 126.0 ft.
Total length: 146.4 ft.
Deck width: 17.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.32667, -120.99167 (decimal degrees)
38°19'36" N, 120°59'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/675549/4243968 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ione
- Inventory number
- BH 51222 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER CA-172 - Dry Creek Bridge, Spanning Dry Creek at Cook Road, Ione, Amador County, CA
Comments
Cook Road Bridge
According to this: http://www.bridgeofweek.com/2013/04/amador-county-california... this bridge was moved. Here's the page to the bridge they believe it is:
© Copyright 2002-19, James Baughn and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/amador/dry-creek/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/amador/dry-creek/
It is the same bridge: http://www.recordnet.com/article/19960729/A_NEWS/307299982