Facts
- Overview
- Two-span open-spandrel arch bridge over Shell Rock River on E. Main Avenue in Rockford
- Location
- Floyd County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1922; rehabilitated 1977
- Design
- Open-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 87.9 ft.
Total length: 176.2 ft.
Deck width: 24.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.05219, -92.94419 (decimal degrees)
43°03'08" N, 92°56'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- IA 10050 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 13515 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 03/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 17.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2001)
- 3,100
Comments
Rockford Bridge
Seeing this bridge brings back a lot of memories, for as a child I walked it every day and my uncle had a mill / dam and I would go there to fish or skip rocks. During the winter all the kids would ice skate. My uncle would take his tractor and plow the snow off by the bridge so the kids could skate all threw the wintertime. Keeping the snow off in “Iowa” was know easy job. Before this it was my parents turn. Swimming, fishing, and for the brave, jumping off. This is what it looks like now.
