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Big Creek Bridge

Henry County, Iowa

Map 

Description 

Landowner has put picnic tables on the bridge.

Facts 

Overview
Pratt through truss bridge over Big Creek on Old Road
Location
Henry County, Iowa
Status
In Use By Landowner
Builder
- Clinton Bridge & Iron Works of Clinton, Iowa
Design
Pratt through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.96238, -91.60463   (decimal degrees)
40°57'45" N, 91°36'17" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/617420/4535518 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Mount Pleasant
Inventory number
BH 63832 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1903 (623)
Built during 1900s (7,627)
Clinton Bridge & Iron Works (76)
Henry County, Iowa (52)
Iowa (6,789)
Open to authorized vehicles (353)
 Pin-connected (4,673)
Pratt through truss (6,042)
Pratt truss (10,276)
Through truss (16,704)
Truss (35,370)

Update Log 

  • April 19, 2022: Updated by Luke: Updated status per pictometry/photo from Facebook group
  • June 12, 2018: Updated by Luke: Corrected stream name
  • October 26, 2014: Added by Dave King

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Comments 

Big Creek Bridge
Posted December 21, 2018, by Clark Vance (cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com)

The 1958 Burlington 250,000 topo shows the road open.

Big Creek Bridge
Posted June 13, 2018, by Luke

It's a common theme for Google Maps to mis-name streams when they get close to their confluences.

On the subject of the NBI, is anyone opposed to merging the 96 NBI data?

It seems fairly spot-on to me.

Big Creek Bridge
Posted June 13, 2018, by Don Morrison

It looks like Google maps has misnamed this waterway.

USGS calls it Big Creek:

https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/advanced-viewer/?q=40.962377,...

So this is probably the bridge Luke found in the 96 NBI.

Looking at Bing maps, it appears there are other former crossings on this stream, the bridges long gone, except for what appears to be a pipeline? bridge at 40.926256, -91.550704.

Big Creek Bridge
Posted June 12, 2018, by Luke

The 1996 NBI lists a closed bridge dating to 1903 over Big Creek:

https://bridgehunter.com/scripts/bridge/add-nbi.cgi?fips=190...

Span length seems to match IMO.

Skunk River Bridge
Posted June 12, 2018, by Jason Smith (flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com)

This one's for you, esp. those residing in Henry County. Can you help crack this case? The 97th mystery bridge takes us to Iowa, to Henry County, to a historic bridge over Skunk River that is unknown- no history, no record and no photos. Can you help solve this case? More here: https://bridgehunterschronicles.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/mys...