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Brush Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Brush Creek on 110th Avenue
- Location
- Lucas County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1900
- Design
- Double-intersection Warren pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 42.0 ft.
Total length: 76.1 ft.
Deck width: 11.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.01595, -93.53768 (decimal degrees)
41°00'57" N, 93°32'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/454790/4540667 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Woodburn
- Land survey
- T. 72 N., R. 23 W., Sec. 20
- Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 45
- Inventory numbers
- IA 226590 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 13884 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of November 2009)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 21.2 (out of 100)
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Comments
Brush Creek Bridge
Fits the profile of other late-1800s rail-to-road structures you and I have found. (John moreso than I, FWIW. I'll find a picture and within a month John will have the original location.)
Brush Creek Bridge
I'm not sure exactly what to make of this...a 1967 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy track profile seems to indicate that this is a railroad maintained structure, built adjacent to a grade crossing (labeled G). In addition, the structure was there in the late 1930s:
http://ortho.gis.iastate.edu/client.cgi?zoom=1&x0=454760&y0=...
This would lead me to believe this is possibly a former railroad structure, and more research will be conducted. Also, I don't think I've seen a span like this where a vertical member is omitted between panels.
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Visited this one today. Found it barricaded and the road closed at the railroad crossing, which was removed. Underneath appears to have clear evidence of railroad origins. I ran into a gentleman who works for the county road department further east who knew of the bridge, and mentioned it had been there his whole life and it may be demolished soon.