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Red Rock Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pennsylvania through truss bridge with Camelback format (5 slope) upper chords over the Des Moines River on Polk Street
- Location
- Red Rock, Marion County, Iowa
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Built circa 1897-99, One span lost to flooding in 1944, Removed during the building of the Red Rock Dam (?).
- Design
- Pennsylvania through trusses with Camelback format (5 slope) upper chords.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.42909, -93.12527 (decimal degrees)
41°25'45" N, 93°07'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/489533/4586398 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Knoxville NW
- Inventory number
- BH 49351 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 21, 2013: Updated by Jason Smith: Added categories "Pin-connected", "One-lane traffic", "Howe Lattice Portal", "Red Rock Lake Project (Iowa)"
- May 16, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added info
- December 17, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Tweaked location a wee bit.
- December 17, 2012: Updated by Don Morrison: Made the GPS coordinates much closer to the actual position. Not that it really matters.
- January 2, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: updated truss type
- August 15, 2011: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1930s Aerial Imagery
- Don Morrison
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1950s Aerial Imagery
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Fascinating looking around these man-made lakes. In bing bird's eye, you can see small bridges, culverts, roadways, and foundations near the lake on abandoned roads. Even a bridge on what appears to be old 14 that is now apparently part of a fishing jetty at 41.432982,-93.100511.