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Stanley Mill Bridge

Marshall County, Iowa
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Overview
Lost Through truss bridge
Location
Marshall County, Iowa
Status
Destroyed by collision
History
Built by the county in 1884; Lost during an ice jam in 1984
Design
Whipple through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.11160, -93.02197   (decimal degrees)
42°06'42" N, 93°01'19" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/498183/4662166 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 52757 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,819)
Built 1884 (98)
Built during 1880s (1,044)
Destroyed by collision (11)
Destroyed by ice jam (2)
Iowa (3,500)
Lost (10,356)
 Lost 1984 (33)
Lost during 1980s (435)
Marshall County, Iowa (47)
Through truss (9,205)
Truss (23,565)
Whipple truss (154)

Update Log 

  • April 16, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added info
  • June 26, 2012: Added by Luke Harden

Sources 

  • Luke Harden - lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Ice Jam Bridge
Posted June 27, 2012, by Fmiser (fmiser [at] gmail [dot] com)

This one has vertical members with the diagonals reaching beyond the neighboring vertical. This is a Whipple.

It's hard to distinguish between the near and far trusses, but if I'm seeing correctly those diagonals cross just one vertical making it a "plain", not a tripple whipple.

Ice Jam Bridge
Posted June 27, 2012, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Definitely a Whipple

Ice Jam Bridge
Posted June 27, 2012, by John Marvig (johnmarvig [at] chaska [dot] net)

I'm quite sure thats whipple...

Ice Jam Bridge
Posted June 26, 2012, by Luke Harden (lmharden [at] iastate [dot] edu)

Looks like a Whipple, not 100% sure