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Fourmile Creek Bridge

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Four Mile Creek bridge

Side view of lost Four Mile Creek concrete rainbow arch bridge, 1914.

Photo taken by the DOT

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Marsh arch bridge over Fourmile Creek
Location
Polk County, Iowa
Status
No longer exists
Design
Marsh arch
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.59747, -93.61656   (decimal degrees)
41°35'51" N, 93°36'60" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/448617/4605269 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 14248 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 02/1997)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 30.9 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1978)
579

Categories 

Arch (9,415)
Fourmile Creek (7)
Iowa (3,491)
Lost (10,352)
Marsh arch (48)
Polk County, Iowa (113)
Rainbow arch (195)
Structurally deficient (16,675)

Update Log 

  • February 28, 2013: Updated by Clark Vance: Corrected creek name
  • February 28, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Edited entry to be for the arch
  • December 18, 2012: New photo from Michael O'Brien
  • January 25, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Four Mile Creek", added location on the map

Sources 

  • Michael O'Brien
  • Luke Harden - lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com

Comments 

Four Mile Creek Bridge
Posted February 28, 2013, by Luke Harden (lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Can somebody remove the NBI data/