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Corydon Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt Through truss bridge over Des Moines River on Road
- Location
- Polk County, Iowa
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1889, Damaged and closed after the National Guard drove a tank across it in 1972, Removed ca: 1975
- Builder
- - Jensen Construction Co. of Des Moines, Iowa & Sand Springs, Oklahoma (Demolisher)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 156.0 ft.
Total length: 312.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.72620, -93.69783 (decimal degrees)
41°43'34" N, 93°41'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/441960/4619612 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Des Moines NW
- Inventory number
- BH 56261 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 6, 2018: New photo from Luke
- March 24, 2015: New photo from Luke
- May 19, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added info.
- May 16, 2013: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1960s Aerial Imagery
- State Library of Iowa - Feasibility Study of Dynamic Overload and Ultimate Load Tests of Full-Scale Highway Bridges, HR-160, 1973
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The Corydon Bridge would have either been submergered, or more likely torn down, by 1977, the year that the Army Corps of Engineers began filling Saylorville Lake after completion of Saylorville Dam.