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Fisher Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Des Moines River on 66th Avenue/Des Moines RFD No.4/Kempton Road
- Location
- Johnston, Polk County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1906; Replaced 1959
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
-
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
- Also called
- Fischer Bridge
Sycamore Bridge
Sycamore Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.68041, -93.66898 (decimal degrees)
41°40'49" N, 93°40'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/444319/4614509 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Des Moines NW
- Inventory number
- BH 56093 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 8, 2020: New photo from Luke
- January 13, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 12, 2019: Updated by Luke: Added type & build date.
- January 12, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- April 24, 2013: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- Kempton Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- Luke
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1950s Aerial Imagery
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa on January 13, 1958 ยท 21 - Monday, January 13, 1958 T. Kong Estimates of a 70 per cent .increase in traffic by 1990 "make It imperative that no time be lost" in developing a street pattern for Polk - County, particularly the area around Des Moines. That was the advic
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I believe that bridge was replaced in the middle to late 60's. My parents built a house in Saylorville in '65, and I remember riding over the truss bridge in a car for a few years before it was replaced.