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Kilbourn Bridge

Van Buren County, Iowa
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

Map 

View Uglybridges.com report

Facts 

Overview
Six-span through truss bridge over the Des Moines River on Lark Avenue
Location
Van Buren County, Iowa
Status
Closed to all traffic
History
Built 1908-09 by the Ottumwa Supply & Construction Co.
Builders
- Ottumwa Supply & Construction Co. (Contractor)
- Toledo Massillon Bridge Co. (Fabricator)
Design
Pin-connected Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 135.2 ft.
Total length: 855.4 ft.
Deck width: 16.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1998
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.79987, -91.97043   (decimal degrees)
40°47'60" N, 91°58'14" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/586850/4517051 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 69 N., R. 10 W., Sec. 2
USGS topographic map
Mount Zion
Inventory numbers
IA 328760 (Iowa bridge number)
NRHP 427543 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 14566 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 07/2007)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 23.9 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
60

Categories 

Built 1909 (475)
Built during 1900s (4,266)
Closed (2,083)
Des Moines River (161)
Historic Bridge Weekend 2013 (144)
Iowa (3,604)
NR-listed (2,354)
Ottumwa Supply & Construction Co. (1)
Owned by county (16,526)
Pin-connected (1,568)
 Pratt through truss (3,184)
Pratt truss (5,687)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,966)
Structurally deficient (16,728)
Through truss (9,250)
Toledo Massillon Bridge Co. (5)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,818)
Truss (23,609)
Van Buren County, Iowa (48)

Update Log 

  • June 2, 2012: Updated by Chris Gonnerman: Updated bridge truss description.
  • March 23, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
  • July 29, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: added NHRP listing
  • June 18, 2008: Updated by Historic American Engineering Record
  • June 16, 2008: New photos from Historic American Engineering Record

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Kilbourn Bridge
Posted December 31, 2012, by dylan ulin (dylanulin76 [at] gmail [dot] com)

The bridge in photo 14 is the market street bridge iun ottumwa,iowa

Kilbourn Bridge
Posted June 3, 2012, by Chris Gonnerman

Apparently, I can't promote my pictures above the ones previously posted. That must be a webmaster-only thing.

Kilbourn Bridge
Posted June 2, 2012, by Luke Harden (lmharden [at] iastate [dot] edu)

I prefer the modern to the historical.

Kilbourn Bridge
Posted June 2, 2012, by Chris Gonnerman (chris [at] gonnerman [dot] org)

I've just posted photos from Monday (Memorial Day) of this bridge viewed from both ends. Is it preferable to have a current picture, or the historical photo, as the "thumbnail" for this bridge?

(Not pushing to have mine moved up. Just curious.)

Kilbourn Bridge
Posted May 29, 2011, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Yeah........should have gleaned through the report to confirm that Massillon was involved, although I was pretty confident they were.

Kilbourn Bridge
Posted May 29, 2011, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Tony,

If you read the HAER documentation it lists the Toledo-Massillon Bridge Company, successor to Massillon Bridge Company as bridge fabricator.

Kilbourn Bridge
Posted May 27, 2011, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Looks as if Massillon might have supplied the trusses for this bridge......as it features their distinctive plaques.