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Boise River Greenbelt - 8th Street Bridge

Ada County, Idaho

Photos 

File:Ninth street bridge boise 2009.jpg

Larry D. Moore

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Pratt through truss bridge over Boise River on Boise River Greenbelt (an old alignment of 8th Street)
Location
Boise, Ada County, Idaho
Status
Open to pedestrians
History
Built 1911; Converted to pedestrian use 1988
Builder
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas
Design
Pratt through truss
Skew angle
10 degrees
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 2001
Also called
8th Street Bridge
8th Street Pedestrian Bridge
C.C. Clark Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+43.60932, -116.20926   (decimal degrees)
43°36'34" N, 116°12'33" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
11/563811/4828786 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Boise South
Inventory numbers
NRHP 01000980 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 50727 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Ada County, Idaho (11)
Boise, Idaho (6)
Built 1911 (711)
Built during 1910s (8,994)
Have street view (24,052)
Idaho (402)
Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. (102)
NR-listed (2,838)
Open to pedestrians (3,676)
Owned by city (4,714)
 Pin-connected (3,554)
Pratt through truss (4,717)
Pratt truss (8,206)
Preserved (1,099)
Road-to-trail (97)
Skewed (4,789)
Through truss (13,228)
Truss (29,967)
Wooden deck (5,897)

Update Log 

  • May 9, 2016: Updated by Luke: Corrected road name
  • October 3, 2014: Updated by Royce and Bobette Haley: Added categories "Wooden deck", "Pin-connected", "Skewed"
  • December 29, 2011: Added by James McCray

Sources 

  • James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Luke
  • Idaho State Historical Society - Image

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