Rating:
70557
{81}%
1 vote
Little Missouri Creek Branch Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Steve Conro in April 2016
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BH Photo #352309
Description
Road completely abandoned from the south. Very helpful landowner let us access through path and then up dry stream bed on his property. 4WD needed.
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned Bedsted truss bridge over Branch of Little Missouri on CR1650N
- Location
- Brown County, Illinois
- Status
- bypassed and abandoned
- History
- Built 1907, abandoned by new alignment 1992
- Design
- Bedstead Warren pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 36.1 ft.
Total length: 37.1 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.07663, -90.81629 (decimal degrees)
40°04'36" N, 90°48'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/686199/4438547 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lake Mount Sterling
- Inventory numbers
- IL 005-3708 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 70557 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 24, 2016: Updated by Steve Conro: pics and changed name so Missouri Cr brides would list together
- January 15, 2016: Added by Elliott Johnson
Sources
- Elliott Johnson - elliottsgon15 [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com