Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Bureau Creek on Old Dad Joe Trail in Princeton
- Location
- Bureau County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Preserved
- History
- Built 1863; rehabilitated 1973
- Design
- Covered Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 95.1 ft.
Total length: 147.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.9 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.41644, -89.47867 (decimal degrees)
41°24'59" N, 89°28'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/292849/4587953 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Princeton North
- Inventory numbers
- IL 006-0134 (Illinois bridge number)
WGCB 13-06-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 75000640 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 15038 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 06/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 19.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
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