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Big Bureau Creek Bridge
Description
While it looks intact enough to drive across. The road has been abandoned so you couldn't drive to this with out going on private property. The south end looks a little flood damaged. Cresting looks identical to that of some Michigan spans credited to the Joliet Bridge Company.Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Big Bureau Creek on Adandoned 2750 E Rd 2.5 mi. SW of La Moille
- Location
- Bureau County, Illinois
- Status
- Bridge appears intact, but the road to it is abandonded.
- History
- Built 1901
- Builder
- - Joliet Bridge & Iron Co. of Joliet, Illinois (likely fabricator)
- Design
- Pinned Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.1 ft.
Total length: 103.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.51776, -89.32485 (decimal degrees)
41°31'04" N, 89°19'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/306007/4598845 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- La Moille
- Inventory numbers
- IL 006-4176 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 49852 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 17, 2011: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder and truss type
- December 17, 2011: Updated by Steve Conro: Updated status info and added pictures
- October 17, 2011: Added by J.P.
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
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Appears to be a Joliet Bridge Company span if you compare to this one:
http://www.historicbridges.org/truss/dehmel/index.htm