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HAER photo: Side view These photos from the Historic American Engineering Record show the bridge when it was still in use [HAER photo taken October 1989 by Roger McCredie] |
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HAER photo: Portal view |
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HAER photo: Deck view |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Bureau Creek on TR 236 near Tiskilwa
- Location
- Bureau County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by modern bridge
- History
- Built 1884 by the Smith Bridge Co.; replaced 1995
- Builder
- - Smith Bridge Co. of Toledo, Ohio
- Design
- Main span: Pin-connected, 8-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 119.0 ft.
Total length: 194.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.29383, -89.49285 (decimal degrees)
41°17'38" N, 89°29'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/291273/4574372 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 25 N., R. 11 E., Sec. 7
- USGS topographic map
- Princeton South
- Inventory number
- BH 15040 (Bridgehunter.com ID)