Little Wabash River Overflow Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over Little Wabash River Overflow on Fr-2114 (Old US 50)
- Location
- Clay County, Illinois
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1923
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Dimensions
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Total length: 500.0 ft.
Deck width: 21.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.68833, -88.31160 (decimal degrees)
38°41'18" N, 88°18'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/385927/4283007 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Clay City
- Inventory number
- BH 41233 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 6, 2012: New photos from James Baughn
- October 17, 2010: New Street View added by Cliff Darby
- September 8, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Future prospects
- March 2, 2009: Added by Robert Stephenson
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Cliff Darby - cliffsta1987 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Its fascinating to see that Illinois and IDOT have so much money that they can spend money destroying heritage that isn't in the way of anything and has been left standing for many years with no problems. How wonderful it is to see tax dollars spent on things like this instead of bridge preservation, road repaving, or even other such silly things like crime prevention, etc. Why waste money on those sorts of things when we can demolish a historic bridge?
I am a resident of neighboring Wayne County and drove by these bridges once in awhile in my childhood. I was always fascinated by the brickwork on the guard rails. It's a real shame they want to tear them down; they don't build 'em pretty like that anymore. I'll have to make one more trip to see them one last time...
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/il/clay/bh41233/
As of 2014 this bridge, and the others along Old U.S. 50 are still standing.