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Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Embarras River on TR 275, northeast of Charleston, 3 mi. northwest of Ashmore
- Location
- Coles County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1914 by the Decatur Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Decatur Bridge Co.
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 139.7 ft.
Total length: 189.5 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.2 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1981
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.54914, -88.09328 (decimal degrees)
39°32'57" N, 88°05'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Inventory numbers
- IL 015-3165 (Illinois bridge number)
NRHP 81000211 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 15081 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 01/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100)
- Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 50
Comments
Airtight Bridge
Posted February 23, 2008, by Robert Stephenson (seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com)