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Sugar Creek Bridge

Crawford County, Illinois
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East end

Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in June 2008

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Overview
Steel stringer bridge over Sugar Creek on Sbi-163
Location
Crawford County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1937
Design
Steel stringer
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 67.9 ft.
Total length: 176.8 ft.
Deck width: 24.0 ft.
Also called
Bridge to Nowhere
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.00444, -87.59778   (decimal degrees)
39°00'16" N, 87°35'52" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/448240/4317439 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Merom
Inventory numbers
IL 017-0021 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 36725 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 02/2012)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 65.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
25

Categories 

Beam (6,158)
Built 1937 (544)
Built during 1930s (8,576)
Crawford County, Illinois (27)
Illinois (2,501)
Open (28,454)
Owned by state (9,854)
Span length 50-75 feet (7,012)
Steel stringer (2,380)
Total length 175-250 feet (2,806)

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  • June 22, 2008: Added by Robert Stephenson

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Sugar Creek Bridge
Posted June 28, 2009, by Robert Stephenson (seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Here's the link to the original story:

http://www.robdailynews.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=3494&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&S=1

Sugar Creek Bridge
Posted June 28, 2009, by Glen Brannon (hoosierky [at] att [dot] net)

While being named "Bridge to Nowhere", it was actually built in advance of the Wabash River bridge that was being planned at Merom, IN. This is my understanding from my grandfather, who helped build this bridge.

It is very still used and very solid to this day. It also has a name plate on the wall of it.