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Sugar Creek Bridge
Facts
- 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
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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)
- Quadrangle map:
- Merom
- Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 25
- Inventory numbers
- IL 017-0021 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 36725 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 49.4 (out of 100)
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Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Bridge to nowhere - Wabash crossing at Palestine fell victim to red tape
Comments
Sugar Creek Bridge
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.
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