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Elrod Bridge
Description
Named after the prominent Elrod family that owned much of the land on the south bank.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Spoon River on TR 248
- Location
- Fulton County, Illinois
- Status
- Destroyed by storm 1995
- History
- Built 1890; Lost to a F4 tornado in 1995. One of the nine bridges submitted to NRHP in "Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County Thematic Resources", 1980-10-29
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 170.0 ft.
Total length: 215.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.39143, -90.25457 (decimal degrees)
40°23'29" N, 90°15'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/733020/4474822 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Smithfield
- Elevation
- 442 ft. above sea level
- Inventory numbers
- IL 029-3109 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 52522 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 8, 2012: Updated by Fmiser: added to history
- July 2, 2012: New photo from Luke Harden
- July 2, 2012: Updated by Fmiser: Added type, corrected lat/long.
- June 3, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Destroyed by tornado"
- May 25, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- Fmiser - fmiser [at] gmail [dot] com