Seville Bridge

Photos

Side view, facing north

There is a concrete girder approach span on the west end, but it's hidden by the trees.

Photo taken by Fmiser in July 2012

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #234733

Map

Facts

Overview: Abandoned parker through truss bridge over Spoon River on E Seville Road
Location: Fulton County, Illinois
Status: Abandoned with deck missing
History: Built 1917. One of the nine bridges submitted to NRHP in "Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County Thematic Resources".
Design: Pin-connected Parker through truss, timber deck - now missing.
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 153.0 ft.
Total length: 230.0 ft.
Deck width: 12.8 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1980
Approximate latitude, longitude: +40.48599, -90.34310 (decimal degrees)
40°29'10" N, 90°20'35" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/725189/4485090 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Smithfield
Inventory numbers: NRHP 80001359 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
IL 029-3069 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 49864 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

May 1, 2016: New photos from Steve Conro
April 29, 2016: New photo from Steve Conro
February 28, 2014: Updated by Elliott Johnson: updated status
July 13, 2012: Updated by Fmiser: Captioned photos
July 10, 2012: New photos from Fmiser
July 8, 2012: Updated by Fmiser: Added categories "10-panel truss", "Pin-connected", "Wooden deck"
May 26, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added name
October 18, 2011: Updated by J.P.: bridge is on nrhp

Related Bridges

KJRY - Spoon River Bridge (Downstream)
KJRY - New Spoon River Bridge (Downstream)

Sources

J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
Luke
Fmiser - fmiser [at] gmail [dot] com
Elliott Johnson - elliottsgon15 [at] hotmail [dot] com
Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com

Comments

Seville Bridge

Posted February 22, 2014, by Don Morrison

You found another bridge with outward facing lacing (say that three times fast) on the verticals. 8^D

If you get that editor's account I mentioned in another post, you'll be able to add your photos right to the page, not just in the comments.

Seville Bridge

Posted February 22, 2014, by Elliott Johnson (elliottsgon15 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

me and my mom were out in this area recently.....whatever the timestamp on the photos say.....and I snapped quite a few photos of this bridge in particular (the snow made it difficult to get to some of the other sites in the area, the Babylon bridge in general but without leaves on the trees, its a lot easier to see both concrete approaches and I also noticed the rail bridge next to this one had been dismantled and the workers were in one of the photos.