Rating:
5 votes
Jugtown Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over East Fork Mazon River on Jugtown Road (TR 172), 2.5 mi. west of Braceville
- Location
- Grundy County, Illinois
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1884
- Builder
- - P.E. Lane of Chicago, Illinois (Likely Fabricator)
- Design
- Pin-connected, 10-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 169.9 ft.
Total length: 171.8 ft.
Deck width: 13.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.21878, -88.32163 (decimal degrees)
41°13'08" N, 88°19'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/389215/4563886 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Gardner
- Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 50
- Inventory numbers
- IL 032-5115 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15259 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of October 2012)
- Sufficiency rating: 3 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- July 8, 2013: New photos from Joshua Bauer
- July 3, 2012: New photos from Steve Conro
- April 3, 2006: Posted photos from Bill Burmaster
Sources
- Bill Burmaster
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Joshua Bauer
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
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Closed for repairs after car collision, reopened for awhile, now closed to traffic.