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Wolfe Bridge

Knox County, Illinois
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Photo taken by Sean Flynn in November 2007

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Overview
Howe through truss bridge over Spoon river on county road 17
Location
Knox County, Illinois
Status
rebuilt in 1999
History
Built 1848; Cover added 1874; Destroyed by fire in 1994; rebuilt in 1999.
Design
Howe through truss
Bedstead pony truss approaches (lost)
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 104.0 ft.
Total length: 233.9 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.85633, -90.10983   (decimal degrees)
40°51'23" N, 90°06'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/743609/4526829 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Yates City
Inventory numbers
IL 048-0046 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 37248 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 01/1992)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1986)
100

Categories 

19th Century (3,999)
Built 1848 (9)
Built during 1840s (92)
Covered (944)
Destroyed by fire (58)
Howe through truss (205)
Howe truss (250)
Illinois (2,567)
Knox County, Illinois (12)
Lost (11,123)
 Lost 1994 (366)
Lost during 1990s (3,247)
NR-listed (2,384)
Pony truss (13,351)
Span length 100-125 feet (3,370)
Structurally deficient (16,931)
Sufficiency rating zero (314)
Through truss (9,585)
Total length 175-250 feet (2,886)
Truss (24,149)

Update Log 

  • September 9, 2012: New photos from Steve Conro
  • October 9, 2011: New photo from Steve Conro
  • February 27, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Merged NBI data
  • February 11, 2009: New photo from David Backlin
  • January 6, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Overview, Length, Width and GPS
  • January 5, 2009: New photos from Sean Flynn
  • August 19, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey

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Wolfe Bridge
Posted September 9, 2012, by Steve Conro (sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com)

I was surprised. This was rebuilt like an old timber covered bridge. Not a new bridge with siding and a roof like other "new" covered bridges.

Wolfe Bridge
Posted October 10, 2011, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Not even sure that the covered bridge has any historic components remaining... If I remember correctly the fire pretty well demolished it.

Wolfe Bridge
Posted October 10, 2011, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

How typical. They preserved the covered bridge, but did they preserve the extremely rare bedstead truss spans? No.