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Union Street Bridge

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Note: The following information comes from the National Bridge Inventory and has not been verified.
Overview
Pony truss bridge over Spring Creek on Union Street in Nebo
Location
Pike County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1941; rehabilitated 1975
Design
Pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 83.0 ft.
Deck width: 21.3 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.43812, -90.79047   (decimal degrees)
39°26'17" N, 90°47'26" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/690151/4367726 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Pleasant Hill East
Inventory numbers
IL 075-3191 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15613 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 11/2010)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 22.8 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
350

Categories 

Built 1941 (302)
Built during 1940s (2,795)
Illinois (2,499)
Open (28,305)
Owned by city (3,049)
Pike County, Illinois (39)
Pony truss (13,215)
Span length 75-100 feet (4,718)
Structurally deficient (16,677)
Total length 75-100 feet (4,794)
Truss (23,565)
Wooden deck (5,398)

Comments 

Union Street Bridge
Posted October 28, 2010, by Matthew Lohry

This is another one of those "hybrid" trusses, where the entire truss is Warren configuration except for the center panel, which is a Pratt configuration.

Union Street Bridge
Posted October 28, 2010, by Dale Travis (daletravis [at] bigfoot [dot] com)

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