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All Forks Creek Bridge

Putnam County, Illinois
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Photo taken by Steve Conro in January 2012

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Description 

NBI lists 1801. This looks old but pre Civil War in this area? Did the Indians build it?

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Facts 

Overview
Slab bridge over All Forks Creek on Division Street
Location
Granville, Putnam County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
NBI shows 1801 but I'm guessing its 1901.
Design
Slab
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 11.2 ft.
Total length: 23.0 ft.
Deck width: 23.6 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.26443, -89.24096   (decimal degrees)
41°15'52" N, 89°14'27" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/312281/4570534 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Spring Valley
Inventory numbers
IL 078-6301 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 51144 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 01/2011)
Sufficiency rating: 87.5 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
450

Categories 

Granville, Illinois (1)
Illinois (2,500)
Open (28,318)
Owned by city (3,053)
Putnam County, Illinois (11)
Slab (623)
Span length under 25 feet (4,084)
Total length under 25 feet (1,403)

Update Log 

  • February 1, 2012: New photos from Steve Conro
  • January 31, 2012: Added by Steve Conro

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All Forks Creek Bridge
Posted February 8, 2012, by Steve Conro (sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Typically they use 1900 and there are some bridges built in the very late 1800's. That's why the 1801 struck me as odd.

All Forks Creek Bridge
Posted February 2, 2012, by Michael Goff (michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com)

The NBI date is a default date for an unknown construction date. Normally if the date reads 1900 or 1901 and it is of concrete construction that simply means the bridge construction date is unknown. Maybe in Illinois they use 1800 or 1801 since there is a chance of having pre-1900 bridges there, unlike here in Oregon.

The FHWA bridges inspection coding guide states..

“Record and code the year of construction of the structure. Code all 4 digits of the year in which construction of the structure was completed. If the year built is unknown, provide a best estimate.”

I would say the best estimate was not applied here. I would guess from the 1930’s or 40’s

All Forks Creek Bridge
Posted February 1, 2012, by K. A. Erickson

It looks a lot like this bridge >>>

http://bridgehunter.com/wa/pierce/minter-creek/