Rating:
15730
{63}%
3 votes
Wabash Memorial Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Kim Harvey in October 2009
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BH Photo #147862
Description
Owned and maintained by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT)
Facts
- Overview
- Steel arch bridge over Wabash River connecting IN 62 and IL 141 between the towns of Mt. Vernon, IN and New Haven, IL.
- Location
- White County, Illinois, and Posey County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1956
- Builders
- - Olinger Brothers
- Traylor Brothers Inc. of Evansville, Indiana
- Design
- Cantilevered steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 426.7 ft.
Total length: 2,400.0 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.6 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.94390, -88.03584 (decimal degrees)
37°56'38" N, 88°02'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/408985/4200096 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Emma
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 4,600
- Inventory numbers
- IL 097-9900 (Illinois bridge number)
INNBI 021869 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 15730 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of October 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 46.6 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- July 6, 2019: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 27, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 14, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- March 25, 2017: New photos from Mike Daffron
- July 19, 2014: Updated by James Baughn: Updated to show that tolls were removed effective July 1, 2014
- March 10, 2010: Updated by Kim Harvey: street view
- February 17, 2010: Updated by Kim Harvey: Overview, approach type
- October 18, 2009: New photos from Kim Harvey
People weren't paying tolls 2011-2012 either. The tollbooth was not manned every time we went over the bridge.