Sugar Creek IN 39 Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Sugar Creek on IN 39
- Location
- Boone County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1940; rehabilitated 1989
- Design
- Riveted Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 149.9 ft.
Total length: 155.8 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.6 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.16167, -86.48556 (decimal degrees)
40°09'42" N, 86°29'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/543809/4445827 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mechanicsburg
- Elevation
- 800 ft. above sea level
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 013320 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 15848 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 05/2015)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 44.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 4,720
Update Log
- October 9, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
- July 25, 2010: Updated by Ed Hollowell: Add Altitude
- February 15, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added truss type.
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Ed Hollowell - erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Our county board soon recognized the necessity of better crossings over the streams of the county. At the June session of 1870, seven thousand dollars was appropriated to erect a 130-foot iron span bridge on stone work near Thorntown, over Sugar Creek; also five thousand dollars to erect a similar structure over Eagle Creek at Zionsville, and four thousand dollars for one over Sugar Creek at Mechanicsburg. The erection of these three structures were all made out of general county revenue. For ten years our county fathers were content without further bridge accommodations.
If this was built in the 1940's, there must have been one previous.
My thanks to the webmaster on the posting of my bridge pics.
Was wondering why the pics I took of this bridge hasn't been made permanent. I've seen where the admins will add the bridges to the detail section, and the credit of the photographer duly noted.
Shame there isn't a photo for this bridge. Can anyone go out and take photos then upload them? Because this bridge is truly a beautiful bridge and should have photos.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/boone/13320/
Harley, I can pretty much assure you that any of these state built spans from the 30's and 40's did indeed replace earlier structures! Most state highways were important early roads that were taken over by the state starting in the 1920's, and many of those had bridges that were quickly deemed inadequate for heavier traffic.