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Overview: Covered bridge over Bean Blossom Creek on Covered Bridge Road
Location: Brown County, Indiana
Status: Open to one-lane traffic
History: Built 1880 by Joseph Basley
Design: Covered Howe through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 57.4 ft.
Total length: 101.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.5 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.26100, -86.25533 (decimal degrees)
39°15'40" N, 86°15'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: INNBI 0700036 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-07-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 15851 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 12/2003): Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 25.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1994): 30