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3rd Street Bridge

Cass County, Indiana

Photos 

3rd Street Truss early 1900's

This bridge had a another truss segment added for Interurban line sometime after construction. Great Flood of 1913 took out this bridge and a Concrete Luten Arch bridge replaced it.

Indiana Digital Image Library

BH Photo #159579

Map 

Description 

The road name was likely spelled out in those days, where now numbers are commonly used.

Facts 

Overview
Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Eel River on 3rd St.
Location
Logansport, Cass County, Indiana
Status
Destroyed in the 1913 Flood.
History
Built ca. 1889 by the King Bridge Company; Destroyed in the 1913 Flood.
Builder
- King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
Design
(3)8-panel, pinned Pratt through trusses
Also called
Third Street Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.75609, -86.36824   (decimal degrees)
40°45'22" N, 86°22'06" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/553327/4511873 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Logansport
Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
13,125
Inventory numbers
INNBI 0900140 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 44643 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of April 2017)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 73.1 (out of 100)
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Categories 

19th Century (7,574)
Built during 1880s (1,994)
Cass County, Indiana (91)
Destroyed by flood (470)
Eel River (Northern Indiana) (33)
Indiana (4,923)
King Bridge Co. (360)
Logansport, Indiana (36)
 Lost (24,769)
Lost 1913 (108)
Lost during 1910s (496)
Owned by county (20,789)
Pratt through truss (5,398)
Pratt truss (9,308)
Through truss (15,087)
Truss (32,814)

Update Log 

  • August 5, 2020: Updated by Tony Dillon: Fixed this page to reflect the truss bridge that is shown
  • August 14, 2019: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
  • September 27, 2015: Added by Jacob P. Bernard
  • June 20, 2014: Updated by James Norwood: added notation that Indiana 25 rerouted across the current bridge due to Hoosier Heartland Highway route reconfiguration in Logansport 2014
  • May 26, 2010: New photo from James Norwood
  • March 28, 2010: Updated by James Norwood: corrected GPS coordinates, added details.
  • March 28, 2010: Added by Anthony Dillon

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Comments 

Logansport 3rd St. Wabash River Bridge
Posted May 12, 2020, by Jim Grey (mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com)

With two rivers coming through town as they do, Logansport would *have* to be a city of bridges!

Logansport 3rd St. Wabash River Bridge
Posted May 12, 2020, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Not to mention there are a lot of bridges in Logansport which lends to the confusion!

One of my postcards proclaims them as "The City of Bridges".

Logansport 3rd St. Wabash River Bridge
Posted May 12, 2020, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Yes Jim, to say the least this page is a mess. The pictures were added to a page for a Luten Arch concrete bridge, so I'll have to work on separating it into different pages.

Thanks for the heads up!

Logansport 3rd St. Wabash River Bridge
Posted May 12, 2020, by Jim Grey (mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com)

I own a postcard of this bridge that places it over the Eel River, not the Wabash. Could we have mislocated it on this page?