Rating:
4 votes
Jeffers Bridge
Description
Name Jeffers Bridge comes from a local landowner, Andrew J> Jeffers, who spearheaded the drive to have a new bridge built. Vincennes Bridge Co won the contract in July 1926.Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Birch Creek on CR 200 South
- Location
- Clay County, Indiana
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic 2015
- History
- Built 1926 by the Vincennes Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Vincennes Bridge Co. of Vincennes, Indiana
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 87.9 ft.
Total length: 90.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.8 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on February 7, 2000
- Also called
- Birch Creek Bridge
Clay County Bridge #127 - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.35828, -87.14221 (decimal degrees)
39°21'30" N, 87°08'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/487748/4356545 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Saline City
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 187
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 1100105 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
NRHP 00000213 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 15912 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 24.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- October 10, 2020: Updated by Mike Daffron: changed build date to 1926, other info
- July 4, 2020: New video from Mike Daffron
- June 11, 2017: New video from Mike Daffron
- September 24, 2015: New photos from Mike Daffron
- March 26, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Alternate name
- March 24, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: NRHP
- September 30, 2008: New photos from Robert Stephenson
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Jeffers Bridge
This will now become a nice bridge to fish from
Jeffers Bridge
"Rough" is being nice. Looks like it's been used as a pinball machine for farm machinery. Clay County obviously doesn't care about their bridges. It will be interesting to see what happens with the Eel River bridge at Bowling Green.
Jeffers Bridge
Not a big surprise Mike. It is listed as "Select", but is in really rough condition.
Jeffers Bridge
rock piles on either end, road closed sign stuck into pavement. I believe that this bridge may stay intact. (Hope So)
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I agree ANON... It's a mangled mess! Not sure why it made the "Select" list...But then Hell, there were some really nice spans that got left off of it. That's what happens when you pay way too much money to an out-of-state firm for a very mediocre assessment!