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Guilford Covered Bridge

Dearborn County, Indiana
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Overview

Photo taken by Jonathan Maxwell

Map 

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Facts 

Overview
Covered bridge over East Fork Tanners Creek within Guilford Covered Bridge Park
Location
Dearborn County, Indiana
Status
Open to one-lane traffic
History
Built 1879 by Archibald M. Kennedy & Sons of Rushville; relocated to park in 1960; damaged by arson 1993; rehabilitated 1997
Builder
- A.M. Kennedy & Sons
Design
Burr arch-truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 101.4 ft.
Total length: 103.7 ft.
Deck width: 17.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.8 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.17017, -84.90867   (decimal degrees)
39°10'13" N, 84°54'31" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/680665/4337743 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Guilford
Inventory numbers
WGCB 14-15-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
INNBI 1500116 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16006 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 09/2011)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 20.7 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
30

Categories 

19th Century (3,822)
A.M. Kennedy & Sons (8)
Built 1879 (45)
Built during 1870s (545)
Burr arch-truss (226)
Covered (925)
Dearborn County, Indiana (49)
Functionally obsolete (7,040)
Indiana (3,348)
 NR-eligible (3,748)
One-lane traffic (7,112)
Open (28,314)
Relocated (365)
Select (538)
Span length 100-125 feet (3,300)
Through truss (9,210)
Total length 100-125 feet (3,633)
Truss (23,574)

Update Log 

  • May 18, 2010: New photo from Bill Eichelberger
  • September 8, 2005: Posted photo from Jonathan Maxwell

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Guilford Covered Bridge
Posted October 6, 2008, by Don (sega65 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Took a couple pictures of the covered bridge today. I almost drove right past it!

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Guilford Covered Bridge
Posted October 31, 2007, by Tom Hoffman (tehoffm [at] hotmail [dot] com)

The Guilford Covered Bridge originally had a wooden block floor until the fire in 1993. The floor was a casulity of the fire. I only wish a crew could have cut up new wooden blocks and set them for the floor for the rebuilding. The Darlington Covered Bridge in Montgomery County may still have block floor which I'm not sure.