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
- Design
- Burr arch-truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 101.4 ft.
Total length: 103.7 ft.
Deck width: 17.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.17017, -84.90867 (decimal degrees)
39°10'13" N, 84°54'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - 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 05/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 32.5 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
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Sources
- Jonathan Maxwell - themaxwellshouse [at] roadrunner [dot] com
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
Comments
Guilford Covered Bridge
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.
Guilford Covered Bridge
Three views, pre-fire, post-fire, and current day taken by Bill Eichelberger
