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Oblique view Photos taken 2005 by Nathan Holth |
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Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Elkhart River on Indiana Avenue in Goshen
- Location
- Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1898 by the Bellefontaine Bridge & Iron Co.; rehabilitated 1986
- Builder
- - Bellefontaine Bridge & Iron Co. of Bellefontaine, Ohio
- Design
- Pin-connected, 12-panel Pennsylvania through truss with steel grate deck
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 173.8 ft.
Total length: 182.0 ft.
Deck width: 23.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.2 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Fort Wayne Street Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.59306, -85.84833 (decimal degrees)
41°35'35" N, 85°50'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/595984/4605235 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Goshen
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 2000170 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
NRHP 05001018 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 16094 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 11/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 47.2 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
- 4,301
Sources
- Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere - by Nathan Holth