Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Mississinewa River on CR 990E in Matthews
- Location
- Grant County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1877; rehabilitated 1999
- Design
- Covered Smith through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 162.6 ft.
Total length: 178.1 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1978
- Also called
- Matthews Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.38850, -85.48483 (decimal degrees)
40°23'19" N, 85°29'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- INNBI 2700121 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-27-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 78000032 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 16198 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 12/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 33.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
- 196
Sources
- Jan Ruthig - jlruthig [at] aol [dot] com
- HAER IN-50 - Cumberland Covered Bridge, Spanning Mississinewa River, Matthews, Grant County, IN
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List