CR 100S-White River Overflow Bridge
Photos
Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Department of Natural Resource, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology.
View more info about Indiana historic bridges from the SHAARD database
BH Photo #157685
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over White River Overflow on County Road 100 South
- Location
- Greene County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced with culverts and fill.
- History
- Built 1894; removed 1998
- Design
- 8-panel, Pinned Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 120.1 ft.
Total length: 163.1 ft.
Deck width: 13.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.5 ft.
- Also called
- Old County bridge #127
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.00896, -86.97119 (decimal degrees)
39°00'32" N, 86°58'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/502494/4317771 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Bloomfield
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 2800088 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 39201 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 8, 2020: Updated by Tony Dillon: Updated location.
- January 21, 2017: New photos from Mike Daffron
- March 11, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added truss type
- March 22, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Status and history
- March 19, 2009: Updated by J.P.: No longer Exists
- February 5, 2009: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Tony, I deleted my photos. Obviously they were incorrect.
Tony, did you mean I was incorrect about the location of the Old River Covered Bridge, or it was incorrect to demolish the metal truss?
Right again Tom... This is incorrect as this was the location of the Old River Bridge over the main channel.
I'll bet this bridge was removed and never replaced. Anyway, I believe this area is where the Old River Covered bridge was located over the main channel. It was a two span 370 foot Kennedy Covered bridge. Also it was an unusually large wooden bridge with a 19 foot clearance and an 18 foot width. The covered bridge was lost in the 1957 flood and never replaced. I don't know if either side of the river has become private property. The main river channel here is the place to build a modern covered bridge not to replace a demolished historic bridge. If the branch metal bridge was demolished cause of the L word, thats never just right.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/greene/2800088/
Thanks Mike! That's a page that needed to be fixed for a long time. I just happened across it yesterday and decided to take care of it. It took aerial imagery to find the right location, as that overflow appears to have all but dried up.