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Branch White River Bridge

Greene County, Indiana

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Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Department of Natural Resource, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology.

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Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bridge over a branch of White River on CR 100 S
Location
Greene County, Indiana
Status
No Longer Exists
History
Built 1894; removed 1998
Design
Pinned Pratt through truss
Dimensions
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
County bridge #127
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.00884, -86.95495   (decimal degrees)
39°00'32" N, 86°57'18" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/503900/4317758 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Bloomfield
Inventory numbers
INNBI 2800088 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 39201 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 08/1990)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 16.4 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1990)
100

Categories 

19th Century (6,182)
Built 1894 (209)
Built during 1890s (2,459)
Greene County, Indiana (79)
Indiana (4,198)
Lost (18,667)
Lost 1998 (385)
Lost during 1990s (3,706)
 Pratt through truss (4,597)
Pratt truss (8,017)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,030)
Structurally deficient (18,414)
Through truss (12,895)
Total length 125-175 feet (5,237)
Truss (29,437)

Update Log 

  • 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
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Branch White River Bridge
Posted June 6, 2015, by Tom Hoffman

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?

Branch White River Bridge
Posted May 30, 2015, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Right again Tom... This is incorrect as this was the location of the Old River Bridge over the main channel.

Branch White River Bridge
Posted May 30, 2015, by Tom Hoffman

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.