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Buck Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Buck Creek on CR 100 South
- Location
- Greene County, Indiana
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1905
- Design
- Pin-connected, 4-panel Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 59.0 ft.
Total length: 62.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.7 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- County Bridge #237
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.00889, -87.10889 (decimal degrees)
39°00'32" N, 87°06'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/490572/4317768 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Switz City
- Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
- 110
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 2800165 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16210 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of July 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 16.3 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- July 30, 2019: New photos from Mike Daffron
- July 9, 2019: Updated by Mike Daffron: Bridge has been opened to traffic again
- January 27, 2019: Updated by Mike Daffron: Bridge is closed to all traffic
- July 4, 2017: New video from Mike Daffron
- May 2, 2017: New photos from Mike Daffron
- June 29, 2008: New photos from Robert Stephenson
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
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It's nice to see at least 1 pony truss escape the massacre that has besieged Greene and Owen Counties in the past couple years! Several nice older pinned Pratt ponies were needlessly scrapped!