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Overview

Photos taken by Mark Gish
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Portal

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Looking north

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Underneath

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Lower joint

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Overview
Through truss bridge over Sand Creek on IN 3
Location
Jennings County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1935; rehabilitated 1982
Design
Riveted, 11-panel Parker through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 197.8 ft.
Total length: 200.7 ft.
Deck width: 23.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.6 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.08033, -85.64257   (decimal degrees)
39°04'49" N, 85°38'33" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/617411/4326567 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
North Vernon
Inventory numbers
INNBI 000770 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16420 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 08/2006)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 30.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
3,899

Categories 

11-panel truss (15)
Built 1935 (1,174)
Built during 1930s (5,230)
Functionally obsolete (5,108)
IN 3 (9)
Indiana (1,592)
Jennings County, Indiana (44)
Open (21,823)
Owned by state (6,645)
Parker truss (445)
Riveted (374)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,031)
Through truss (5,419)
Total length 175-250 feet (1,835)
Truss (16,067)

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Sand Creek IN 3 Bridge
Posted April 30, 2007, by Anthony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

There is a derelict Lafayette Bridge Co. thru truss with ponies on both ends sitting in the weeds just to the East of this bridge. I would say it's on the old alignment of SR3, and has been abandoned since '35 when this bridge was built. Tried to take pics last fall but could'nt get through overgrowth.