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Overview: Through truss bridge over Sand Creek on CR 250 West
Location: Jennings County, Indiana
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1890
Design: Pin-connected, 8-panel Pratt through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 122.0 ft.
Total length: 124.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.08393, -85.65997 (decimal degrees)
39°05'02" N, 85°39'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: INNBI 4000028 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16419 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 12/2004): Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 28.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1994): 75

Sand Creek Bridge

Posted March 28, 2007, by Anthony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

This bridge is known as the Geneva Ford Bridge. I have it listed as being built in 1907 by the Indiana Bridge Co. of Muncie,IN.