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Overview: Through truss bridge over Little Salt Creek on CR 595 East
Location: Lawrence County, Indiana
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1897; rehabilitated 1987
Design: Through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 97.1 ft.
Total length: 100.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.2 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +38.97833, -86.36972 (decimal degrees)
38°58'42" N, 86°22'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: INNBI 4700117 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16506 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 06/2004): Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 17.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2004): 118

Little Salt Creek Bridge

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

Another Lafayette Bridge Co. span, they built alot of them in this county. Scenic spot and a road that goes basically nowhere.