Stumphole Bridge
Photos
Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Department of Natural Resource, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology.
View more info about Indiana historic bridges from the SHAARD database
Description
This bridge was built in 1894 by the Lafayette Bridge Company to replace a J.J.Daniels built covered bridge that was destroyed by a storm. The abutments were reused for the iron bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over East Fork White River on Stumphole Road
- Location
- Lawrence County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1894; Lost 1988
- Builder
- - Lafayette Bridge Co. of Lafayette, Indiana
- Design
- Pinned Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 450.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.0 ft.
- Also called
- County Bridge #123
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.80316, -86.58514 (decimal degrees)
38°48'11" N, 86°35'07" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/536022/4295015 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Bedford West
- Inventory number
- BH 41809 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 14, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Edited bridge
- October 14, 2012: Added by Tony Dillon
- December 26, 2011: New Street View added by Craig Philpott
- February 24, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added alt. name
- February 2, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added GPS coordinates
- March 18, 2009: Added by Anthony Dillon
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Craig Philpott - cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Luke Harden - lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Hey, Mike
Thanks. That's awesome.
Don,
When you are on the county list page, click on “Exhibit” in the light blue menu bar near the top of the page. This will give you exactly what you are looking for.
MG
I was thinking that it might be good to have a google map on each county page with pins (and possibly corresponding tooltips with names) showing the location of all currently listed bridges in that county. I don't know how difficult it would be to automatically include gps data and bridge names in the county map when a bridge is added, but I suppose it would be a pain to do it manually.
The idea would be to find out if a bridge you want to add has already been added, perhaps under a name not familiar to you. This would reduce the chance of duplicates. This might help most for those who add bridges using internet imagery. It also assumes that gps coordinates are always correct or close.
Might also be more work than it's worth.
Anyone think this might be feasible?
Yeah... Same one.
I tried to edit some info and ended up adding a whole new page. Oops! Just goes to show one shouldn't try to edit something while heavily medicated! 8^/
So...
Is this Stumphole bridge that the road was named after?
This bridge was replaced in 1988 with a newer type ugly-generic concrete bridge measuring 823 feet in length. It is about 30 feet over the river and obviously ruined a very scenic picture of tranquility on the East Fork White River. This stream is unmatched for large-older bridges that still remain standing especially in Lawrence and Jackson counties.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/lawrence/stumphole/