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Cataract Falls Covered Bridge 14-60-01
Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Mill Creek in Leiber State Recreation Area
- Location
- Owen County, Indiana
- Status
- Bypassed 1988; Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1876
- Builder
- - Smith Bridge Co. of Toledo, Ohio
- Design
- Smith type #3 through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 133.9 ft.
Total length: 140.1 ft.
Deck width: 13.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.5 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 27, 2005
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.43333, -86.81306 (decimal degrees)
39°25'60" N, 86°48'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/516088/4364882 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cataract
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 5000339 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
INNBI 6000029 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-60-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 39513 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 22, 2022: Updated by Tony Dillon: Changed design description as this was a "Type 3" Smith truss, and not a "Type 4"
- January 17, 2022: New photo from Tony Dillon
- June 11, 2019: New video from Mike Daffron
- January 5, 2019: New photo from David Shedlock
- December 2, 2018: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- May 12, 2018: New photos from Mike Daffron
- April 15, 2018: New photos from Mike Daffron
- May 6, 2017: New photo from Marc Shotts
- July 10, 2014: New photos from Andrew Raker
- July 14, 2012: New Street View added by Brent Tindall
- January 17, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: HAER data and Categories
- September 7, 2009: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- April 5, 2009: New photos from Tom Hall
- April 5, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Name, Overview, Status, Year built, Design and GPS
- February 8, 2009: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Galen R Frysinger
- Dale Travis
- Tom Hall - thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER IN-104 - Cataract Falls Bridge, Spanning Mill Creek, bypassed section of CR 279 (C, Cataract, Owen County, IN
- Brent Tindall - bizzat219 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Andrew Raker
- Marc Shotts
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- David Shedlock
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Lotsa water here today. Bridge is fine.