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Photos taken Sept. 2005 by Tom Hall
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Overview
Covered bridge over Little Raccoon Creek on CR 225 East
Location
Parke County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1856 by Henry Wolfe; rebuilt 1867
Design
Covered Burr arch-truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 132.8 ft.
Total length: 154.8 ft.
Deck width: 12.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.72428, -87.18967   (decimal degrees)
39°43'27" N, 87°11'23" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers
INNBI 6100070 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-61-17 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 78000391 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 16806 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2006)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
55

Categories 

19th Century (1,720)
Built 1856 (5)
Built during 1850s (109)
Burr arch-truss (119)
Covered (504)
Indiana (1,566)
Little Raccoon Creek (Parke County, Indiana) (6)
NR-listed (1,469)
Open (21,591)
Owned by county (14,137)
Parke County, Indiana (39)
Span length 125-175 feet (1,989)
Structurally deficient (10,789)
Sufficiency rating zero (208)
Through truss (5,205)
Total length 125-175 feet (2,626)
Truss (15,739)
Wooden deck (5,156)

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