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Pine Bluff Covered Bridge 14-67-03

Putnam County, Indiana

Photos 

Photo taken by Anthony Dillon

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BH Photo #115558

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Facts 

Overview
Covered bridge over Big Walnut Creek on CR 900 North
Location
Putnam County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
Design
Covered Howe truss bridge
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 100.0 ft.
Total length: 210.9 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.3 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.79328, -86.77349   (decimal degrees)
39°47'36" N, 86°46'25" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/519393/4404838 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Roachdale
Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
110
Inventory numbers
INNBI 6700045 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16905 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of March 2015)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 28 (out of 100)
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Categories 

19th Century (6,525)
Built during 1880s (1,728)
Covered (1,407)
Functionally obsolete (7,681)
Howe through truss (378)
Howe truss (469)
Indiana (4,302)
NR-eligible (3,988)
One-lane traffic (7,522)
 Open (37,746)
Owned by county (19,240)
Putnam County, Indiana (80)
Select (529)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,141)
Through truss (13,352)
Total length 175-250 feet (3,935)
Truss (30,176)
Wooden deck (5,909)

Update Log 

  • May 13, 2018: New photos from Mike Daffron
  • June 14, 2017: New photo from Tom Phelan
  • July 10, 2014: New photos from Andrew Raker
  • September 14, 2013: New photos from Brent Tindall
  • January 15, 2013: New photos from Brent Tindall
  • September 16, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Adj. coordinates
  • March 10, 2011: New photos from Brent Tindall
  • May 22, 2010: New photo from Bill Eichelberger
  • January 18, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
  • July 4, 2008: Updated by Anthony Dillon

Sources 

  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Bill Eichelberger
  • Brent Tindall - bizzat219 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Andrew Raker
  • Tom Phelan - thomasp335 [at] aol [dot] com
  • Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
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Pine Bluff Covered Bridge 14-67-03
Posted August 28, 2018, by Tom Hoffman

For some reason the Pine Bluff Bridge is closed in winter. This according to signs at each road to the bridge, and gates at top of each hill. I wonder if its due to the treacherous winding steep grades at each end, or the bridge turns brittle in winter. Also I find the 1915 date questionable? Don't know if any Howe trusses were built after 1900. The center pier is concrete instead of stone.