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Big Walnut Creek Bridge

Putnam County, Indiana
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Big Walnut Creek bridge

On old alignment of US 40. Taken 7/2006.

Photo taken by Jim Grey

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Facts 

Overview
Concrete arch bridge over Big Walnut Creek on CR 750 South
Location
Putnam County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1923. On former alignment of US 40.
Design
Closed-spandrel concrete arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 76.1 ft.
Total length: 237.8 ft.
Deck width: 20.3 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.55167, -86.98083   (decimal degrees)
39°33'06" N, 86°58'51" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/501646/4377998 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Reelsville
Inventory numbers
INNBI 6700229 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16911 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2011)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 24.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
103

Categories 

Arch (9,441)
Built 1923 (416)
Built during 1920s (7,048)
Closed-spandrel arch (2,774)
Deck arch (8,725)
Indiana (3,350)
NR-eligible (3,751)
Non-Select (301)
 Open (28,458)
Owned by county (16,527)
Putnam County, Indiana (75)
Skewed (4,083)
Span length 75-100 feet (4,741)
Structurally deficient (16,730)
Total length 175-250 feet (2,806)
US 40 (107)

Update Log 

  • July 19, 2011: New photos from J.P.
  • September 1, 2009: Updated by Jim Grey: Changed date built per NBI
  • August 19, 2009: New photo from Jim Grey

Sources 

  • Jim Grey - mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com
  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Big Walnut Creek Bridge
Posted July 20, 2011, by J.P.

not sure, I do know they were fixing wash out on the east end of the bridge.

Big Walnut Creek Bridge
Posted July 20, 2011, by Jim Grey (mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com)

Yikes, what happened to that railing? It wasn't so torn up when I visited last in 2009.