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Dick Huffman Covered Bridge 14-67-13
Facts
- Overview
- Two-span covered bridge over Big Walnut Creek on Huffman Road
- Location
- Putnam County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1880
- Design
- Covered Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 128.9 ft.
Total length: 267.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.4 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Webster's Ford Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.50817, -86.95767 (decimal degrees)
39°30'29" N, 86°57'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/503639/4373171 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Reelsville
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 216
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 6700148 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-67-13 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 16938 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of March 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 29.4 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- July 24, 2019: New video from Mike Daffron
- June 28, 2019: New photos from Mike Daffron
- May 13, 2018: New photos from Mike Daffron
- July 10, 2014: New photos from Andrew Raker
- September 2, 2010: New photos from Jim Grey
- January 19, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- April 3, 2009: Updated by Anthony Dillon
- October 23, 2006: Posted photo from Tom Hall
Sources
- Tom Hall - thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Jim Grey - mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com
- Andrew Raker
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
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Jan. 2018 the sway on the west end of the bridge does not appear to have increased over the 2006 photo above. Do not know if it naturally stabilized or had work done to it.
Charles