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Busching Covered Bridge 14-69-04

Ripley County, Indiana

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Overview

Photo taken by Chris Light

BH Photo #102969

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Covered bridge over Laughery Creek on CR 40 South
Location
Ripley County, Indiana
Status
Open to one-lane traffic
History
Built 1885 by Thomas A. Hardman
Builder
- Thomas A. Hardman
Design
Covered Howe through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 165.6 ft.
Total length: 182.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.06767, -85.23783   (decimal degrees)
39°04'04" N, 85°14'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/652448/4325763 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Milan
Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
225
Inventory numbers
INNBI 6900033 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-69-04 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 16972 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of October 2016)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 32.1 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

19th Century (7,382)
Built 1885 (172)
Built during 1880s (1,950)
Covered (1,601)
HAER documented (1,105)
Have street view (26,481)
Howe through truss (435)
Howe truss (539)
Indiana (4,876)
Laughery Creek (Indiana) (6)
NR-eligible (4,041)
 One-lane traffic (7,565)
Open (39,563)
Owned by county (20,546)
Ripley County, Indiana (43)
Select (530)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,192)
Thomas A. Hardman (6)
Through truss (14,827)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,223)
Truss (32,406)
Wooden deck (6,049)

Update Log 

  • September 29, 2020: New photos from James McCray
  • June 23, 2018: New photo from Linda Daffron
  • May 13, 2018: New photo from Mike Daffron
  • April 18, 2016: New photos from Brent Tindall
  • July 10, 2014: New photos from Andrew Raker
  • May 22, 2010: New photo from Bill Eichelberger
  • March 24, 2010: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Added Google Street View.
  • August 18, 2006: Posted photos from Chris Light

Sources 

  • Chris Light - CJKADJ [at] juno [dot] com
  • HAER IN-33 - Busching Covered Bridge, Spanning Laughery Creek at Covered Bridge Road, Versailles, Ripley County, IN
  • Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
  • Bill Eichelberger
  • Andrew Raker
  • Brent Tindall - bizzat219 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Linda Daffron
  • James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Busching Covered Bridge
Posted November 5, 2006, by Dan Reitmeyer (danreitmeyer [at] charter [dot] net)

This covered bridge was rehabilitated in 2005 by CLR Inc Vincennes IN