Otter Creek Covered Bridge 14-69-02
Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Otter Creek on CR 850 West
- Location
- Ripley County, Indiana
- Status
- Currently closed off to pedestrians due to severe damage likely caused by straight-line winds in February.
- History
- Built 1884 by Thomas A. Hardman; closed to traffic 1996
- Builder
- - Thomas A. Hardman
- Design
- Covered Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 101.0 ft.
Total length: 112.8 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.4 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Holton Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.08527, -85.41012 (decimal degrees)
39°05'07" N, 85°24'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/637508/4327442 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Holton
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 6900064 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-69-02 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 16985 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2008)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 22.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- February 21, 2021: New photo from Garrett DiDomizio
- March 29, 2019: New photos from Tony Dillon
- June 23, 2018: New photos from Linda Daffron
- May 13, 2018: New photo from Mike Daffron
- July 10, 2014: New photos from Andrew Raker
- April 21, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- January 15, 2007: Posted photos from Mark Gish
Sources
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Andrew Raker
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
- Linda Daffron
- Garrett DiDomizio - garrettdidomizio [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Work has been taking place to rebuild the roof of the bridge. The entire old roof has been removed, and the new one is being put together on the ground.
Since the money to repair the roof is not readily available I have started a Go Fund Me campaign to raise money to help get this repaired. The link is -
https://www.gofundme.com/otter-creek-covered-bridge-roof-rep...
I hope you guys can help.
Sounds good Tom... The sooner the better!
Heres word from a March 15th online article from Eagle Country 99.3. It says the county highway superintendent says the county was accepting bids from construction companies to rebuild the roof, and hopes it can get it done in a matter of weeks. I hope I explained it right.
Photos shared by Tom Hoffman show the damage to the Otter Creek Bridge to be far worse than I thought. Not only is a large portion of the roof sheared off, but several upper lateral bracings have been broken. Fortunately some emergency supports have been installed to protect the spans overall integrity. Likely straight-line winds in late February were to blame.
I received word that the Otter Creek Covered Bridge received some damage from those high winds nearly two weeks ago. Found a link to the Osgood newspaper with that on front, but couldn't find the article to open up. Hope it's minor and repairs can be made soon.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/ripley/otter-creek/
Work is finished on rebuilding the roof, and the bridge is once again open to pedestrians.