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Busseron Creek Bridge

Sullivan County, Indiana

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Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Department of Natural Resource, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology.

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Busseron Creek on CR 500S
Location
Sullivan County, Indiana
Status
Replaced by new bridge
History
Built in 1896 by the Bellefontaine Bridge & Iron Company; replaced in 1989.
Builder
- Bellefontaine Bridge & Iron Co. of Bellefontaine, Ohio
Design
Pinned, 7-panel Pratt through trusss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 103.0 ft.
Total length: 243.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.0 ft.
Also called
County Bridge #106
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.01110, -87.41627   (decimal degrees)
39°00'40" N, 87°24'59" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/463959/4318090 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Sullivan
Inventory number
BH 44317 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,557)
7-panel truss (373)
Bellefontaine Bridge & Iron Co. (30)
Built 1896 (273)
Built during 1890s (2,982)
Indiana (4,917)
Lost (24,712)
Lost 1989 (181)
Lost during 1980s (1,368)
 Pratt through truss (5,387)
Pratt truss (9,293)
Replaced by new bridge (16,566)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,395)
Sullivan County, Indiana (80)
Through truss (15,054)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,264)
Truss (32,771)
Wooden deck (6,069)

Update Log 

  • May 20, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Design
  • March 4, 2010: Added by Anthony Dillon

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Busseron Creek Bridge
Posted March 10, 2019, by ...justsayin

convert this to entry, other replacement...…..

Busseron Creek Bridge
Posted January 4, 2017, by Mike Daffron (daffronmike [at] yahoo [dot] com)

This is the same bridge as Boone Cemetery https://bridgehunter.com/in/sullivan/boone-cemetery/