Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Little Vermillion River on CR 50 North
- Location
- Vermillion County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1885 by J.J. Daniels; rehabilitated 1983
- Builder
- - J.J. Daniels
- Design
- Covered Burr arch-truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 176.8 ft.
Total length: 187.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1994
- Also called
- Morehead Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.89122, -87.43336 (decimal degrees)
39°53'28" N, 87°26'00" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- INNBI 8300038 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-83-04 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 94000589 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 17139 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 08/2004)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 48.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 210
Sources
- Tom Hall - thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List