Old Highway 66 Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Two span Parker through truss bridge over Little Pigeon Creek on Old Highway 66
- Location
- Warrick County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1929, Rehabilitated in 2013-14
- Design
- Riveted Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 149.9 ft.
Total length: 305.0 ft.
Deck width: 19.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.8 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Warrick County Bridge #371
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.91028, -87.27139 (decimal degrees)
37°54'37" N, 87°16'17" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/476143/4195894 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Yankeetown
- Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
- 366
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 8700170 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 17195 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 57.7 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- October 22, 2020: Updated by Nathan Holth: Corrected built date per James Cooper's notes.
- June 19, 2020: New video from Mike Daffron
- February 23, 2020: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- April 17, 2018: New photos from Mike Daffron
- November 21, 2016: Updated by Mike Daffron: Added County bridge number
- August 16, 2014: Updated by Tony Dillon: Bridge has been rehabilitated
- October 23, 2012: New photos from Matt Lohry
- December 22, 2010: New Street View added by J.P.
- May 27, 2008: New photos from James McCray
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Matt Lohry
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Old IN-66 Bridge (Warrick County Bridge 371) - HistoricBridges.org
- Nathan Holth
Comments
I Love the color too !
I like this shade of Green... It stands out nicely without blending into the trees.
Well, its great that the county decided to rehabilitate the bridge for what it was built for. I was a little concerned about demolition until I saw the restored picture. I'm wondering if the bridge is much older than 1941. Being on an old state road alignment and having the narrow roadway makes me think its older. I remember a few state highway Parker trusses built in the 1920s which are gone that had a narrow roadway. Most Parker trusses built after 1935 had a wider roadway.
See, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Wisconsin--not that hard, is it??
This bridge is now opened and repainted
http://www.in.gov/dot/div/contracts/letting/archive/2013/may...
I believe the bridge is #371 for Warrick County. On page 6, it states maintenance and repair.
I went for a drive and came aross this?
There was a rail between Rockport and Newburgh at one time, you can still see the old rail bed in places.
I was told there are another set of abutments to the north if you boat up the creek.
Does anyone know anything about the bridge that was just to the south of this bridge? I was told it was a trolley bridge?
This bridge carries under 400 cars and is now a county owned bridge. Being as it was given Select status all options will have to be explored unless the county plans on avoiding Red tape and footing the multi-million dollar cost themselves.
Another similar span in Wells County carries over 5 times the traffic in a day, and it is reportedly to be rehabilitated.
This bridge is in the planning stages to be replaced.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/warrick/8700170/
Tom's suspicions were correct, per James Cooper's notes this bridge does indeed date to 1929.
https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=i...