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Stranger Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Stranger Creek
- Location
- Atchison County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1940
- Design
- Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 89.9 ft.
Total length: 128.9 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.50333, -95.28167 (decimal degrees)
39°30'12" N, 95°16'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/303823/4375119 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lancaster
- Land survey
- T. 6 S., R. 19 E., Sec. 27
- Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 10
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000031039503682 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 17378 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of June 2018)
- 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: 27.7 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- October 30, 2018: Updated by Clark Vance: Added category "Riveted"
- April 27, 2017: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
Sources
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
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A construction date of 1940 is possible but I would agree that this could very likely be older than 1940. Most bridges that are as lightweight as this one do tend to be older than 1940.
This is one of several pony trusses in eastern Kansas and western Missouri that are composed of paired angles. This is a really nice example. I have a suspicion that the Wayland Bridge Company in Washington, Kansas built these bridges but I have not been able to confirm that for certain. In addition, I would not be entirely shocked if a few examples were to be discovered in Nebraska or even southwestern Iowa someday. I have not found any evidence that either Kansas or Missouri used these as any sort of state standard, so there is a possibility they could be found in a neighboring state even though that has not happened yet.
Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that whoever built these Bridges used several different configurations including the Parker, the Pratt (I think), the Warren, and the Queenpost.