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Cedar Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned truss bridge over Cedar Creek on 70 Road
- Location
- Chase County, Kansas
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- Design
- 4 panel Bedstead Pratt pony truss with laced endposts
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.17274, -96.80884 (decimal degrees)
38°10'22" N, 96°48'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/691937/4227250 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Wonsevu
- Inventory number
- BH 74116 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 4, 2017: Updated by Robert Elder: Added category "Laced endposts"
- February 4, 2017: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- October 17, 2016: Added by Robert Elder
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
Comments
Cedar Creek Bridge
Walked down very overgrown 70 road west till I came to the creek. Very long bedstead I believe, rather interesting. Gorgeous little spot, all but forgotten.
Cedar Creek Bridge
This bridge may be private now. It appears to be a rather long pony truss of roughly 60-90 feet in length. It could also be a very short through truss.
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Admittedly, I was not expecting a bedstead to surface in Chase County. From what I have observed, Chase County did not seem to build a lot of bedstead trusses. On the other hand, perhaps they did build several only to lose them in floods. Regardless, this is the only known bedstead truss in the entire county. Thus, it has very high local significance. In addition, bedstead trusses are not exactly a dime a dozen on the national scale either.
The laced endposts on this bridge are an interesting feature. Without further inspection, I would estimate that this bridge could have been built anywhere between about 1885 and 1915. It could easily be pre 1900 given be very lightweight construction and the laced endposts.