Cross Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Cross Creek on a local road, 4.0 mi. south and 3.3 mi. west of Soldier
- Location
- Jackson County, Kansas
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- Design
- Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 40.0 ft.
Total length: 55.1 ft.
Deck width: 13.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.47833, -96.02333 (decimal degrees)
39°28'42" N, 96°01'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/756032/4374090 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Onaga NE
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000430959503720 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 40968 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 03/1990)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 20.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1980)
- 5
Update Log
- July 30, 2017: New photo from Kevin Skow
- January 10, 2017: Updated by Robert Elder: Added categories "Bedstead pony truss", "Bedstead Pratt pony truss"
- December 12, 2016: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited Status.
- December 11, 2016: Updated by Robert Elder: Added categories "Bedstead Pratt pony truss", "Bedstead", "Pin-connected"
- December 10, 2016: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
Sources
- Nick Schmiedeler
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Kevin Skow - weatherbum [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
Many of the undiscovered bridges in Kansas are probably going to be smaller bridges over smaller streams, but many of them may be highly significant. Many of the old, lightweight, trusses are quite good at hiding in the trees for decades.
Haha Robert, no.... I have been trying to focus on previously unphotographed bridges, and also those in "unknown" status though, but really those are few and far between anymore, you knocked out many of them, and it may be just a coincidence but a few of those unphotographed and unknown turned out to be more of the historic bridges...I don't know...
Hi Nick:
Did your car come with a Historic Bridge Detector, or did you have to order one from Wal-Mart? I would like to get one for my car.
This is another great Bedstead. I honestly don't know how this one is still standing. I would hate to see it collapse though. Like the Negro Creek Bridge, this one was probably built ca. 1900. It could even be pre-1890 as a few Bedsteads were built in the 1880s. But, it could be as recent as ca. 1910.
Long forgotten road to this one today - not a lot of timber left, decorative piece for the locals
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ks/jackson/000430959503720/
Still a beauty in the trees. Will be fun to get some shots in the fall or winter with this one!