Fivemile Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Railroad bridge over Fivemile Creek
- Location
- Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.29385, -94.90682 (decimal degrees)
39°17'38" N, 94°54'25" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/335564/4351119 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Leavenworth
- Land survey
- T. 9 S., R. 22 E., Sec. 1
- Elevation
- 770 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 76383 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
Comments
Bit disappointing, slightly similar to this one in Wyandotte Co., this is no more than a pipe-hanger bridge https://bridgehunter.com/ks/wyandotte/bh45080/ . Although there are signs of a timber bridge being in this spot at one time, currently there is only the pipe/garbage dam. Possible there is a low-water paved crossing under the muck which may have been visible at one time via satellite
Good catch. I suspect that this is a plate girder, but I don't know for sure.
The 1951 topo shows a rail spur running north from here to join the MoPac line running along the river.
After a careful review of aerial imagery, I still can't tell for sure what we have here. It appears to be roughly 50 - 60 feet in length, although it could be as long as 70 feet, depending on how much of it is hiding in the trees.
This one is a true mystery. There is an old bridge of some sort over Fivemile Creek. It may be plate girder, slab, or perhaps a small pony truss.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ks/leavenworth/fivemile-creek/
Thanks for trudging out there. It looked pretty neat from aerial imagery.