Rating:
2 votes
Black Vermillion River Tumbleweed Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Black Vermillion River on Tumbleweed Road, 1.5 mi. west of Vliets
- Location
- Marshall County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1910
- Design
- Pin connected Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 109.9 ft.
Total length: 180.1 ft.
Deck width: 14.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.71141, -96.34985 (decimal degrees)
39°42'41" N, 96°20'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/727180/4399085 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Vermillion
- Land survey
- T. 4 S., R. 10 E., Sec. 7
- Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 80
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000580925103400 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 18031 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of June 2016)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 16.5 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- July 6, 2017: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- January 21, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Adjusted GPS Coordinates
- July 9, 2008: Updated by Robert Elder: Updated design description and categories.
- February 27, 2008: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited "Overview" and "Design"
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
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Great old thing, although, little doubtful whether this should be "open" for traffic because the day I visited, you could hear the planking bouncing around under the tires as I drove across, a bit precarious.....