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Walnut Creek Bridge

Ness County, Kansas

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Photo taken by Taylor Kesl

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BH Photo #515918

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Overview
Two span Pratt pony truss bridge over Walnut Creek on Burgess Avenue, 0.1 mi. east and 0.5 mi. south of K-96
Location
Bazine, Ness County, Kansas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1905; rehabilitated 1982
Builder
- Midland Bridge Co. of Kansas City, Missouri (Likely builder)
Design
Pratt pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 225.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 8.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.44246, -99.68776   (decimal degrees)
38°26'33" N, 99°41'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/439980/4255132 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Bazine
Land survey
T. 18 S., R. 21 W., Sec. 31
Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
60
Inventory numbers
KS 000680565505145 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 18315 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of December 2017)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 24.4 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Bazine, Kansas (1)
Built 1905 (827)
Built during 1900s (7,734)
Have street view (29,853)
Kansas (3,276)
Midland Bridge Co. (47)
Ness County, Kansas (9)
Open (41,199)
 Owned by county (21,710)
Pin-connected (5,033)
Pony truss (17,221)
Pratt pony truss (4,019)
Pratt truss (10,533)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,731)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,589)
Truss (36,693)

Update Log 

  • January 19, 2022: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
  • January 19, 2022: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
  • July 13, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth

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Walnut Creek Bridge
Posted January 19, 2022, by Nick Schmiedeler (nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com)

New photos from friend Taylor journeying out in Ness Co. this past weekend

Walnut Creek Bridge
Posted December 26, 2020, by Luke

Mike, nice research, however your articles are about a bridge to the Southwest of Bazine (I'd assume this is what is now the Austin Street crossing.), whilst this bridge is on the Southeast edge of said town.

HOWEVER, based on my own quick-but-dirty research on Newspapers, it wouldn't surprise me if Midland built it as well, given that Midland was winning contract after contract in the area with ease. (For non Newspapers users, they easily won bids to rebuild the bridges at Beeler and Sidney within Ness County in 1909.)

Walnut Creek Bridge
Posted December 26, 2020, by Mike Maxton (mikemaxton [at] maxtonfamily [dot] com)

1905 articles about this bridge.

Mike Maxton

Source: newspapers.com