Middle Cedar Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Middle Cedar Creek, 1.0 mi. north and 1.0 mi. west of Kensington
- Location
- Smith County, Kansas
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1900, bypassed 2000
- Builder
- - Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works of Leavenworth, Kansas
- Design
- Half-hip Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 28.9 ft.
Total length: 51.8 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.78671, -99.04806 (decimal degrees)
39°47'12" N, 99°02'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/495884/4404085 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kensington
- Land survey
- T. 3 S., R. 15 W., Sec. 17
- Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 20
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000920639003300 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 18579 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of February 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 62.6 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- December 24, 2017: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- December 24, 2017: Updated by Dana and Kay Klein: Set Pin
Sources
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
Comments
The Kansas Default Date is a bit funny in this case. Ca. 1910 although the plaque says 1900. Hmmm...
Hats off to Smith County for saving it.
Happy Pontist Holidays to you and yours also!
Whoops!! Dana and Kay !!
Great, thanks for changing pin (again) Dana and Kim!! Happy Pontist Holidays !! 🎅🌉
This one is great...saved by Smith County quite a while back considering old and weathered condition of bridge replacement few feet from it to the east. Current pin drop incorrect also as of 12/24/17, this 1900-plaque-adorned bridge is actually just a few feet west of B Rd. just off 160 Rd, 2/3 of the way up north to 1st driveway that runs west (see satellite photo also). Leavenworth, KS-produced pony, pretty dinged up but neat attraction heading out of Kensington north and west.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ks/smith/920639003300/
Continuing with the holiday theme, I hope everybody had a Merry Christmas and a great holiday season. Hopefully 2018 will bring us lots of preservation success stories. 2017 saw the preservation of a great Bowstring bridge in Arkansas.
This bridge is another example of a truss type that would not have likely been built much after 1910. As the steel mills began producing larger beams, the stringer bridge became a practical option for small crossings like this.
I noticed that the company that built this bridge was still operating under the name Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works. They had not changed the name to Missouri Valley Bridge company yet.