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Facts
- Overview
- Pair of cantilevered through truss bridges over the Ohio River on US 41
- Location
- Henderson County, Kentucky
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Northbound bridge built 1932; southbound built 1965
- Design
- Cantilevered through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 720.0 ft.
Total length: 5,393.6 ft.
Deck width: 29.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 19.8 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- John James Audubon Bridge (official name)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.90417, -87.55056 (decimal degrees)
37°54'15" N, 87°33'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory number
- BH 18816 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 05/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Not deficient
Sufficiency rating: 73.6 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 37,607
Comments
Evansville Bridge
My grandfather, AV Burch Sr lobbied for many years and finally was successful after being appointed to the Indiana highway commission, in getting the State of Indiana and Kentucky to construct the bridge from Evansville to Henerson. The complaint from Kentucky was that their residents would cross the bridge to shop and spend money in Evansville.
Evansville Bridge
We used to call these the "singing" bridges. They used to have some sort of metal links for the road bed and made a funny sound when you drove over them.
But the metal is gone and now it has a concrete roadbed.