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Minnesota River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Minnesota River on a pedestrian path in Ortonville
- Location
- Big Stone County, Minnesota
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- Future prospects
- Bridge was renovated for pedestrian use and is now open.
- History
- Built 1920
- Builders
- - Marsh Engineering Co. of Des Moines, Iowa
- Minneapolis Bridge Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Design
- Marsh Rainbow Arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 50.2 ft.
Total length: 78.7 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +45.29528, -96.44389 (decimal degrees)
45°17'43" N, 96°26'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/700422/5018931 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ortonville
- Inventory numbers
- MN 3398 (Minnesota bridge number)
BH 20304 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 5, 2016: Updated by Clark Vance: Added category "Marsh arch"
- January 5, 2011: Updated by Jason Smith: Added/Changed information on the bridge
Sources
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- John Weeks
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mn/big-stone/3398/
Yeah, they were confused for sure--the Whetstone River, which goes into MN from SD, flows into the Minnesota River just west of this bridge on the MN side.