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South Branch Wild Rice River Bridge

Clay County, Minnesota

Photo 

Photo taken by Joe Fishbein

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BH Photo #253372

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Pratt Pony truss bridge over South Branch Wild Rice River on CR 183
Location
Clay County, Minnesota
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1915
Design
Pratt pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 47.9 ft.
Total length: 50.9 ft.
Deck width: 17.1 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+47.10583, -96.30111   (decimal degrees)
47°06'21" N, 96°18'04" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/704773/5220459 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Ulen
Average daily traffic (as of 1986)
18
Inventory numbers
MN 1850 (Minnesota bridge number)
BH 20333 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of June 2018)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 40.6 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Built 1915 (1,264)
Built during 1910s (10,014)
Clay County, Minnesota (41)
Minnesota (1,652)
One-lane traffic (7,921)
Open (41,013)
Owned by township (3,304)
 Pony truss (17,078)
Pratt pony truss (3,985)
Pratt truss (10,403)
Span length 25-50 feet (16,274)
Structurally deficient (12,827)
Total length 50-75 feet (9,627)
Truss (35,926)

Update Log 

  • May 8, 2013: New photo from Luke Harden
  • December 2, 2012: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
  • January 30, 2012: Updated by Jason Smith: This bridge is closed to all traffic

Sources 

  • Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
  • John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Luke
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Comments 

South Branch Wild Rice River Bridge
Posted May 7, 2013, by Joe Fishbein (jmf [at] visi [dot] com)

Bridge 1850 is open to traffic. We did a fracture-critical inspection on it today. A section of approach road south of the bridge that had been washed out has been repaired with concrete pavement and a lot of rip-rap.