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Burt County Toll Bridge

Burt County, Nebraska, and Monona County, Iowa
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Main span

Main span, from the southwest.

Photo taken by Roger Deschner in October 2012

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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Overview
Through truss toll bridge over Missouri River on NE 51/IA 175 at Decatur
Location
Decatur, Burt County, Nebraska, and Monona County, Iowa
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1950
Design
Cantilevered Warren through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 421.0 ft.
Total length: 1,956.0 ft.
Deck width: 23.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.0 ft.
Also called
Decatur Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.00667, -96.24192   (decimal degrees)
42°00'24" N, 96°14'31" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/728402/4654197 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Onawa SW
Inventory numbers
IA 36810 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 23822 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 06/2010)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 30.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
1,715

Categories 

Built 1950 (384)
Built during 1950s (2,382)
Burt County, Nebraska (7)
Cantilevered (241)
Cantilevered truss (221)
Decatur, Nebraska (1)
Deck truss (953)
Functionally obsolete (7,036)
Have street view (9,887)
IA 175 (2)
Iowa (3,501)
MO 51 (7)
Missouri River (95)
 Monona County, Iowa (31)
Navigable waterway (1,448)
Nebraska (1,159)
Open (28,305)
Owned privately (543)
Span length 250-500 feet (863)
State line crossing (513)
Through truss (9,205)
Toll (115)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,213)
Truss (23,566)
Warren through truss (926)
Warren truss (3,957)

Update Log 

  • December 15, 2012: New photos from Roger Deschner
  • June 30, 2011: New Street View added by Jason Smith

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Burt County Toll Bridge
Posted December 15, 2012, by Roger Deschner

This bridge was closed from June 27 to November 2, 2011, due to the Missouri River flood. Full info from Iowa Dept Transportation here: http://www.news.iowadot.gov/newsandinfo/2011/11/iowa-175-between-decatur-neb-and-onawa-iowa-to-be-reopened-tonight-moriver.html