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Elephant Butte Dam Bridge

Sierra County, New Mexico

Photos 

Elephant Butte Dam under construction 1914

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BH Photo #309978

Map 

Street View 

Video 

Elephant Butte Dam - Sierra County Centennial Video Series

This video tells the story of the Elephant Butte Dam (a National Historical Engineer Landmark with the ASCE) and how it came to be constructed in this particular location as opposed to on the U.S. / Mexico border. Life in the workers camp is described, as well as impacts the dam and its construction had on the town of Las Palomas Hot Springs (now the city of Truth or Consequences).

Centennial Video Series

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Facts 

Overview
Closed-spandrel arch bridge over Rio Grande on Nm52
Location
Mountain View, Sierra County, New Mexico
Status
Closed to all traffic
History
Built 1915
Design
Closed-spandrel arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 299.9 ft.
Deck width: 16.7 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 9, 1979
Approximate latitude, longitude
+33.15493, -107.19242   (decimal degrees)
33°09'18" N, 107°11'33" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
13/295531/3670603 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Elephant Butte
Inventory numbers
NRHP 79001556 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 64895 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of December 2014)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 68.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Arch (12,662)
Built 1915 (1,259)
Built during 1910s (9,973)
Closed (2,760)
Closed-spandrel arch (4,261)
Dam (57)
Deck arch (11,898)
Functionally obsolete (5,820)
Have street view (28,916)
 Mountain View, New Mexico (1)
NR-listed (3,014)
New Mexico (214)
Owned by federal government (1,287)
Rio Grande (40)
Sierra County, New Mexico (6)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,422)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,511)

Update Log 

  • January 1, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • December 20, 2014: New video from Dave King

Sources 

  • Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Geoff Hubbs

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