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Overview: Covered bridge over Eagle Creek on North Pole Road (CR 13)
Location: Brown County, Ohio
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1875; rehabilitated 1965; damaged by flooding in 1997
Design: Covered Smith through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 153.9 ft.
Total length: 166.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 10.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +38.75000, -83.77317 (decimal degrees)
38°45'00" N, 83°46'23" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: ODOT 833126 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure feature number)
WGCB 35-08-23 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 27329 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 12/2005): 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: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 22.6 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1951): 300

North Pole Covered Bridge

Posted October 30, 2007, by Bill Eichelberger (wallyum [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Photo circa 1986