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Mill Road Bridge

Darke County, Ohio
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Photo taken by Anthony Dillon in July 2008

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Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Greenville Creek on TR 385 in Gettysburg
Location
Darke County, Ohio
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1881 by the Massillon Bridge Co.
Builder
- Massillon Bridge Co. of Massillon, Ohio
Design
Whipple through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 131.9 ft.
Total length: 137.1 ft.
Deck width: 18.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.0 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.10820, -84.50025   (decimal degrees)
40°06'30" N, 84°30'01" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/713052/4442761 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Gettysburg
Inventory numbers
ODOT 1945696 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 27495 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 08/2011)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 28.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1951)
200

Categories 

19th Century (3,819)
Built 1881 (57)
Built during 1880s (1,044)
Darke County, Ohio (9)
Massillon Bridge Co. (87)
NR-eligible (3,749)
Ohio (2,197)
One-lane traffic (7,111)
Open (28,309)
 Owned by county (16,488)
Reserve (27)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,954)
Structurally deficient (16,678)
Through truss (9,205)
Total length 125-175 feet (4,136)
Truss (23,566)
Whipple truss (154)

Update Log 

  • February 11, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
  • July 23, 2008: New photos from Anthony Dillon

Sources 

  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Janis Ford
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Mill Road Bridge
Posted May 21, 2012, by Sherman Cahal (shermancahal [at] gmail [dot] com)

Yep, was right. It will be reopened to pedestrians and cyclists.

http://www.countynewsonline.org/news/2012/jan/engineer-report-2011.html

Mill Road Bridge
Posted May 21, 2012, by Sherman Cahal (shermancahal [at] gmail [dot] com)

The Mill Road Bridge has been rehabilitated, but subsequently closed to traffic. It it is connected to a bike path that leads into downtown Gettysburg, and from there, a rail-to-trail that currently leads eastward. A trail extension to the west, on the old PRR, will provide connectivity to other systems.

But until that trail is completed, a bike route is signed along Bridge Street via a two-lane route and on some other back roads. Mill Road would be a reroute of that.

For some reason, they put up barricades so that it takes some effort to climb over and get onto the bridge. It's open to pedestrians (and I presume cyclists), but it's just easier to take Bridge Street.

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