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Ballard Road Covered Bridge

Greene County, Ohio
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Overview

Photo taken 2005 by Gregory S. Hamilton

Map 

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Facts 

Overview
Covered bridge over North Fork Caesars Creek on Ballard Road (TR 6)
Location
Greene County, Ohio
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1883 by J.C. Brown
Design
Covered Howe through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 74.2 ft.
Total length: 79.1 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.3 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1975
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.67800, -83.81500   (decimal degrees)
39°40'41" N, 83°48'54" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/258569/4395807 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Cedarville
Inventory numbers
ODOT 2934744 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
WGCB 35-29-18 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 75001408 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 27581 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 11/2011)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 22.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1998)
10

Categories 

19th Century (3,822)
Built 1883 (84)
Built during 1880s (1,045)
Covered (925)
Greene County, Ohio (20)
Howe through truss (203)
Howe truss (249)
NR-listed (2,354)
Ohio (2,197)
 One-lane traffic (7,112)
Open (28,319)
Owned by county (16,492)
Span length 50-75 feet (6,996)
Structurally deficient (16,683)
Through truss (9,211)
Total length 75-100 feet (4,795)
Truss (23,575)
Wooden deck (5,398)

Update Log 

  • March 5, 2013: New photos from Jeffery A Barnes
  • November 12, 2011: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
  • January 12, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
  • January 23, 2006: Posted photos from Gregory S. Hamilton

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Ballard Road Covered Bridge
Posted September 17, 2010, by Jerry Dean (dean330 [at] bellsouth [dot] net)

I am a Knoxville, Tennessee, resident and retired journalist whose father, Joseph Edward Dean, late of Arkansas, was born in January 1900 in Xenia, Ohio. He grew up near this 1883 covered bridge, just off Old US 35. The bridge was a landmark when, as a lad, Joe explored the Dean family farm near Ballard Road. Joe was a fifth-generation descendant of Daniel Dean, an early Greene County pioneer from Ulster who brought his family from Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, to Ohio in 1812. A miller, he settled on 2,000 acres divided later among his 11 children. His progeny included my great-great grandfather, the elder Joseph Dean, who built a substantial home, still standing at 199 Ballard Road. Also born there was Joseph Newton Dean who, as a teenager, enlisted to fight with the 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. A lawyer, he later became Ohio Probate Judge for Greene County. Nearby is Dean Cemetery where Daniel, our progenitor, now lies with his Virginia-born wife, Jannett Steele Dean. I hope Ohio will preserve this historic structure over Caesar's Creek for generations to come.

Ballard Road Covered Bridge
Posted August 6, 2006, by Mary Johnson (merriejay [at] hotmail [dot] com)

It's nice to see this old bridge is still standing. I grew up in the area and haven't seen the bridge in over 40 yrs., but it still looks the same. The bridge was a turnaround point on our long school bus ride. I live in New Jersey now..you don't see covered bridges here. Enjoyed the photo.