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Larimore Road Bridge
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Photo taken by Janis Ford
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BH Photo #216668
Description
Replaced with a modern Warren pony truss
Facts
- Overview
- Relocated Pratt pony truss bridge originally over North Fork Licking River on Larimore Road (TH 176)
- Location
- Knox County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge; moved to Knox County Historical Society grounds and re-erected
- History
- Built ca. 1890's; replaced 2012 by modern truss; trusses relocated to Knox County Historical Society grounds in Mount Vernon and recently re-erected
- Builder
- - Mt. Vernon Bridge Co. of Mt. Vernon, Ohio
- Design
- 6-panel, pinned Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 79.1 ft.
Total length: 82.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.27508, -82.58583 (decimal degrees)
40°16'30" N, 82°35'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/365175/4459495 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Homer
- Average daily traffic (as of 1980)
- 30
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 4236734 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 27818 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of November 2009)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 21.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- November 30, 2021: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder per Facebook post.
- November 30, 2021: Updated by Paul Plassman: Bridge was not lost, but salvaged and relocated
- September 28, 2021: Updated by Nathan Holth: Removed ca. 1910 data. The builder and year built are not documented by available county records.
- September 27, 2021: Updated by Paul Plassman: Edited info
- September 10, 2015: Updated by Nathan Holth: This bridge is demolished and replaced.
Not lost after all!
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3330678423...
It appears the trusses of this bridge was salvaged when a new bridge was erected on Larimore Road back in 2012 and have been re-erected on the Knox County Historical Society grounds.
You can see the trusses on satellite view: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.379309,-82.5084464,174m/data...
They appear to have been erected since then according to the Facebook information.