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Rip Rap Road Bridge

Montgomery County, Ohio

Photos 

Overview

Photo taken by James Adorno

BH Photo #108386

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Great Miami River on Rip Rap Road
Location
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Status
Open to pedestrians only
History
Built 1923
Design
Pennsylvania through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 300.0 ft.
Total length: 306.0 ft.
Deck width: 18.0 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.84020, -84.16826   (decimal degrees)
39°50'25" N, 84°10'06" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/742296/4413859 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Dayton North
Inventory numbers
ODOT 5760577 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 28081 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1923 (580)
Built during 1920s (9,394)
Dayton, Ohio (32)
Great Miami River (43)
Have street view (25,079)
Montgomery County, Ohio (48)
NR-eligible (4,001)
Ohio (3,095)
Open to pedestrians (3,773)
 Owned by county (19,769)
Pennsylvania truss (428)
Road-to-trail (100)
Select (530)
Span length 250-500 feet (1,104)
Structurally deficient (16,791)
Through truss (13,866)
Total length 250-500 feet (4,839)
Truss (30,973)

Update Log 

  • April 11, 2016: New photos from Mark Yurina
  • July 6, 2014: New photos from James McCray
  • March 31, 2010: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Added Google Street View.
  • March 23, 2010: Updated by Nathan Holth: Merged 1992 NBI Data Into Bridge Page
  • February 16, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added GPS coordinates
  • January 7, 2006: Posted photo from James Adorno

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Rip Rap Road Bridge
Posted May 7, 2006, by beverly sturgeon (littlebevi [at] aol [dot] com)

just found a geocas site on this bridge.

use to drive it all the time, seems strange now.

Mrs. B

from Northridge, Ohio

5-7-06