Rating:
4 votes
Fairhaven Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Four Mile Creek on Fairhaven-Concord Road
- Location
- Preble County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced and moved to Preble County Historical Society property.
- History
- Built 1907
- Design
- Pin-connected, 6-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 86.9 ft.
Total length: 90.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.67741, -84.77191 (decimal degrees)
39°40'39" N, 84°46'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/691089/4394327 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Fairhaven
- Average daily traffic (as of 1969)
- 230
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 6836402 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 28258 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of March 2012)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 11.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- October 11, 2016: New photo from Janis Ford
- July 18, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Updated status
- June 25, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- February 16, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added GPS coordinates
- October 6, 2005: Posted photos from Jonathan Maxwell
Sources
- Jonathan Maxwell - themaxwellshouse [at] roadrunner [dot] com
- Janis Ford
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
Comments
Fairhaven Bridge
As I understand it, the bridge will be removed this week (9/17/13). It is to be reassembled on the grounds of the Preble County Historical Society.
Fairhaven Bridge
Yeah Nathan...I know.
But it will still NEVER make any sense!!
Fairhaven Bridge
Tony, you should know this... its probably one tiny little problem controlling the load limit... if they would fix that one thing, it might jump back to the old limit. Also, I know for a fact that sometimes highway agencies close truss bridges simply because they think they are a liability... even if inspections show they are safe.
Fairhaven Bridge
How do you go from a 24 ton rating to 0? Makes no sense to me!
Fairhaven Bridge
Sadly, I found the bridge closed when I visited 07/16/12.
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I was just at the preble county historical society yesterday and saw it piled up next to the creek. Pretty exciting. I think it will be a good home for this old guy.