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Scioto River Bridge

Scioto County, Ohio
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View Looking Across Recently Cultivated Field, With Bridge In Distant Background

Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record

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Description 

This bridge was for many years the only highway bridge across the Scioto River in Scioto County. It thus provided a vital road link in addition to crating a bridge for the Portsmouth Street Railway and telephone lines for the Portsmouth Telephone Company. It has been selected as an historic bridge by the Ohio Department of Transportation. It is scheduled to be replaced by 1991, and federal highway funds have been requested for its replacements.

-- Historic American Engineering Record

Facts 

Overview
Lost Pennsylvania through truss bridge over Scioto River on SR Hwy. 73
Location
Scioto County, Ohio
Status
Replaced by new bridge
History
Built in 1915, replaced in 1994
Design
Pennsylvania through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 327.1 ft.
Total length: 1,505.0 ft.
Deck width: 24.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.73333, -83.01333   (decimal degrees)
38°43'60" N, 83°00'48" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/325001/4289109 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Friendship
Inventory numbers
ODOT 7303009 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 52699 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 01/1992)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 2.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1990)
6,490

Categories 

Built 1915 (966)
Built during 1910s (6,731)
Formerly NR-eligible (265)
Lost (10,374)
Lost 1994 (363)
Lost during 1990s (3,217)
Ohio (2,197)
Owned by state (9,811)
 Pennsylvania truss (308)
Replaced by new bridge (7,141)
Scioto County, Ohio (37)
Span length 250-500 feet (863)
Structurally deficient (16,683)
Through truss (9,211)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,217)
Truss (23,575)

Update Log 

  • June 22, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Fixed error in history information
  • June 22, 2012: Added by Jason Smith

Sources 

  • Jason Smith - JDSmith77 [at] gmx [dot] net
  • HAER OH-53 - Scioto Pennsylvania Through Truss Bridge, Spanning Scioto River at State Route 73, Portsmouth, Scioto County, OH
  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
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Scioto River Bridge
Posted June 22, 2012, by Todd D. Walker (mrwalk11 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

I got lucky enough to drive over this a few times. But in the mid 90's on the way to Ashland KY, I saw it being razed. There is a plaque in Portsmouth memorializing it at its concrete "cookie cutter" replacement.