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US36 Tuscarawas River Bridge
Description
Located at Gnadenhutten, this is the 2nd generation bridge out of 3 to be built. The 1st was located down river on Lock 17 Road. The 3 generation bridge is the one just finished by ODOT, made of concrete. The ceremony and rope cutting of the new bridge is today, November 18, 2016.Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Tuscarawas River on US 36 in Gnadenhutten
- Location
- Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
- Status
- Demolished by controlled explosion April 7, 2016
- History
- Built 1949 by the American Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 1995; demolished by explosives April 2016
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 220.2 ft.
Total length: 508.9 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.9 ft.
- Also called
- Gnadenhutten Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.36140, -81.44490 (decimal degrees)
40°21'41" N, 81°26'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/462224/4467965 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Gnadenhutten
- Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 5,083
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 7900333 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 28483 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2015)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 11.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- November 17, 2016: New Street View added by Ryan Freeland
- November 16, 2016: New photos from Ryan Freeland
- April 11, 2016: New photos from Mark Yurina
- April 7, 2016: New video from Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- November 19, 2015: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- April 9, 2014: New Street View added by James Baughn
Related Bridges
- Tuscarwas River Bridge (Upstream)
- CUOH - Tuscarawas River Bridge (Gnadenhutten) (Downstream)
- New Gnadenhutten Tuscarawas River Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- Janis Ford
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- Mark Yurina - markyurina [at] gmail [dot] com
- Ryan Freeland - ryan [dot] freeland1980 [at] gmail [dot] com
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I made my comments to Odot but ran into the usual ideas about the road needing to be widened and the need for proper vertical clearance.