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Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Little Darby Creek on Axe Handle Road (CR 87)
- Location
- Union County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1873; rehabilitated 1990
- Design
- Covered Partride through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 99.1 ft.
Total length: 100.1 ft.
Deck width: 12.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.5 ft.
- Also called
- Little Darby Covered Bridge WG Number 38-80-04
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.11617, -83.42500 (decimal degrees)
40°06'58" N, 83°25'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/293343/4443469 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Plumwood
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 35-80-04 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
ODOT 8032289 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure feature number)
BH 28485 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 02/2009)
- Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 47.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1951)
- 100
Sources
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
- Brian McKee - bjmckee51 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
Axe Handle Road Covered Bridge
I lived in close proximity to this bridge for 12 years. I am quite fascinated by the builder(Reuben Partridge) of this and other covered bridges in Union County, Ohio. I asked Christy Clark at Union Co. Visitors Bureau to try to find someone to write an article about Partridge and his work in that county. for next year's Covered Bridge Festival. Brian, would you be interested in doing such a service? I do know you are probably more familiar with these bridges than most anyone else. Harold