Oregonia Road Bridge
Photos
Oregonia Road Bridge Ohio2
Photo taken by Warren County Engineer's Office prior to March 12, 2001
View this photo at geocaching.com
BH Photo #352421
Description
Pictures here:http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2W2MM_lmst-oregonia-roa...
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Lenticular through truss bridge over Little Miami River on Oregonia Road
- Location
- Oregonia, Warren County, Ohio
- Status
- Collapsed
- History
- Built 1883; closed 1990; replaced 1994 by bridge on new alignment; collapsed March 12, 2001
- Builder
- - Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut
- Design
- Lenticular through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 212.0 ft.
Total length: 215.9 ft.
Deck width: 14.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.45237, -84.09819 (decimal degrees)
39°27'09" N, 84°05'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/749685/4370997 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Oregonia
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 8330085 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 63159 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 14, 2022: New photos from Paul Plassman
- February 18, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added Rick's photos
- February 12, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added categories "Little Miami River", "One-lane traffic", "Pin-connected", "13-panel truss"
- December 26, 2019: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- April 25, 2016: Updated by James Baughn: Added NBI data from 1992
- April 24, 2016: New photos from Art Suckewer
- September 26, 2014: Added by Art Suckewer
Sources
- Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Paul Plassman
Comments
Sounds like something I would probably do....
This had to have been one of the great losses to bridge history in Ohio. If it still survived, it would easily be one of the state's most significant bridges.
March 2001. Some sad shots, including one where some idiot snapped from under the bridge...
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, March 2001, plus the scene in May of '01.
I remember jumping off the top of this bridge
I would guess it was about 225 feet long.
I took some photos of it not too long before the abutment failed and it collapsed. My daughter was a toddler cause I remember her chasing butterflies under it. Unfortunately I found out after that not to rely on 1 hard drive to store pics on. I think some of them got printed but I haven't come across them yet.
This must have been one of the longer spanning lenticulars built.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/warren/oregonia-road/
I was at the bridge in the Summer of 2000 with my family. My first experience seeing a Lenticular truss and it definitely didn't disappoint! I remember noting how bad the one abutment was hoping they would do something to rectify it... sadly that didn't happen.