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Hayden Covered Bridge 37-02-05 #2
Description
Spanning the Alsea River only two miles west of Alsea, the Hayden Bridge is one of the oldest in the state. The span was either partially or totally rebuilt in 1945. Its portals, once rounded in design, have been enlarged to a more modern design to facilitate larger loads. Vertical board and batten siding flares out at the base, similar to Lincoln County covered spans. A daylighting window strip below the roofline on both sides of the bridge illuminates the interior.Alsea was a river community as early as 1850, known as Alseya settlement. The name is derived from the name of an Indian tribe living at the mouth of the river, originally pronounced in three syllables.
During the heyday of covered bridge construction, several of the covered structures were built close by on the Alsea River and its tributary. Oregon's last covered span on a primary state highway, the Mill Creek Bridge on Oregon Highway 34, stood just two miles away. Only the Hayden Bridge remains.
(Reference: Roofs Over Rivers, by Bill and Nick Cockrell)
Facts
- Overview
- Covered Howe through truss bridge over Alsea River on Hayden Road
- Location
- Benton County, Oregon
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1945
- Design
- Covered Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 90.9 ft.
Total length: 150.9 ft.
Deck width: 17.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.8 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.38317, -123.63100 (decimal degrees)
44°22'59" N, 123°37'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/449736/4914625 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Grass Mountain
- Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 102
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 37-02-05 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 79002034 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
OR 14538 (Oregon Dept. of Transportation structure number)
BH 29839 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of July 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 27.8 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- April 10, 2018: New photos from Richard Doody
- March 9, 2014: Updated by Dave King: Added street view & imported photos
Sources
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon - Dwight A. Smith, James B. Norman & Pieter T. Dykman, Oregon Historical Society Press, 1989
- Hayden Covered Bridge - Oregon Covered Bridge Guide
- Wikipedia - Hayden Covered Bridge
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Richard Doody
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