North Fork Quartz Creek Bridge

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Photo taken by Michael Goff on October 19, 2009

BH Photo #147932

Overview: Steel stringer bridge over North Fork Quartz Creek on U.S. 26
Location: Clatsop County, Oregon
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1939
Builder: - Glenn S. Paxson of Salem, Oregon (State Bridge Engineer)
Design: The North Fork Quartz Creek Bridge is a 14-span steel deck girder bridge with steel truss towers. This type of structure was common in Oregon in the later 1930's. Other examples of this type of structure are the Necarney Creek Bridge on US 101 in Tillamook County, and the replaced Whitewater Creek Bridge in Marion County.
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 105.0 ft.
Total length: 835.0 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Recognition: Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude: +45.84139, -123.51778 (decimal degrees)
45°50'29" N, 123°31'04" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 10/459792/5076555 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Elsie
Average daily traffic (as of 2014): 6,000
Inventory numbers: OR 02164 (Oregon Dept. of Transportation structure number)
BH 43520 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of September 2016): Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 42.4 (out of 100)
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