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Gorton Creek Bridge
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Gorton Creek Bridge
from northeast
Photo taken by Michael Goff on January 10, 2009
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BH Photo #132305
Description
In the Highway Commission biannual report of 1916-1917, it's stated that $2500.00 was budgeted to construct this bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Slab bridge over Gorton Creek on Herman Creek Road (Historical Columbia River Highway )
- Location
- Hood River County, Oregon
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1919
- Builders
- - A.D. Kern (Contractor)
- Lewis W. Metzger (Engineer)
- Design
- The Gorton Creek Bridge is a three span reinforced concrete slab bridge. The design is typical of other L.W. Metzger bridges on the Historical Columbia River Highway.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 20.0 ft.
Total length: 49.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +45.69028, -121.77250 (decimal degrees)
45°41'25" N, 121°46'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/595576/5060368 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Carson
- Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 66
- Inventory numbers
- ORNBI 27C35 605 00352 (Oregon bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 38506 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of September 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 59.1 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- March 20, 2021: New photos from Mike Garland
- April 3, 2013: New Street View added by Mike Goff
- February 9, 2009: Updated by Michael Goff: Fixed Typo
- January 12, 2009: Added by Michael Goff
Sources
- 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
- Mike Garland - Rapier342 [at] comcast [dot] net