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Birch Creek Road Bridge
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Description
The Birch Creek Road Bridge is a unique structure in that it is the only known all welded truss bridge in Oregon constructed prior to the 1960’s. The 110-foot bridge utilizes all welded connections throughout the truss members with no bolts or rivets used to connect the members. The bridge was fabricated by West Cost Steel Works of Portland, Oregon and is the only one of its type known to exist in the state or Oregon.Facts
- Overview
- Pratt pony truss bridge over Walla Walla River on Birch Creek Road
- Location
- Umatilla County, Oregon
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1956
- Builder
- - West Coast Steel Works (Fabricator)
- Design
- Welded Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 109.9 ft.
Total length: 111.9 ft.
Deck width: 21.7 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +45.97673, -118.37643 (decimal degrees)
45°58'36" N, 118°22'35" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/393375/5092382 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Bowlus Hill
- Inventory numbers
- ORNBI 59C483055000006 (Oregon bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 30141 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 08/2011)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 15.3 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 518
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