Richards Covered Bridge
Columbia County, Pennsylvania
and Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
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Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over South Branch Roaring Creek on Jepko Road
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1852
- Design
- Covered Queenpost through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 56.1 ft.
Total length: 64.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.2 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 1979
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.86750, -76.50817 (decimal degrees)
40°52'03" N, 76°30'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- WGCB 38-19-41 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
WGCB 38-49-07 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 30763 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 07/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 19.3 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
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