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Bells Mill Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Stone arch bridge over Wissahickon Creek on Bells Mill Road in Philadelphia
- Location
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1820
- Design
- Stone arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 29.9 ft.
Total length: 66.9 ft.
Deck width: 24.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.07922, -75.22538 (decimal degrees)
40°04'45" N, 75°13'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/480783/4436574 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Germantown
- Average daily traffic (as of 1980)
- 12,200
- Inventory numbers
- PA 67 7301 0120 0340 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 39218 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31507 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of April 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 42.6 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- March 17, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- August 1, 2019: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- March 9, 2014: Updated by Jodi Christman: Corrected typo on Wissahickon
- March 22, 2009: New photo from Raymond Klein
Sources
- Raymond Klein - Bookshelfthe [at] msn [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
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That's Wissahickon, with an "h".