Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Bens Creek on TR 634 (Covered Bridge Road)
- Location
- Somerset County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1877; rehabilitated 1978
- Design
- Covered Burr arch-truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 53.2 ft.
Total length: 56.1 ft.
Deck width: 10.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 9.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1980
- Also called
- Bens Creek Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.28117, -78.96406 (decimal degrees)
40°16'52" N, 78°57'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- PA 55 7205 0634 3017 (Pennsylvania bridge number)
NRHP 80003637 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
WGCB 38-56-11 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 31622 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 02/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 55.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
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