Turtle Creek Bridge

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Overview: Bedstead pony truss bridge over Turtle Creek on 188th Street, 5 mi. south and 7.9 mi. west of Tulare in Buffalo Township
Location: Spink County, South Dakota
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1920; Replaced 2010
Builder: - Iowa Bridge Co. of Des Moines, Iowa
Design: Bedstead pony truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 65.0 ft.
Total length: 67.9 ft.
Deck width: 18.4 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 9, 1993
Approximate latitude, longitude: +44.66278, -98.66450 (decimal degrees)
44°39'46" N, 98°39'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 14/526597/4945545 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Tulare NW
Inventory numbers: NRHP 93001314 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
SD 58-021-400 (South Dakota structure number)
BH 32349 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 09/2014): Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 100.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2013): 21

Turtle Creek Bridge

Posted May 5, 2017, by Jason Straub (straub20 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Replaced between 2010 and 2012