Rating:
32470
{75}%
6 votes
Byrds Creek Bridge
Photos
Cumberland Park Bridge
Don't remember exactly when I took this -- maybe about 2000?
Photo taken by Jim Grey
BH Photo #143409
Description
Built between 1935 and 1940 by Company 3464 of the CCC. The dam, built of native sandstone, is 28 feet high and 319 feet long, making it the largest masonry project completed by the CCC.
Facts
- Overview
- 7-span stone arch bridge over dam that impounds Byrds Creek on State Highway 419 in Cumberland Mountain State Park
- Location
- Cumberland County, Tennessee
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1936, located within the National Register-listed Cumberland Homesteads Historic District
- Builder
- - Civilian Conservation Corps
- Design
- Stone arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 19.0 ft.
Total length: 317.8 ft.
Deck width: 21.6 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.90056, -84.99833 (decimal degrees)
35°54'02" N, 84°59'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/680643/3974769 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Dorton
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 1,780
- Inventory numbers
- TN 18011660001 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 32470 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of March 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 69.8 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- August 19, 2018: Updated by Clark Vance: History information
- August 19, 2018: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- March 8, 2017: New photos from Susan Wyrick
- April 8, 2015: Photo imported by Dave King
- July 10, 2014: New photos from Andrew Raker
- April 15, 2011: New photos from Jim Grey
- June 14, 2010: New photos from Calvin Sneed
- April 20, 2010: New Street View added by James Baughn
- July 24, 2009: New photo from Jim Grey
Sources
- Jim Grey - mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com
- Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Andrew Raker
- Susan Wyrick
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- Wikipedia - Park history, including bridge.
My sons don't know this, but we spent our spring break this year in this park in large part so I could see this bridge again! I added some photos I took while there last week.