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Meadow Creek Bridge

Greene County, Tennessee
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Oblique Elevation, view to the Northwest. Note that the rails have been replaced.

Photo taken by Martha Carver, 2008

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Overview
Concrete arch bridge over Meadow Creek on Allens Bridge Road
Location
Greene County, Tennessee
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built ca. 1920
Design
Closed-spandrel arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 38.0 ft.
Total length: 41.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.1 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+36.05944, -82.91083   (decimal degrees)
36°03'34" N, 82°54'39" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/327900/3992231 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Cedar Creek
Inventory numbers
TN 30025780003 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 32533 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2011)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 45.8 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2012)
1,370

Categories 

Arch (9,418)
Built during 1920s (7,031)
Closed-spandrel arch (2,754)
Deck arch (8,695)
Functionally obsolete (7,036)
Greene County, Tennessee (25)
Have street view (9,883)
 One-lane traffic (7,111)
Open (28,305)
Owned by county (16,484)
Span length 25-50 feet (10,049)
Tennessee (770)
Total length 25-50 feet (7,628)

Update Log 

  • September 5, 2012: New photos from Martha Carver
  • November 26, 2011: New Street View added by Nathan Holth

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Meadow Creek Bridge
Posted November 26, 2011, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Would assume he is talking of this one:

http://bridgehunter.com/tn/jefferson/bh37371/

And the Dandridge Bridge:

http://bridgehunter.com/tn/jefferson/45SR0920005/

The latter is listed as being up for replacement, although they apparently did repair work on it last year. Nothing listed for the Walter Bridge currently.

I would hate to see either of these bridges replaced, but especially the Walter as it indeed has a very unique design. However, we are talking Tennessee here...so nothing would surprise me!

Meadow Creek Bridge
Posted November 26, 2011, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Mike,

The Average Daily Traffic is part of the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) data set. This is provided to the public by the FHWA in an encoded format and has been converted here as-is for information only. NBI data can be useful to learn basic facts about a bridge. Some of it can however be misleading, particularly the Inspection data included in the NBI data set. NBI Inspection data generally makes a historic bridge look worse than it is.

Could you elaborate on the 25E Replacement you refer to? The only 25E bridge I know of is the Walter Bridge, a unique and significant historic cantilever truss. Is this bridge up for replacement? More details would be appreciated. I would expect they would have to conduct a Section 106 process to consider alternatives to demolishing the historic bridge before they could replace it.

Meadow Creek Bridge
Posted November 25, 2011, by Mike A Underwood (maui [at] bellsouth [dot] net)

I crossed this bridge today and it is being replaced. You may already know that, if so please disregard.

I Am interested in 25E and 92 bridge replacement in jefferson county, also. Curious as to where you get your daily traffic counts from ? And what end purpose/ results you desire to achieve. I.E. Preservation and or secondary life chances for old bridges or just purely informative and educational. Either way, I have enjoyed your site for several hours and am very glad I stumbled across it, and will be back and tell others.

Thank You for providing it, as it it not provided to my knowledge, by the State, until after the fact. I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first.