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Charles Thompson Bridge

Hickman County, Tennessee
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Photo taken June 2005 by David Backlin

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Overview
Parker through truss bridge over Duck River on TN 50 near Centerville
Location
Hickman County, Tennessee
Status
Open to two-lane traffic
History
Built 1951
Design
Parker through truss, with K-panels
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 241.1 ft.
Total length: 1,206.7 ft.
Deck width: 25.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.4 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.78434, -87.52294   (decimal degrees)
35°47'04" N, 87°31'23" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/452740/3960155 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Whitfield
Inventory numbers
TN 41SR0500009 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 32569 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 06/2011)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 20.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
1,740

Categories 

Built 1951 (159)
Built during 1950s (2,382)
Duck River (Tennessee) (21)
Have street view (9,891)
Hickman County, Tennessee (7)
Open (28,315)
Owned by state (9,808)
Parker through truss (947)
 Parker truss (1,267)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,484)
Structurally deficient (16,678)
TN 50 (3)
Tennessee (770)
Through truss (9,209)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,215)
Truss (23,573)

Update Log 

  • March 17, 2013: New photo from Johnny C Barrett
  • July 12, 2010: New Street View added by Calvin Sneed
  • June 1, 2010: Updated by David Backlin: Revised GPS
  • February 2, 2010: Updated by Calvin Sneed: Some Parkers in Tennessee were built with K-Panels (this was one of them), but the state says, that did not make them K-Parkers. They're call K-hybrids, but are still Parker trusses only.
  • December 13, 2009: Updated by Matthew Ridpath: This is actually a K-Parker through truss
  • July 10, 2005: Posted photos from David Backlin

Sources 

  • David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
  • Matthew Ridpath
  • Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Johnny C Barrett - jcarsonbarrett [at] gmail [dot] com
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Charles Thompson Bridge
Posted November 7, 2009, by Mrs. Thomas (nthomasbridges [at] hotmail [dot] com)

This is a very unsafe bridge. It is a bike route that you can't ride across for fear of getting run over. You can't run across for fear of getting hit and killed. You can't even drive across in you car without fear. 18 wheeler big rigs go way to fast and are most always across both yellow lines and miss your car by 1/2 an inch. Please help us get a bigger, safer and cleaner bridge. It always has so much trash, bricks and rocks on it that it is that much more unsafe. Someone is going to get killed. I have 3 children and 3 grandchildren. We are trying to be healthy by running marathons and riding bikes. We can't use the bridge which is 4 miles from town. I hate my children having to drive across it several times a day. Please help us get a new bridge. This is Terrible. Please HELP