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US 90 Cibolo Creek Bridge

Bexar County, Texas, and Guadalupe County, Texas

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State Highway 3-A Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in August 2009

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BH Photo #144729

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Overview
Through truss bridge over Cibolo Creek on I-10 North Frontage Road (old US 90) in Zuehl
Location
Zuehl, Bexar County, Texas, and Guadalupe County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1933 by the D. F. Jones Construction Co. for US 90. Retained for frontage road use when I-10/US-90 freeway built in 1962.
Builders
- D.F. Jones Construction Co. of Little Rock, Arkansas (Contractor)
- Houston Structural Steel Co. of Houston, Texas (Fabricator)
Design
One 120-foot Parker through truss span and six steel I-beam approach spans
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 120.1 ft.
Total length: 434.1 ft.
Deck width: 24.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.8 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1996
Also called
Cibolo Creek Bridge
State Highway 3-A Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.50143, -98.18648   (decimal degrees)
29°30'05" N, 98°11'11" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/578853/3263817 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Marion
Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
840
Inventory numbers
NRHP 96001112 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
TXNBI 150150002502011 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 32773 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of June 2016)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 49.3 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Bexar County, Texas (94)
Built 1933 (628)
Built during 1930s (11,377)
D.F. Jones Construction Co. (6)
Guadalupe County, Texas (12)
Have street view (25,982)
Houston Structural Steel Co. (3)
Interstate 10 (19)
NR-listed (2,885)
Open (38,825)
 Owned by state (15,380)
Parker through truss (1,261)
Parker truss (1,633)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,288)
Texas (2,402)
Through truss (14,422)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,047)
Truss (31,769)
US 90 (67)
Zuehl, Texas (1)

Update Log 

  • September 22, 2019: Updated by Roger Deschner: Bridge renamed for US 90, for which it was originally built, and which it still serves as a frontage road for the I-10/US-90 freeway
  • June 22, 2014: New photos from royce haley
  • June 16, 2013: Photo imported by Luke Harden
  • December 6, 2012: New Street View added by Jared Mixson
  • August 10, 2009: New photos from C Hanchey
  • July 13, 2009: Updated by C Hanchey: Added builder; bridge is known as the State Highway 3-A Bridge

Sources 

  • C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Jared
  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com

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