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Blanket Creek Bridge

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Note: The following information comes from the National Bridge Inventory and has not been verified.
Overview
Pony truss bridge over Blanket Creek on CR 306
Location
Brown County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1936
Design
Pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 61.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.8 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+31.67722, -98.77333   (decimal degrees)
31°40'38" N, 98°46'24" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/521484/3504681 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Zephyr
Inventory numbers
TXNBI 230250AA0306001 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 32792 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 02/2011)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 31.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
50

Categories 

Brown County, Texas (25)
Built 1936 (750)
Built during 1930s (8,574)
Functionally obsolete (7,054)
One-lane traffic (7,119)
Open (28,454)
Owned by county (16,526)
Pony truss (13,210)
Span length 50-75 feet (7,011)
Structurally deficient (16,728)
Texas (1,537)
Total length 50-75 feet (6,907)
Truss (23,609)

Comments 

Blanket Creek Bridge
Posted August 21, 2012, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

If anyone visits this bridge, do not be deterred by gates that you might find when trying to reach the bridge. It is a public road. News article: http://www.brownwoodtx.com/news/local/article_7505c2c2-eb40-11e1-bfc3-0019bb2963f4.html