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Colorado River Bridge

Colorado County, Texas

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TX 71 Colorado River Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in August 2009

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BH Photo #144819

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Overview
Through truss bridge over Colorado River on Business 71 F in Columbus
Location
Colorado County, Texas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1949
Design
Parker through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 225.1 ft.
Total length: 1,042.0 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.71306, -96.54750   (decimal degrees)
29°42'47" N, 96°32'51" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/737252/3289508 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Columbus
Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
4,820
Inventory numbers
TXNBI 130450026608043 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 32862 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of March 2017)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 55.2 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Bridgemapper.com (1,325)
Built 1949 (420)
Built during 1940s (4,233)
Colorado County, Texas (21)
Colorado River (Texas) (38)
Functionally obsolete (5,823)
Have street view (28,913)
Open (40,969)
 Owned by state (16,561)
Parker through truss (1,411)
Parker truss (1,806)
Span length 175-250 feet (2,057)
Texas (2,903)
Through truss (16,803)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,997)
Truss (35,485)

Update Log 

  • October 26, 2014: New photo from Larry D. Moore
  • April 19, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
  • August 10, 2009: New photos from C Hanchey

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Colorado River Bridge
Posted December 19, 2020, by Wbchloe (whbroadw [at] hotmail [dot] com)

They are building a new bridge along side this one. I don't know if the old one will remain.