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Barton Creek Bridge
Photos
General View of Bridge, Looking West
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #139633
Description
Constructed in 1890 across Barton Creek oriented east-west along main road from Stephenville (Erath County) to Gordon (Palo Pinto County).Bypassed in 1924 and replaced by a steel truss bridge oriented north-south erected on realigned road approximately 100 meters northeast.
The 1924 steel truss was replaced by the present prestressed concrete stringer bridge in 2004.
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned bridge over Barton Creek on CR 119
- Location
- Erath County, Texas
- Status
- Abandoned and severly deterioriated
- History
- Built 1890 by Runyon Bridge Co., bypassed and abandoned in 1924
- Builder
- - Runyon Bridge Co.
- Design
- Runyon-patent cable-stayed suspension bridge.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.0 ft.
Total length: 120.0 ft.
Deck width: 8.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.50609, -98.35062 (decimal degrees)
32°30'22" N, 98°21'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/560998/3596720 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Gordon
- Elevation
- 971 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 42498 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 1, 2014: Updated by M C Toyer: Update details and add new photos
- May 2, 2009: Added by Rick Mattioni
Sources
- Rick Mattioni
- HAER TX-87 - Barton Creek Bridge, Spanning Barton Creek, Huckabay vicinity, Erath County, TX
- M C Toyer - mctoyer [at] hotmail [dot] com
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Possibly located at or near 32.506744, -98.350019 will explore in 2 weeks. There is a shadow that resembles a suspension bridge below a steel frame crossing east to west at this location. HAER Photos also call out east to west alignment.
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