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Sycamore Creek Bridge
Description
The Sycamore Creek Bridge is the last surviving bridge employing a Pratt half-hip pony truss in Hamilton County.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost pony truss bridge over Sycamore Creek on CR 288
- Location
- Hamilton County, Texas
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1911; Replaced 1997
- Builder
- - Montague S. Hasie of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
- Design
- Half-hip Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 48.9 ft.
Total length: 86.9 ft.
Deck width: 11.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +31.68944, -97.97583 (decimal degrees)
31°41'22" N, 97°58'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/597065/3506469 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cutoff Mountain
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 35
- Inventory numbers
- TXNBI 090980AA0288001 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 42054 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of March 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 97 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 16, 2015: HAER photos posted by Dave King
Sources
- HAER TX-58 - Sycamore Creek Bridge, Spanning Sycamore Creek at County Route 288, Hamilton, Hamilton County, TX