TX174 Brazos River Bridge
Photos
TX 174 Brazos River Bridge
Taken from Kimball Bend Park.
Photo taken by Gail Hurley Oct. 2010
BH Photo #192482
Facts
- Overview
- Deck truss bridge over Brazos River on TX 174
- Location
- Hill County, Texas, and Bosque County, Texas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1950
- Design
- Deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 201.1 ft.
Total length: 1,294.0 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.12389, -97.49083 (decimal degrees)
32°07'26" N, 97°29'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/642364/3555165 (zone/easting/northing)
- Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
- 2,640
- Inventory numbers
- TXNBI 091100051902005 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 33099 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of January 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 48.7 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- March 20, 2022: New Street View added by Roger Deschner
- March 19, 2022: New photos from Bambi Sharkoman
- March 17, 2022: New Street View added by Bambi Sharkoman
- April 8, 2020: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- January 17, 2011: New photos from Scott Wiley
Sources
- Scott Wiley - fifty [dot] fathoms [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- TX-174 Bridge (Kimball's Bend Bridge) - HistoricBridges.org
- Jesse Sharkoman Berube - jesseberube5 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
the bridge does have one lane traffic lights installed unfortunately i forgot to take pictures of said lights
Sam,
The bridge was open to traffic when I visited the bridge in 2019. It shows green on Google Maps Traffic which would suggest the bridge remains open as of today.
I also did a Google search for the bridge and found an article indicating that as of 2020 it may be run as a one-lane bridge controlled by signals.
https://www.kxxv.com/one-direction-of-travel-for-sh-174-brid...
I do think this bridge is eventually slated for replacement but I have no idea when, perhaps years from now.
Is the bridge over the Brazos open for traffic? This page says open, but not dated.
Thanks so much.
Sam
The bridge has been converted to a one lane bridge with alternating directional lights
That style of postcard was common in the 1930s-late 1960s
...that postcard really dates to the 50s? (This bridge has a build year of 1950.) Seems like it'd be older than that.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/tx/hill/91100051902005/
Jesse - I found the signal lights on Google Street View and posted them.
They look like the type that are often used temporarily for one-lane construction areas, connected to one another by radio signals. They appear to be solar powered. Therefore there was no need to run power lines to them or a signal line between them, which greatly reduced the expense. These units are mass produced, so they probably weren't very costly, even in a semi-permanent installation.
This also means that if a decision is made in the future to revert to two-way traffic on the bridge, they can be removed very easily, and reused elsewhere.