TX174 Brazos River Bridge

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TX 174 Brazos River Bridge

Taken from Kimball Bend Park.

Photo taken by Gail Hurley Oct. 2010

BH Photo #192482

Overview: Deck truss bridge over Brazos River on TX 174
Location: Hill County, Texas
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1950
Design: Deck truss
Dimensions: 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)
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TX174 Brazos River Bridge

Posted August 9, 2020, by Anonymous

The bridge has been converted to a one lane bridge with alternating directional lights

TX174 Brazos River Bridge

Posted April 8, 2020, by Luke

That style of postcard was common in the 1930s-late 1960s

TX174 Brazos River Bridge

Posted April 8, 2020, by Mike Kerkau (mjkerkau [at] gmail [dot] com)

...that postcard really dates to the 50s? (This bridge has a build year of 1950.) Seems like it'd be older than that.