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TX276 Two Mile Bridge
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Two Mile Bridge [old]
Two Mile Bridge over Lake Tawakoni, an impoundment of the Sabine River in southeastern Hunt County, TX. Built in 1959. View is looking southeast from the Rainbow Point SRA Public Boat Ramp parking lot.
Photo taken by Audrie Mallory in February 2012
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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Description
According to Texas A&M, when constructed, this was the longest bridge in the nation carrying a Farm-to-Market road.
Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Lake Tawakoni; Sabine River on TX Hwy 276
- Location
- West Tawakoni, Hunt County, Texas, and Rains County, Texas
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Future prospects
- New bridge is currently nearing completion parallel to the old bridge. The old bridge will be demolished once the new bridge is open.
- History
- Built 1959
- Builder
- - Cage Bros. of Bishop, Texas
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 40.0 ft.
Total length: 9,600.5 ft. (1.8 mi.)
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.90503, -95.99157 (decimal degrees)
32°54'18" N, 95°59'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/220188/3644728 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lone Oak South
- Inventory numbers
- TXNBI 011170064101019 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 69888 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 3, 2015: Added by Audrie Mallory
The new bridge has been built and it appears the old one has been demolished. I crossed it recently and I saw no signs of an older bridge.