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Hillebrandt Bayou Bridge

Jefferson County, Texas

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Photo taken by Patrick Feller

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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BH Photo #248262

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Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Swing bridge over Hillebrandt Bayou on FM 365 in Port Arthur
Location
Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1953
Design
Swing
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 779.9 ft.
Deck width: 25.6 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.91361, -94.06833   (decimal degrees)
29°54'49" N, 94°04'06" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/396869/3309692 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Port Acres
Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
4,080
Inventory numbers
TXNBI 201240093201011 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 33132 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of July 2018)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 42.8 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Built 1953 (330)
Built during 1950s (3,859)
Deck girder (5,778)
Functionally obsolete (6,365)
Girder (10,301)
Have street view (27,072)
Jefferson County, Texas (25)
Lost (25,008)
Movable (2,989)
 Owned by state (16,055)
Plate girder (7,985)
Port Arthur, Texas (10)
Replaced by new bridge (16,798)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,104)
Steel grate deck (450)
Swing (1,466)
Texas (2,476)
Total length 500-1000 feet (2,878)

Update Log 

  • February 28, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • April 17, 2014: Updated by Patrick Feller: Swing bridge has been replaced by a fixed span.
  • February 7, 2013: New photos from Luke Harden
  • November 26, 2012: New Street View added by Jared Mixson

Sources 

  • Jared
  • Luke
  • Patrick Feller - nakrnsm [at] aol [dot] com
  • Douglas Butler
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Comments 

Hildebrandt Bayou Bridge
Posted February 7, 2013, by Patrick Feller (nakrnsm [at] aol [dot] com)

I finally had to trespass to get a side view of the bridge. The fellow who patiently noticed my trespassing has been in the area for thirty years and remembers the bridge only as being fixed, so the rebuild took place before that. The Coast Guard had clearly noted the bridge as movable.

Though the street and satellite views and actually driving over the bridge give the impression of a very short swing span, that middle span is a fixed steel girder span.

The actual spelling of the bayou is Hillebrandt.