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Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Neches River on Westbound TX 73 in Port Arthur
- Location
- Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Opened Sept. 8, 1938; parallel bridge built 1991; rehabilitated and reopened to northbound traffic in 1998
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 680.2 ft.
Total length: 7,741.5 ft.
Deck width: 22.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.98000, -93.87111 (decimal degrees)
29°58'48" N, 93°52'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/415964/3316888 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- West of Greens Bayou
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 96001127 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 33135 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 53.5 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 15,980