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Love Bridge
Description
Bridge was known locally as Love Bridge. Destroyed in the mid 1980's by overweight vehicle. Replaced by a low-water crossing until a concrete bridge was built in the early 90's.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Richland Creek on SW County Road 0030
- Location
- Navarro County, Texas
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built ca. 1920; replaced 1993
- Design
- Through Truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 98.1 ft.
Total length: 132.9 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +31.96722, -96.47500 (decimal degrees)
31°58'02" N, 96°28'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/738618/3539587 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Richland
- Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
- 536
- Inventory numbers
- TXNBI 181750AA0501005 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 42127 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of January 2015)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 85.4 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 23, 2011: Updated by Scott Wiley: Corrected typo on description.
- January 22, 2011: Updated by Scott Wiley: Added to design description.
- January 17, 2011: Updated by Scott Wiley: Corrected bridge type, through truss instead of pony truss.
- January 16, 2011: Updated by Scott Wiley: Additional info from local resident.
Sources
- Scott Wiley - fifty [dot] fathoms [at] yahoo [dot] com