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Facts
- Overview
- Lost wire suspension bridge over Colorado River on UT 128
- Location
- Grand County, Utah
- Status
- Destroyed by fire on April 6, 2008
- Future prospects
- slated to be rebuilt
- History
- Built 1915-16 by the Midland Bridge Co.; destroyed by fire on April 6, 2008
- Builder
- - Midland Bridge Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
- Design
- Wire suspension with double intersection warren pony truss elements (similar to another bridge in Utah)
- Dimensions
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Total length: 503.2 ft.
Deck width: 8.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.81183, -109.30311 (decimal degrees)
38°48'43" N, 109°18'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 12/647329/4297263 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Dewey
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 84002179 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 36452 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Dewey Bridge
- Kim Harvey - ayrlieofremora [at] yahoo [dot] com
- HAER UT-79 - Dewey Bridge, Spanning Colorado River at State Highway 128, Cisco vicinity, Utah County, UT