South Smith Road Bridge
Photos
Oblique View Of Bridge, Looking Southwest
Photo taken by J.R. Manning in August 2008
BH Photo #120338
Facts
- Overview
- Single lane Pratt through truss bridge formerly over Turtle Creek on South Smith Road
- Location
- Turtle Town, Rock County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Relocated, and replaced by a new bridge at original location
- History
- Built 1910; relocated and replaced 2020
- Builder
- - Worden-Allen Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 120.1 ft.
Total length: 122.1 ft.
Deck width: 14.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.3 ft.
- Also called
- Tiffany Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.58280, -88.92230 (decimal degrees)
42°34'58" N, 88°55'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/342258/4716278 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Shopiere
- Land survey
- T. 1 N., R. 13 E., Sec. 2
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 1
- Inventory number
- BH 34929 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of August 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 13.1 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- March 6, 2021: Updated by Roger Deschner: Bridge has been relocated and replaced
- August 21, 2020: New photo from Mark Boettcher
- April 22, 2020: Updated by Nathan Holth: This bridge is temporarily in storage.
- February 24, 2019: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- June 16, 2014: New photos from John Marvig
- August 14, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected road (and thus bridge) names
- August 8, 2008: New photos from J.R. Manning
Related Bridges
- South Smith Road Bridge (Relocated) (Parts reused in) - New location of bridge
Sources
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
- Luke
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Tiffany Bridge (Smith Road Bridge) - HistoricBridges.org
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Nathan Holth
- Mark Boettcher
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
I'm of the opinion that relocated spans should have new entries made for their new locations, especially considering some of the long distance moves some spans make (For example, the numerous railroad bridge relocations John Marvig has found evidence of.)
Technical website question: I found the new location of this bridge, now on private property, and visited and photographed it. To preserve information about the previous location and use of this bridge, should the new location and use of this bridge become a new entry? It is no longer on South Smith Road. It would simply be tagged "relocated" with a link to the new entry.
This would also avoid confusion with the new replacement bridge now under construction, which will likely be unremarkable.
Or should I post coordinates and photos of its new location here?
Information about the move
https://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/local-news/beloved-brid...
Bridge moved to private property https://www.channel3000.com/this-wisconsin-bridge-is-the-sam...
Unfortunately, Wisconsin is like the Grim Reaper when it comes to historic bridges! Although not quite as nice as the Turtleville/Lathers Road Bridge, this is still a neat bridge and pairs beautifully with the stone arches nearby!
Isn't is ironic that they apparently used an old photo in the newspaper article as it appears the bridge has been painted Green for many years now!
Shame that they want to replace a nice truss with nice views of the nearby stone arch viaduct.
https://www.channel3000.com/news/bridge-being-given-away-for...
Manners Matter on One Lane Bridge. Car waiting on south side, while one crosses from the north. According to WisDOT, Smith Road Bridge is slated for replacement in 2019.
Current conditions abutments. North side and south side, close up of missing rubber/plate on northeast side.
Recent photo of South Smith Road Bridge is attached
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/wi/rock/P53015300000000/
I have done as Luke advised, and created a new entry for the relocated bridge. It is linked in "Related Bridges".