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CR 5-Big Wheeling Creek Bridge

Marshall County, West Virginia

Photo 

CR 5 - Big Wheeling Creek Bridge

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Photo taken by Will Nelson

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #474881

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Whipple through truss bridge over Big Wheeling Creek on County Road 5
Location
Marshall County, West Virginia
Status
Replaced by a new bridge on new alignment, but allowed to remain in place
History
Built 1882 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company
Builder
- Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
Design
13-panel, pinned Whipple through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 202.1 ft.
Total length: 206.0 ft.
Deck width: 17.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.97577, -80.63062   (decimal degrees)
39°58'33" N, 80°37'50" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/531541/4425133 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Moundsville
Inventory number
BH 35322 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,568)
Built 1882 (143)
Built during 1880s (1,993)
Closed (2,665)
Marshall County, West Virginia (22)
Owned by county (20,783)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,988)
 Through truss (15,065)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,265)
Truss (32,788)
West Virginia (1,486)
Whipple truss (387)
Wrought Iron Bridge Co. (373)

Update Log 

  • June 30, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • April 30, 2020: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder and truss type.
  • January 29, 2011: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Added GPS coords
  • May 26, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson

Sources 

  • Bill Eichelberger
  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Geoff Hubbs
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Comments 

Big Wheeling Creek Bridge
Posted May 25, 2008, by Will Nelson (willynwv [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Is this the bridge on CR-5 that you have listed as open? This sits at the crossroads of CR-5 Big Wheeling Creek Rd, Pine Hill RD, Drummin Lane and CR-16 Caldwell Hill Rd. There is only one other steel truss bridge on this road and you have it mapped. I will try to supply picture of it in the following days.