Rating:
4 votes
Big Wheeling Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Whipple through truss bridge over Big Wheeling Creek on CR 5
- Location
- Marshall County, West Virginia
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1896
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Pinned Whipple through truss
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 170.0 ft.
Total length: 214.9 ft.
Deck width: 12.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 19.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.99424, -80.63491 (decimal degrees)
39°59'39" N, 80°38'06" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/531166/4427181 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Moundsville
- Average daily traffic (as of 2012)
- 300
- Inventory number
- BH 35323 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of July 2016)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 14.4 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- June 10, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- August 8, 2011: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type and builder
- August 8, 2011: New photos from Will Nelson
- June 3, 2010: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Corrected GPS coordinates.
Sources
- Bill Eichelberger
- Will Nelson
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
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