Rating:
4 votes
Upper Hurricane Road Bridge
Description
Additional History: Probate judge of Madison County, Judge Lawler, was murdered and thrown off of this bridge in 1916.Location Information: The current location of this bridge is now in Sharon Johnston Park in city of New Market. Estimated bridge location based on visual review of TV News Reports: 34.896302, -86.445062
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Hurricane Creek on Upper Hurricane Road
- Location
- Madison County, Alabama
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1910 near Ditto Landing; moved to Upper Hurricane Road in 1960s; moved to Sharon Johnston Park August 13, 2019.
- Design
- Warren pony truss with all verticals
- Dimensions
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Span length: 50.9 ft.
Total length: 50.9 ft.
Deck width: 16.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.91922, -86.35883 (decimal degrees)
34°55'09" N, 86°21'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/558565/3864272 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- King Cove
- Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
- 74
- Inventory numbers
- AL 18 (Alabama bridge number)
BH 10171 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of February 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 24.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- August 15, 2019: Updated by Nathan Holth: Updated bridge history, construction date, status of relocation.
- June 24, 2012: New photo from Ben Tate
- September 6, 2011: Updated by Ben Tate: fixed coordinates
Sources
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- Historic Madison County bridge relocated to park
- Historic bridge relocated to Sharon Johnston Park | WHNT.com
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Some good news, this bridge has been relocated and is being preserved. The TV reports provided some additional history of the bridge and I have estimated the new location based on review of camera shots to be here: 34.896302, -86.445062
https://whnt.com/2019/08/13/historic-bridge-relocated-to-sha...
https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Historic-Madison-County-...