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Big Creek Ditch AR 226 Bridge

Craighead County, Arkansas

Photos 

Side view

Photo provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department

BH Photo #100322

Map 

Street View 

Description 

This bridge and the Cache River brudge have reportedly been given to the City of Jonesboro as pedestrian bridges

Facts 

Overview
Pony truss bridge over Big Creek Ditch (Bayou Deview) on AR 226
Location
Craighead County, Arkansas
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1928 by Bunnell & Mack of Paragould; Replaced 2014
Design
Polygonal Warren pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 89.9 ft.
Total length: 191.9 ft.
Deck width: 24.6 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.79307, -90.83925   (decimal degrees)
35°47'35" N, 90°50'21" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/695265/3963151 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Herman
Average daily traffic (as of 2012)
5,000
Inventory numbers
AHTD M2407 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
BH 10298 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of April 2012)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 4 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Arkansas (1,753)
Built 1928 (1,179)
Built during 1920s (9,965)
Craighead County, Arkansas (15)
Formerly NR-eligible (444)
Have street view (27,086)
Lost (25,074)
Lost 2014 (361)
Lost during 2010s (3,303)
Owned by state (16,073)
 Polygonal Warren pony truss (384)
Polygonal Warren truss (1,054)
Pony truss (16,262)
Replaced by new bridge (16,857)
Skewed (4,917)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,454)
Structurally deficient (14,091)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,289)
Truss (33,022)
Warren truss (6,587)

Update Log 

  • December 17, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • March 30, 2016: Updated by David Backlin: Updated status to replaced
  • March 4, 2011: New Street View added by J.P.
  • August 23, 2008: Updated history
  • February 19, 2005: Posted new photos

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Comments 

Big Creek Ditch AR 226 Bridge
Posted July 11, 2008, by Randall Houp (ghostbridgehunter [at] yahoo [dot] comV)

Visited and photographed this bridge on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Bridge in really good shape, but scheduled to be moved to a new home in 2010. The new interstate is being built west of Jonesboro and Arkansas 226 is to be widened. Several newspaper accounts of this bridge and its sister bridge to the west on Arkansas 226 have appeared in several Arkansas newspapers; (Little Rock, Ft. Smith, Jonesboro, etc...). Glad to see these hisitoric bridges to be saved and continued to be used. Bridge quite eay to photograph and find. Road frequently travelled.