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Commerce Bridge
Photos
Photo provided by Hank Zaletel
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
BH Photo #255848
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Raccoon River on Commerce Drive
- Location
- Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- Built 1889; Destroyed 1965
- Builder
- - George E. King Bridge Co. of Des Moines, Iowa
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.53631, -93.75942 (decimal degrees)
41°32'11" N, 93°45'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/436651/4598574 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Commerce
- Inventory number
- BH 56101 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 8, 2019: New photo from Luke
- January 13, 2019: New photo from Luke
- December 14, 2017: Updated by Luke: Added build date + image
- June 21, 2013: New photos from Michael O'Brien
- June 13, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added one of the builders based on plaque shape
- June 13, 2013: New photo from Michael O'Brien
- June 12, 2013: New photos from Michael O'Brien
- June 9, 2013: New photo from Luke Harden
- April 25, 2013: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1950s Aerial Imagery
- Michael O'Brien
- Lost Des Moines Facebook Group - Info
- August 31, 2006 edition of the Des Moines Register - Newspapers.com - Article
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Explored this area from Commerce Drive last week.
It's easy to see where the bridge was, as there's an *extremely* short stub road with a railroad crossing, (including crossing lights!) off Commerce, that dead ends immediately across the tracks in a couple of private drives that go left and right.