16th Street Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Mark
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
BH Photo #231707
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren pony truss bridge over South Skunk River on 16th Street in Ames
- Location
- Ames, Story County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced, one span lays abandoned in a field on west side of waterway, span on the east side of the waterway removed from field in 2015
- History
- Built 1958; Rehabilitated 1974; Replaced 2007; Spans were meant to be reused on a trail but were 12' short; One span scrapped 2015, other remains "in storage" on the Western bank in hopes of reuse
- Builder
- - Iowa State Highway Commission of Ames, Iowa
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 89.9 ft.
Total length: 277.2 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.00922, -93.59381 (decimal degrees)
42°00'33" N, 93°35'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/450829/4650970 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ames East
- Land survey
- T. 83 N., R. 24 W., Sec. 13
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 4,560
- Inventory numbers
- IA 314860 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 14440 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of April 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 92.6 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- November 12, 2019: Updated by Luke: Noted failed reuse and known scrapping of one span
- October 17, 2016: Updated by Dana and Kay Klein: South Skunk
- August 9, 2016: Updated by Kevin Skow: Update based on satellite imagery: The span in the field has been removed
- September 2, 2014: New Street View added by Luke
- September 2, 2014: New photos from Lee Smith
- November 18, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected stataus as 1/2 of the bridge sits extant in a field.
- May 10, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- May 8, 2012: New Street View added by Luke Harden
- September 4, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: Changed Name
- August 21, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: Added lost date.
- July 27, 2011: New Street View added by Ben Tate
- July 26, 2011: New photo from Luke Harden
- June 3, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: Status Update
Sources
- Luke
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Lee Smith - ljsmith_32 [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Kevin Skow - weatherbum [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
Comments
I'm a rancher in Nebraska. Can I buy this bridge? Where did it go?
Online maps are still showing both halves of the bridge sitting in fields. And the street view is of the east side. The West Side is sitting back from the road along the tree line and the East side is in the middle of the field. When we drove by the other day I did not notice the east bridge but we were not looking for it either. The weeds in the fields are quite tall and it could have been missed.
plan was to use the old bridge as part of Skunk River Bike Trail over Squaw Creek just to the north. Span might have come up just short.
Well if someone does not find a spot to reuse it, the bridge will become lost. Same thing happened with the Whitney Road Bridge. They built a fancy new UCEB and placed the old truss in the middle of a field next to the road. It sat there for a couple years and then just disappeared, scrapped most likely.
Might want to amend the LOST status.....as the bridge does still exist.
Bridge confirmed as replaced via google streeview along with a photo on panoramio: http://www.panoramio.com/user/246368?comment_page=4&photo_pa...
This bridge appears to have been replaced.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/story/314860/
The latest GE imagery shows that there is still one span left; it's on the edge of the tree line on the west side of the river, about 500 feet north of the road. Only the span on the east side of the river has been removed.