Rating:
49250
{67}%
3 votes
Lincoln Highway South Skunk River Bridge (Old)
Photo
Bridge at original location before being relocated to 150th Street
© Iowa Department of Transportation
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BH Photo #256948
Description
Built to replace bridge lost in 1918 flooding, removed from it's location there in 1952 to a different crossing of the South Skunk River.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over South Skunk River on Lincoln Highway
- Location
- Ames, Story County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge but relocated
- History
- Built 1920; moved to 150th Street over the South Skunk River 1952.
- Builder
- - Iowa State Highway Commission of Ames, Iowa (Design)
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 149.9 ft.
Total length: 154.2 ft.
Deck width: 19.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.02199, -93.59491 (decimal degrees)
42°01'19" N, 93°35'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/450747/4652388 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ames East
- Inventory number
- BH 49250 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 17, 2016: Updated by Dana and Kay Klein: South Skunk
- June 21, 2013: New photo from Luke Harden
- July 29, 2011: Added by Luke Harden
Merging info from the historical society and another source, it was moved twelve miles upstream from the Lincoln Way (Lincoln Highway) crossing near what is referred to as the "40 and 8 cabin." Now to find out which crossing that is.