Kilbourn Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Six-span through truss bridge over the Des Moines River on Lark Avenue
- Location
- Kilbourn, Van Buren County, Iowa
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1908-09 by the Ottumwa Supply & Construction Co.
- Builders
- - Ottumwa Supply & Construction Co. of Ottumwa, Iowa (Contractor)
- Toledo-Massillon Bridge Co. of Toledo, Ohio (Fabricator)
- Design
- Pin-connected Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 135.2 ft.
Total length: 855.4 ft.
Deck width: 16.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1998
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.79987, -91.97043 (decimal degrees)
40°47'60" N, 91°58'14" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/586850/4517051 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mount Zion
- Land survey
- T. 69 N., R. 10 W., Sec. 2
- Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 60
- Inventory numbers
- IA 328760 (Iowa bridge number)
NRHP 427543 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 14566 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of May 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 23.9 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 15, 2015: New photos from Jason Smith
- December 27, 2014: New photos from James Baughn
- June 2, 2012: Updated by Chris Gonnerman: Updated bridge truss description.
- March 23, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- July 29, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: added NHRP listing
- June 18, 2008: Updated by Historic American Engineering Record
- June 16, 2008: New photos from Historic American Engineering Record
Related Bridges
- Kilbourn Bridge (Old) (Predecessor)
Sources
- HAER IA-85 - Kilbourn Bridge
- Luke
- Chris Gonnerman
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
Comments
The bridge in photo 14 is the market street bridge iun ottumwa,iowa
Apparently, I can't promote my pictures above the ones previously posted. That must be a webmaster-only thing.
I prefer the modern to the historical.
I've just posted photos from Monday (Memorial Day) of this bridge viewed from both ends. Is it preferable to have a current picture, or the historical photo, as the "thumbnail" for this bridge?
(Not pushing to have mine moved up. Just curious.)
Yeah........should have gleaned through the report to confirm that Massillon was involved, although I was pretty confident they were.
Tony,
If you read the HAER documentation it lists the Toledo-Massillon Bridge Company, successor to Massillon Bridge Company as bridge fabricator.
Looks as if Massillon might have supplied the trusses for this bridge......as it features their distinctive plaques.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/van-buren/kilbourn/
This bridge's days may be numbered. According to information from locals, the county is looking into plans to remove the entire bridge sometime within the next year or two for liability reasons. When visiting the bridge, I noticed that access to the structure has been sealed off with fences and the removal of the approaches although some people have constructed a make-shift ladder to get onto the bridge. In either case, visit this bridge while it's still there for it may not be there for long.....