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Bear Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Branch Des Moines River on a local road
- Location
- Wapello County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1935
- Design
- Riveted, 5-panel Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 40.0 ft.
Total length: 42.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
- Also called
- 215th Avenue Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.00488, -92.57242 (decimal degrees)
41°00'18" N, 92°34'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/535957/4539386 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chillicothe
- Land survey
- T. 72 N., R. 15 W., Sec. 27
- Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
- 90
- Inventory numbers
- IA 331650 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 14589 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of June 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 24.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- August 1, 2016: Updated by Kevin Skow: Fixed Location
- March 11, 2009: Updated by Bob Davis
Sources
- Bob Davis - bobdaviscfi [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Kevin Skow - weatherbum [at] hotmail [dot] com
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A better name for this bridge is the "Bear Creek Bridge" since it takes 215th Avenue over Bear Creek seven miles east of where Bear Creek joins the Des Moines River at Ottumwa. This bridge is easy to find being a half mile south of US Hwy 34 between Ottumwa and Albia.
Photos taken November 9, 2008 are attached and my coordinates (41.00494, -92.57240) compare well with those provided.
Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.