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Meyers Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Sangamon River on TR 192, 5 mi. north of Mt Auburn
- Location
- Christian County, Illinois, and Sangamon County, Illinois
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- Design
- Pin-connected, 9-panel Camelback Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 160.0 ft.
Total length: 169.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.1 ft.
- Also called
- Sangamon River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.82042, -89.25245 (decimal degrees)
39°49'14" N, 89°15'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/307219/4410253 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mount Auburn
- Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 50
- Inventory numbers
- IL 011-3288 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15069 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of November 2012)
- Sufficiency rating: 15.2 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- October 29, 2018: New photos from Elliott Johnson
- October 28, 2018: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- October 28, 2018: New photo from Jeremy Ruble
- September 23, 2018: New photo from Jeremy Ruble
- July 11, 2008: New photos from Kim Harvey
- July 9, 2008: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Changed overview and design
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Kim Harvey
- Jeremy Ruble - jaruble1982 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Elliott Johnson - elliottsgon15 [at] hotmail [dot] com
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When did they close this bridge and is it the same one that was on the IL State Map Cover about 5 or so years ago (the map that the Secretary of State office prints)?