Rating:
5 votes
Jugtown Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over East Fork Mazon River on Jugtown Road (TR 172), 2.5 mi. west of Braceville
- Location
- Grundy County, Illinois
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1884
- Builder
- - P.E. Lane of Chicago, Illinois (Likely Fabricator)
- Design
- Pin-connected, 10-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 169.9 ft.
Total length: 171.8 ft.
Deck width: 13.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.21878, -88.32163 (decimal degrees)
41°13'08" N, 88°19'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/389215/4563886 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Gardner
- Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 50
- Inventory numbers
- IL 032-5115 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15259 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of October 2012)
- Sufficiency rating: 3 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- May 23, 2021: New photos from Roger Deschner
- July 8, 2013: New photos from Joshua Bauer
- July 3, 2012: New photos from Steve Conro
- April 3, 2006: Posted photos from Bill Burmaster
Sources
- Bill Burmaster
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Joshua Bauer
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
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As of March 2021, this bridge is still there, intact and un-restored, though in good enough structural condition that restoration would not be hard. Especially if the goal was to only open it to pedestrians, bicycles, and fishing. The wooden deck is still safe for a person to walk on, even though it is gradually weathering and deteriorating.