Stone Arch Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Nineveh Creek on Stone Arch Road in Atterbury Fish and Wildlife Area
- Location
- Johnson County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1885 by the Massillon Bridge Co., Restored 2011
- Builders
- - James H. Pudney (Stonemason)
- Massillon Bridge Co. of Massillon, Ohio (Fabricator)
- Design
- pinned wrought iron Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 80.7 ft.
Total length: 82.7 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.2 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Elliott Bridge (Historic Name)
Nineveh Creek Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.36601, -86.06625 (decimal degrees)
39°21'58" N, 86°03'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/580437/4357810 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Nineveh
- Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 143
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 060500 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16442 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 39.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- August 10, 2019: New photos from Mike Daffron
- December 3, 2017: New video from Mike Daffron
- November 12, 2017: New photos from Mike Daffron
- October 15, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Painted red"
- October 14, 2017: New photos from Mike Daffron
- September 26, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Bridge restored 2011/2012
- April 3, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- March 29, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Fixed coordinates that were way off
- November 16, 2008: Corrected typo
- July 21, 2008: Updated by Anthony Dillon
- July 5, 2008: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Builder and truss type
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Here's a video I recently did on the bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ZHp4Mh7Fk
This bridge is open to the public not hard to find. It is just off the main road between Edinburgh and Ninevah which goes past the stoplight to main entrance to Camp Atterbury. Going west, cross the smaller bridge and just to the right is a tiny neatly constructed stone arch bridge. Cross it and the iron bridge is just up the road. The deck could use some attention. This road goes to what I believe is the Prisoners of War Cemetary. Anything not open to the public in Camp Atterbury is fenced off with No Tresspassing signs. I only gave directions because some county maps don't mark the Atterbury Fish and Wildlife roads.
This bridge must be in the middle of Camp Atterbury. I never could find exactly where the bridge is or if the public even has access to it.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/johnson/60500/
Nice to confirm this portal style was, in fact, used through 1885.