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Moss Island Road Bridge

Madison County, Indiana

Map 

Description 

Built at a cost of $67,000

Facts 

Overview
Lost Concrete arch bridge over White River on Moss Island Road
Location
Madison County, Indiana
Status
Removed. Made obsolete by the Raible Avenue Bridge.
History
Built 1926
Builder
- Edward Smith
Design
Closed-spandrel arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 85.0 ft.
Total length: 268.1 ft.
Deck width: 20.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.11438, -85.72005   (decimal degrees)
40°06'52" N, 85°43'12" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/609075/4441237 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Anderson South
Inventory numbers
INNBI 4800101 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 39413 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arch (12,662)
Built 1926 (805)
Built during 1920s (10,259)
Closed-spandrel arch (4,261)
Deck arch (11,898)
Edward Smith (1)
Indiana (5,098)
 Lost (28,564)
Lost 1990 (199)
Lost during 1990s (4,148)
Madison County, Indiana (66)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,656)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,513)
White River (Indiana) (68)

Update Log 

  • October 25, 2009: Updated by Joshua Collins: changed gps coordinates
  • March 14, 2009: Updated by Joshua Collins: status, overview
  • February 7, 2009: Added by James Baughn

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Sources 

  • Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
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Comments 

White River Moss Island Rd. Bridge
Posted June 29, 2012, by Sandy Wickersham-McWhorter (sandy8wickersham [at] yahoo [dot] com)

THank you sooooooo much for this bridge entry! YOu'll never know how much it has helped me with memories of the 50s and straightening them out for my memoir I'm writing for my MFA and that I want to leave for my and my brothers children so they know what their parents went through.