Dunbar Covered Bridge 14-67-07
Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Big Walnut Creek on CR 25 South
- Location
- Putnam County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1880, rehabilitated in 2010
- Builder
- - Joseph J. Daniels
- Design
- Covered Burr arch truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 84.0 ft.
Total length: 174.8 ft.
Deck width: 15.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.2 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.65861, -86.88333 (decimal degrees)
39°39'31" N, 86°52'60" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/510008/4389874 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Clinton Falls
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 1,363
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 6700091 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16906 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of March 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 18 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 19, 2021: New photos from James McCray
- April 5, 2020: New video from Mike Daffron
- August 13, 2019: Updated by Brennan Ranard: Fixed to correct builder
- June 25, 2019: New video from Mike Daffron
- June 2, 2019: New photos from Mike Daffron
- June 22, 2018: New photos from Linda Daffron
- May 27, 2018: New photo from Mike Daffron
- May 13, 2018: New photo from Mike Daffron
- July 10, 2014: New photos from Andrew Raker
- September 3, 2010: New photos from Jim Grey
- July 31, 2010: Updated by Jim Grey: Changed status to Open to Traffic.
- May 19, 2010: New photo from Bill Eichelberger
- September 4, 2008: Updated by Tom Hall
- July 4, 2008: Updated by Anthony Dillon: common name and truss type
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Tom Hall - thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com
- Bill Eichelberger
- Jim Grey - mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com
- Andrew Raker
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
- Linda Daffron
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
This bridge is open again - I drove across it today. It appears to have been restored.
From the description of this bridge(location, spans, length, and year built), it sounds alot like the DUNBAR COVERED BRIDGE. I don't know of any metal bridges like this around here. Visiting the bridge years ago I thought there was too much traffic racing around the corner flying through and almost a collision too. The bridge needs to be bypassed or heavily strengthened and controlled by signals. Sorry if I'm wrong about what bridge this is.
As of August 15, this bridge is closed to all traffic, whether or not it is going to be rehabilitated, replaced, or simply removed remains to be seen. The highway dept. has place large piles of sand and gravel on each end of the bridge to block traffic, and as now, no construction seems to be in progress.
My friends and I found this bridge in an extreme state of dis-repair... There were places where a person could probably have torn pieces of the gaurdrail off, and there was a large portion of gaurdrail missing entirely, presumably due to an encounter with a vehicle, judging by the type of damage inflicted. The general appearance of the bridge made us question its safety, and it took us a little bit of time to muster the nerves to actually take a vehicle across the bridge.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/putnam/6700091/
The builder of this Bridge..J.A. Britton..He was my great great great grandfather..My Cousin and I are both doing a family tree of our family and this is what we have found this far..It's amazing...J.A. Britton was a great man that was a POW of the civil war. He built many of bridge in Indiana..