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Coal Creek Bridge
Description
This bridge was a memorial to Algy Doty who was killed in 1916 in the Argonne Forest during World War I
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Marsh arch bridge over Coal Creek
- Location
- Humboldt, Allen County, Kansas
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1924; replaced 2001
- Builders
- - Fry Brothers Construction Co. (Contract)
- Marsh Engineering Co. of Des Moines, Iowa (Design)
- Design
- Marsh Arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 141.0 ft.
Total length: 143.0 ft.
Deck width: 19.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
- Also called
- Algy Doty Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.79572, -95.42871 (decimal degrees)
37°47'45" N, 95°25'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/286159/4185928 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Humboldt
- Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 945
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000000000010395 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 17322 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of March 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 93 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- May 19, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- January 11, 2020: New photos from Luke
- April 10, 2019: Updated by Robert Elder: Added Alternate Name and Description.
- May 1, 2013: Updated by Clark Vance: Added build date
- December 9, 2009: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited Overview and Status Description.
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- KHRI Listing - Picture of lost bridge
- Luke
- Geoff Hubbs
I am willing to bet that the ca. 1950 construction date is wrong. The newest Marsh arch that I know of in Kansas was built in 1934.