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Fly Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Warren pony truss bridge over Fly Creek, 1.0 mi. south and 2.9 mi. west of Melrose
- Location
- Cherokee County, Kansas
- Status
- Bypassed by a low-water crossing
- Design
- Warren pony truss with alternating verticals
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 64.0 ft.
Total length: 100.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.01728, -95.01090 (decimal degrees)
37°01'02" N, 95°00'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/321108/4098679 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chetopa
- Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 20
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000111073107100 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 17561 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of April 2014)
- Sufficiency rating: 16.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 28, 2017: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- August 27, 2015: New Street View added by Robert Elder
- January 29, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited Design and Design Description
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
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Cherokee County is definitely a long haul from Lawrence!
This is a very lightweight bridge. I suspect that it might have been a low - cost solution for a very rural road with light traffic. Bridges like this are rare and usually only found in rural areas. Thanks to Cherokee County for allowing it to remain in place when it was bypassed by the ford. This means that at least it has a chance to be preserved.