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Middle Pipe Creek Bridge

Cloud County, Kansas

Photos 

Photo taken by Nick Schmiedeler in August 2019

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BH Photo #453982

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Pony truss bridge over Middle Pipe Creek, 2.0 mi. north and 7.2 mi. west of Miltonvale
Location
Cloud County, Kansas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1939
Builder
- Canton Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
Design
Warren pony truss with all verticals
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 62.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.7 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.37927, -97.58119   (decimal degrees)
39°22'45" N, 97°34'52" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/622201/4359826 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Aurora
Land survey
T. 8 S., R. 2 W., Sec. 6
Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
20
Inventory numbers
KS 000150793603860 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 17596 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of July 2016)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 49.4 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Built 1939 (811)
Built during 1930s (12,166)
Canton Bridge Co. (212)
Cloud County, Kansas (26)
Have street view (28,895)
Kansas (3,269)
NR-eligible (4,107)
Open (40,969)
Owned by county (21,607)
 Pony truss (17,011)
Riveted (2,508)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,420)
Total length 50-75 feet (9,571)
Truss (35,451)
Warren pony truss (3,557)
Warren pony truss with all verticals (487)
Warren truss (7,001)

Update Log 

  • August 8, 2019: New Street View added by Clark Vance
  • August 8, 2019: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
  • December 16, 2015: New Street View added by Sheldon Wiens

Sources 

  • Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
  • Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
  • Sheldon Wiens
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Comments 

Middle Pipe Creek Bridge
Posted August 13, 2019, by Nick Schmiedeler (nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com)

I was posting comments below as "anonymous", forgot to log back in until now

Middle Pipe Creek Bridge
Posted August 9, 2019, by Anonymous

Yeah Tony, agree. Some unique characteristics on this one, very stout albeit a little bent up.

Middle Pipe Creek Bridge
Posted August 8, 2019, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

I'm not at all convinced about the 1939 build date.

The use of tight lacing with paired angles for the diagonals and double-paired angles for the verts, along with double-laced angles for the lower chord are all very unique!

I'm more inclined to think that this is a riveted Pratt and not a Warren.

Middle Pipe Creek Bridge
Posted August 8, 2019, by Anonymous

2nd bridge run into in the state with a plaque square in the middle of the structure, kind of neat