Rating:
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Black Vermillion River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Black Vermillion River, 1.5 mi. east of Frankfort
- Location
- Marshall County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1908
- Builder
- - Canton Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Seven panel, pin-connected Pratt through truss.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 119.1 ft.
Total length: 191.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.69799, -96.38898 (decimal degrees)
39°41'53" N, 96°23'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/723869/4397496 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Frankfort
- Land survey
- T. 4 S., R. 9 E., Sec. 14
- Elevation
- 1148 ft. above sea level
- Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 10
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000580921003409 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 18028 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of July 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 26.5 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- May 15, 2021: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- April 10, 2019: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- January 21, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Adjusted GPS Coordinates
- April 10, 2009: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited Categories.
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
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Potentially ominous sign with this one on visit today - clearing out all the brush on both sides around the bridge, replacement coming soon? This 1908 is extremely beat up, would not be incredibly surprised