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Salt Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt pony truss bridge over Salt Creek, 2.0 mi. east and 0.2 mi. north of Lyndon
- Location
- Osage County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1945
- Design
- Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 88.9 ft.
Total length: 89.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.60897, -95.63819 (decimal degrees)
38°36'32" N, 95°38'17" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/270284/4276686 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lyndon
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 97
- Inventory numbers
- KS 000000000700390 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 18328 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 44.1 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 4, 2018: New photos from Ron Reber
- June 18, 2017: Updated by Dave King: Specified bridge is a Pratt
- April 12, 2017: New Street View added by Clark Vance
- April 12, 2017: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- May 4, 2016: Updated by Nathan Holth: Fix GPS
Sources
- Nathan Holth
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Ron Reber
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This might not be the oldest, biggest, or most ornate truss in the world, but it is an unusual example of a 1940s truss bridge. The war effort required a lot of steel, and concrete was the material of choice for small bridges by this time.