Rating:
6 votes
12th Street Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered Warren through truss bridge (riveted) over Ohio River on U.S. 23 Spur (12th Street) in Ashland
- Location
- Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky, and Lawrence County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to traffic, two lanes, one way southbound
- History
- Built 1930; rehabilitated 1986
- Design
- Cantilevered Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 738.7 ft.
Total length: 2,277.3 ft. (0.4 mi.)
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Ben M. Williamson Sr. Bridge (official name)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.48444, -82.64085 (decimal degrees)
38°29'04" N, 82°38'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/356885/4260842 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ashland
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 10,746
- Inventory numbers
- KY 010-B00040N (Kentucky bridge number)
BH 18716 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 47 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- June 24, 2018: New photo from Mike Daffron
- June 19, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- September 21, 2016: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- September 15, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added categories "Pin-connected", "Riveted"
- August 26, 2010: New photos from Calvin Sneed
- July 10, 2010: New Street View added by Calvin Sneed
- April 4, 2010: New photos from Calvin Sneed
- March 13, 2010: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Added Google Street View.
Sources
- Bill Eichelberger
- Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Todd Wilson
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
12th Street Bridge
The National Bridge Inventory reports that this bridge carries "US 23S" and classifies the route as a "U.S. numbered highway spur". Presumably the "S" stands for "Spur" and not "South". Bid documents by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet also refer to the bridge as carrying US 23S. For example:
http://www.kytc.state.ky.us/Contract/Lettings/2006/1027/BidD...
Moreover, the route number of "23S" appears in the bridge's inventory number: "010 023S B00040".
Ohio River US 23 Bridge
Great website, very useful information. I have a correction for you, however. This bridge is NOT on US-23, but is actually on US-60. Specifically on 13th Street. You can check a map closely, and there is a photo at http://www.kentuckyroads.com/images/ohio_river/.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ky/boyd/10B00040N/
I checked the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) records and found that both bridges are indeed designated as U-S 23 Spur (since 1986), dead-ending at U.S. 52 on the north end of the bridge.
The link is: http://www.us-highways.com/spurus.htm
But, the U.S. 23-S designation is not used and may be truncated permanently, because of, as you speculated, its confusion with U.S. 23 South. Since there are no signs for U.S. 23-S in Ashland (I didn't spot any when I took the pictures), there isn't any confusion.
But AASHTO indicates, neither bridge carries U.S. 60.