Rating:
65071
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14 Mile Road Bridge
Description
The bridge is part of Calhoun County's local roadway system which primarily serves existing agricultural, rural, residential, and associated traffic. The bridge is a steel, riveted camelback pony truss structure. The bridge reflects a type not common in Michigan in the twentieth century.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pony truss bridge over St Joseph River on 14 Mile Road
- Location
- Calhoun County, Michigan
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1906; Replace 1994
- Design
- Warren pony truss with all verticals
- Dimensions
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Span length: 100.1 ft.
Total length: 100.1 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
- Recognition
-
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.09024, -85.02033 (decimal degrees)
42°05'25" N, 85°01'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/663722/4661691 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Burlington
- Inventory numbers
- MINBI 13320H00021B010 (Michigan bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory 2010 and before)
BH 65071 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 27, 2014: Added by Dave King
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER MI-77 - Fourteen Mile Road Bridge, Spanning St. Joseph River, Tekonsha, Calhoun County, MI