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Bridge Street Bridge (Pre 1911)

Ionia County, Michigan

Photo 

Circa 1911

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BH Photo #416796

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Flat River on Bridge Street
Location
Belding, Ionia County, Michigan
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
Builder
- Massillon Bridge Co. of Massillon, Ohio (Likely Fabricator)
Design
8-panel, pinned Pratt through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+43.09974, -85.22818   (decimal degrees)
43°05'59" N, 85°13'41" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/644185/4773414 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Belding
Inventory number
BH 80222 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Belding, Michigan (3)
Ionia County, Michigan (40)
Lost (28,382)
Lost 1940 (77)
Lost during 1940s (484)
Massillon Bridge Co. (156)
Michigan (1,389)
 Owned by state (16,548)
Pratt through truss (6,045)
Pratt truss (10,280)
Replaced by new bridge (19,300)
Through truss (16,709)
Truss (35,375)

Update Log 

  • October 29, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type and fixed stuff
  • January 23, 2018: Added by Dana and Kay Klein

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Bridge Street- Flat River (Older)
Posted October 30, 2019, by Mike Kerkau (mjkerkau [at] gmail [dot] com)

The 1992 NBI has a bridge listing for this location with a build year of 1940 - obviously, that can't be for THIS bridge, so that'd have to be when this one was replaced.