Rating:
23228
{98}%
1 vote
Broad River Bridge
Photo
I tried to at least get a decent screenshot of the street view, before that is gone, too.
Photo taken by Jimmy Walters
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BH Photo #486241
Description
Lost through truss bridge that as of 9/18/2013, was demolished and in the process of being replaced with a newer structure.
"No builder's plaque or plans record the name of the manufacturer of this bridge or its date of construction. The state's bridge maintenance records note that unspecified change were made to it in 1959 and list that as its erection date. The bridge is clearly older and probably dates to about 1920. There is no indication, documentary or physical, that the bridge has ever been relocated or significantly altered."-NCDOT
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Broad River on NC 2797
- Location
- Buncombe County, North Carolina
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built ca. 1920
- Design
- Riveted, 5-panel, Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.1 ft.
Total length: 102.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.51083, -82.25528 (decimal degrees)
35°30'39" N, 82°15'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/386167/3930419 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Black Mountain
- Average daily traffic (as of 2000)
- 140
- Inventory numbers
- NC 210655 (North Carolina bridge number)
BH 23228 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of October 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 85 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- November 22, 2020: New photo from Jimmy Walters
- August 9, 2015: Updated by Royce and Bobette Haley: Edit description-changed build date
- September 18, 2013: Updated by Michael Miller: Changed "Status" and "Overview. Added "Year Lost" and "Description"
- March 11, 2010: Updated by Matthew Ridpath: Added Street View
Sources
- Matthew Ridpath
- Michael Miller - michael_a_miller [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Jimmy Walters
Thank you for documenting this beautiful old bridge. I have been researching my Grandaddy’s memoirs of the bridges he built in the 1900’s and this is one of them. He built it in 1928 while working for the contractor, L. Riddle and Co.