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Lisbon Bridge

Columbiana County, Ohio

Photos 

Restored Bridge in 2017.

Photo Courtesy Troy Graft, Columbiana County Chief Engineer

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BH Photo #399009

Map 

Description 

Previously in storage at 40.768647, -80.767794

Facts 

Overview
Bowstring truss bridge formerly crossing Middle Fork Little Beaver Creek
Location
Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio
Status
Open to pedestrian traffic in new location.
History
Built 1872; replaced and relocated in 1966; relocated and restored in 2017.
Builder
- Massillon Bridge Co. of Massillon, Ohio
Design
Bowstring truss, 102.7 foot span, 12.7 feet between lower chords. Approach span is a modern pre-stressed concrete adjacent box beam.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 102.7 ft.
Total length: 183.1 ft.
Deck width: 10.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.78298, -80.76703   (decimal degrees)
40°46'59" N, 80°46'01" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/519657/4514692 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Lisbon
Inventory number
BH 42972 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,628)
Beam (15,810)
Bowstring pony truss (279)
Bowstring truss (549)
Bridgemapper.com (1,325)
Built 1872 (107)
Built during 1870s (1,123)
Cast iron (68)
Columbiana County, Ohio (69)
Concrete stringer (803)
Lisbon, Ohio (4)
 Massillon Bridge Co. (142)
Ohio (3,431)
Open to pedestrians (4,253)
Owned by county (20,853)
Pony truss (16,244)
Preserved (1,194)
Relocated (911)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,409)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,285)
Truss (32,976)

Update Log 

  • May 11, 2018: New photos from Chester Gehman
  • August 4, 2017: New photos from Nathan Holth
  • May 8, 2017: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added new location, design, location details.
  • July 4, 2009: Added by James Baughn

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Comments 

Lisbon Bridge
Posted May 9, 2017, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Good to see it finally come to fruition!

Lisbon Bridge
Posted May 8, 2017, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Bridge being installed in its new home:

http://www.reviewonline.com/news/local-news/2017/04/historic...

Lisbon Bridge
Posted December 1, 2014, by ArtS (asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com)

Sounds like the project is finally moving forward. Three cheers for the county engineer!:

http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/581434/Histo...

Lisbon Bridge
Posted April 5, 2012, by Brad Bosley (bbosley [at] cceng [dot] org)

Bridge is being programed by Columbiana County Engineer Bert Dawson PE,PS through ODOT to be repaired and will be relocated to the Columbiana County Fairgrounds to be used as a Pedestrian bridge. Projected for a 2013 project but is in the Preliminary stages of the project.