Milton Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Unusual pony truss bridge over Needles Creek on Milton Road
- Location
- Wood County, Ohio
- Status
- Gone - Disposition unknown
- History
- Removed 2008
- Builder
- - Canton Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 24.9 ft.
Total length: 26.9 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.16833, -83.82333 (decimal degrees)
41°10'06" N, 83°49'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/263145/4561287 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hoytville
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 8740844 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 28623 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 20, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder
- March 24, 2008: Updated by J.R. Manning: Updated Status
- November 28, 2005: Posted photo from Rick McOmber
Related Bridges
- Canton Lattice Girder Bridge (Same design) - Another unusual lattice truss
- Willow Creek Bridge (Same design)
Sources
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
Confirmed on March 9, 2006, this bridge has been removed. It is unclear whether it was simply demolished, or is being relocated and/or restored. Knowing Wood County's track record, a restoration would be quite a departure from the norm.
There are three of these in Ohio. Two in Wood Co. and one in Holmes (see my site for exact locations (http://oldohiobridges.com They are described as "lattice" in the Ohio Historic Bridge Inventory but from looking at them the lattice does not appear structural. Clearly the diagonal braces seem to be forming a truss. I think they are most like a leg bedstead.
Another similar bridge is located at this webpage: http://www.piercenebraska.info/arboretum/bridge.htm
They don't seem to have a clue what type of bridge it is, calling it simply a rigid-connected lattice truss.
Mario, this bridge appears to be very close to the Hancock County line, southwest of Hoytville.
Very weird bridge. The tension chord is larger than the compression chord which is very strange. You would expect the top (compression) chord to be larger then the bottom. Structurally that may not be a bid deal because it looks like the bridge is only 20' or so long, which would not create large loads in the members.
Where abouts in Wood County is this bridge...near Toledo?
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/wood/milton-road/
Interesting little bridge. Norton Co. Kansas had a couple of these bridges as well. I think one was moved to a golf course. The Canton Bridge Company apparently built lattice trusses with and without the diagonal ties.