Dellville Covered Bridge 38-50-16
Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Shermans Creek on Dellville Road (PA 2002)
- Location
- Perry County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Destroyed by fire
- History
- Built 1889; Rebuilt Oct. 1973 after Agnes Flood June 1972; Arson Nov. 2014
- Builder
- - Andrew Clouser
- Design
- Covered Burr arch-truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 175.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1980
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.36358, -77.11625 (decimal degrees)
40°21'49" N, 77°06'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/320312/4470262 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Wertzville
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 80003593 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
WGCB 38-50-16 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 31484 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 31, 2018: New photos from Jodi Christman
- July 10, 2018: Updated by Janis Ford: Updated history
- November 3, 2014: Photo imported by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- November 3, 2014: Updated by Jodi Christman: Changed status due to fire on 11/3/14
- March 6, 2014: Updated by Dave King: Added builder, street view & imported photo
- October 5, 2013: New photos from Jodi Christman
- September 19, 2010: New photo from Jodi Christman
- June 14, 2009: New photos from Jodi Christman
- March 5, 2007: Posted photos from Jack Schmidt
Sources
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
- Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Janis Ford
Comments
The structure seems to be standing pretty solid after the fire (The added pier is helping no doubt). If the trusses can be blasted to remove the char and enough substance remains, then the flooring, siding and roof structure can all be replaced. Would be fine for a pedestrian bridge!
Here are some examples of bridges that were severely burned and were restored:
http://bridgehunter.com/in/rush/offutts-ford/
http://bridgehunter.com/in/dearborn/guilford-covered/
http://bridgehunter.com/oh/preble/roberts/
The Offutt Bridge continues to carry light traffic and the Guilford Bridge, although located in a small park, can also be crossed in a vehicle.(See photo #3 for a pic of how this bridge looked after being burned)
The Roberts Bridge was the most severely burned and is only for pedestrian usage.
I hope I'm wrong but the images and video from the abc link suggest that the truss structure was fully involved and got pretty crispy. If so, I doubt they will be able to reuse much of it.
www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/11/dellville_covere...
Photos and reports so far say "damaged" with tryss structure still standing.
Bridge suffered a fire early this morning.
http://www.abc27.com/story/27189825/crews-battle-fire-at-his...
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/pa/perry/dellville/
Possibly good news?!:
http://local21news.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/wha...