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Beaver Creek Bridge
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Coward Creek One Lane Bridge Upstream side
Historic bridge saved by local efforts
Photo taken by Bob Davis on February 24, 2009
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BH Photo #134140
Description
Solid as the Hills New Stone Arch Over Beaver Creek Nearly Completed, Knoxville Daily Journal, November 30, 1894, page 2,
Probably the largest stone arch in the south or the United States, is nearing completion across Beaver creek, near John Maddens’ farm in the nineteenth civil district of this county.
The bridge consists of an eighty-foot span, being the segment of a circle, 130 feet in diameter. Its weight is 200 tons. The arch has been turned and the parapet or wall over the arch is in process of completion.
The bridge was designed by Prof. J. K. Payne, the well-known mathematician and engineer, and the contractors are Brady & Simpson.
The bridge is as durable as the ages and is being constructed at the expense of the county. There are a few bridges with seventy-two foot spans or arches in this country, but none known of the dimensions of this bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Closed spandrel stone arch bridge over Beaver Creek on County Road C199
- Location
- Knox County, Tennessee
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1894; rehabilitated 1990
- Builder
- - Brady & Simpson
- Design
- Stone Arch
Closed Spandrel
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 79.7 ft.
Total length: 147.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.96889, -84.14778 (decimal degrees)
35°58'08" N, 84°08'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/757197/3984259 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lovell
- Average daily traffic (as of 2019)
- 290
- Inventory numbers
- TN 470C1990003 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 32581 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of June 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 74.4 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- November 21, 2015: Updated by Bob Davis: Initial construction date found in a 1894 newspaper
- June 9, 2010: New Street View added by Craig Philpott
- February 25, 2009: Updated by Bob Davis: add coordinates, photos, and stone arch designation
Sources
- Bob Davis - bobdaviscfi [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
You have it named Coward Creek it's Beaver Creek