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Clinch Avenue Viaduct

Knox County, Tennessee

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Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in June 2010

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BH Photo #168686

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Description 

Designer and mathematician Edwin Thacher designed the Clinch Avenue Viaduct on plans using the Melan system. Thacher also designed and built the Walnut Street Bridge, a series of camelback truss spans in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Knoxville rebuilt the Clinch Avenue Viaduct and altered it in 1981 for the 1982 World's Fair reopening it as a pedestrian bridge with a different railing, and reopened it to vehicular traffic in 2002.

Facts 

Overview
Closed-spandrel arch bridge over Second Creek, Norfolk Southern Railroad Tracks on Clinch Avenue
Location
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1905 by the Oliver Company using Melan and Thacher Patents designs
Builders
- Concrete-Steel Engineering Co. of New York, New York
- Oliver Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee
Design
10 concrete closed spandrel arches, five concrete deck girders built on a 68 to 85 degree skew, with plain parapet railings and quatrefoil panels above each pier.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 49.9 ft.
Total length: 757.0 ft.
Deck width: 30.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.96198, -83.92341   (decimal degrees)
35°57'43" N, 83°55'24" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/236358/3983682 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Knoxville
Average daily traffic (as of 2019)
3,190
Inventory numbers
TN 470A1350001 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 45552 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of June 2018)
Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 55.7 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Arch (12,094)
Built 1905 (799)
Built during 1900s (7,223)
Closed-spandrel arch (3,989)
Concrete-Steel Engineering Co. (15)
Deck arch (11,332)
Functionally obsolete (6,429)
Have street view (26,928)
 Knox County, Tennessee (57)
Knoxville, Tennessee (37)
Oliver Co. (1)
Open (39,880)
Owned by city (5,396)
Span length 25-50 feet (15,663)
Tennessee (1,223)
Total length 500-1000 feet (2,871)

Update Log 

  • December 19, 2012: Updated by Clark Vance: Fixed typos
  • December 18, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected builders
  • June 28, 2010: Added by Calvin Sneed

Sources 

  • Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Luke
  • Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com

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