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Bulman Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Bowstring pony truss bridge over Pecan Creek on a pedestrian path in Pecan Creek Park
- Location
- Hamilton, Hamilton County, Texas
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1884 by the King Bridge Co. over Leon River on CR 301. Relocated and restored in Pecan Creek Park in 1996.
- Builder
- - King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
- Design
- Bowstring pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 85.0 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
- Also called
- Bullman Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +31.71024, -98.11472 (decimal degrees)
31°42'37" N, 98°06'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/583883/3508659 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hamilton East
- Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 25
- Inventory numbers
- TXNBI 090980AA0284001 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 49430 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of May 2008)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 83.5 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- June 28, 2022: New Street View added by Bambi Sharkoman
- March 24, 2014: New photo from aaron leibold
- August 27, 2011: Added by James McCray
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Pics and info on Bulman (Bullman) Bridge - Flickr photos of this bridge is copyrighted so a link to the url is necessary.
- Texasescapes.com
- aaron leibold - aaron [dot] mightypenguin [at] gmail [dot] com
- Jesse Sharkoman Berube - jesseberube5 [at] gmail [dot] com
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There is a mural in downtown Hamilton of the bridge in its original location.