Collapsed Bridge over Spring Creek on Lost (Logging?) Road
Photos
Looking East
Photo taken by Patrick Feller
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
BH Photo #307426
Description
The remains of at least one steel stringer bridge span are on the south bank of the creek, alongside remains of an asphalt covered wooden deck. There are the remains of timber supports, in the creek and on the south bank. Higher on the banks on both north and south sides are the remains of steel guardrails and asphalt paving.The area had been heavily used for logging decades ago and there are many tracks of old logging roads in the woods in the area, though development has obliterated most traces.
It is clear that after this bridge collapsed, the south end (now heavily eroded) was used as a dump, mostly for tires, until very recently.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Steel stringer bridge over Spring Creek on Unknown
- Location
- Spring, Harris County, Texas, and Montgomery County, Texas
- Status
- Collapsed
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.06271, -95.33497 (decimal degrees)
30°03'46" N, 95°20'06" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/274908/3328032 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Maedan
- Inventory number
- BH 63955 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Patrick Feller - nakrnsm [at] aol [dot] com
Comments
The bridge was definitely definitely built during the 80's. You can see from the sky view on Google Earth using the historical timeline view going back and comparing the 1989 view to the 1978 view that it was part of a road that was built during that time period. The road doesn't even show up on the historical aerial views in google earth until the 1989 photo.
I remember in the late 70's to early 80's riding our bikes out to this bridge. We would ride up Treaschwig and hop the fence at the curve. On Google maps you can still see the dirt road. At that time, more of the bridge on the south side was still up, but hanging down into the water. You could still see the roadway (although a little overgrown at the time) on the north side and a few of the pillars. We always wanted to ride up the road just to see where it went.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/tx/harris/bh63955/
here's that picture of the sky view on google earth