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Overview: Through truss bridge over Neches River on Westbound TX 73 in Port Arthur
Location: Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, and Orange County, Texas
Status: Open to traffic
History: Opened Sept. 8, 1938; parallel bridge built 1991; rehabilitated and reopened to northbound traffic in 1998
Builders: - Ash, Howard, Needles, & Tammen of Kansas City, Missouri
- George Wickline of the Texas Highway Department's Bridge Division
- Taylor-Fitcher Steel Construction Co.
- Texas Highway Department
- Union Bridge & Construction Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
Design: Cantilevered Warren through and deck truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 680.2 ft.
Total length: 7,741.5 ft. (1.5 mi.)
Deck width: 22.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
Also called: Port Arthur-Orange Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +29.98000, -93.87111 (decimal degrees)
29°58'48" N, 93°52'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/415964/3316888 (zone/easting/northing)
Average daily traffic (as of 2016): 16,000
Inventory numbers: NRHP 96001127 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
TXNBI 201240030603015 (Texas bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 33135 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of July 2018): Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 45.7 (out of 100)
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