Rating:
34208
{98}%
1 vote
Curlew Bridge
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Curlew Bridge
Photo taken by Richard Doody in 1995
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BH Photo #420793
Description
Curlew’s first bridge across the Kettle River was constructed in 1901 by Alfred Jaques Ferry County paid $2,448 for the wooden span. It was replaced in 1908 with a steel bridge. The William Oliver Bridge Company of Spokane built the pin connected, wood decked, Parker truss. Oliver built bridges across a territory stretching from the Cascades to Missoula. The Curlew Bridge, his 165th, is still in service. That it still stands, over a century later, is a testament to Oliver’s abilities which were called into question following the collapse of the Omak drawbridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Kettle River on Ferry Street in Curlew
- Location
- Ferry County, Washington
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1908; rehabilitated 2006
- Builder
- - William Oliver Bridge Co. of Spokane, Washington (Contractor)
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 182.1 ft.
Total length: 202.1 ft.
Deck width: 13.8 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on July 16, 1982
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +48.88544, -118.60119 (decimal degrees)
48°53'08" N, 118°36'04" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/382618/5415957 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Curlew
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 176
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 82004210 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 34208 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of July 2017)
- 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: 49.1 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 20, 2018: Updated by Richard Doody: Added historical data to description
- April 3, 2018: Merged duplicate pages; untangled confusion between Curlew and Orient bridges
- April 3, 2018: Added by Richard Doody
- December 21, 2009: New photos from Michael Goff
Sources
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Wikipedia - Curlew Bridge
- Richard Doody
Glad the confusion between the Curlew vs Orient Bridge has been resolved. They both span the Kettle River and look similar from a distance.
Back before the internet, I began looking for bridges based on the national register of historic places and was quite disappointed to find the listed Orient Bridge replaced with a concrete slab. A couple of hours later and 2 border crossings in and out of Canada, I was rewarded with a view of the Curlew Bridge.