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Sugar Creek Bridge
Photo
CR-3 Bridge
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BH Photo #290078
Video
New Mothman Evidence Parts of this bridge can be seen in this particular clip. You can tell where they are by the street sign in the background saying Sugar Creek Road.
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Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Sugar Creek on CR 3/8
- Location
- Pleasants County, West Virginia
- Status
- Closed to all traffic and bypassed by modern truss bridge
- History
- Built 1894
- Design
- Pin-connected, 7-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 118.1 ft.
Total length: 120.1 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.3 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.39433, -81.05995 (decimal degrees)
39°23'40" N, 81°03'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/494837/4360539 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Bens Run
- Inventory number
- BH 35453 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of July 2014)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 16.3 (out of 100)
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This bridge was featured in an episode of Destination America's Mountain Monsters in Season 1, Episode 5. They attempted to trap the infamous Mothman from this very bridge.