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Facts
- Overview
- Five-span arch bridge over Des Moines River on Court Avenue in Des Moines
- Location
- Polk County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1918; rehabilitated 1982
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 91.9 ft.
Total length: 496.1 ft.
Deck width: 68.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.58572, -93.61769 (decimal degrees)
41°35'09" N, 93°37'04" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/448513/4603965 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Des Moines SE
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 98000489 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 14246 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 07/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 77.2 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 4,940
Sources
- HAER IA-70 - Court Avenue Bridge
- Historic American Engineering Record
