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Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Branch Des Moines River on a local road
- Location
- Wapello County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1935
- Design
- Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 40.0 ft.
Total length: 42.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.00337, -92.57254 (decimal degrees)
41°00'12" N, 92°34'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/535948/4539219 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 72 N., R. 15 W., Sec. 27
- USGS topographic map
- Chillicothe
- Inventory numbers
- IA 331650 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 14589 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 07/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 39.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 90
Comments
Branch Des Moines River Bridge
A better name for this bridge is the "Bear Creek Bridge" since it takes 215th Avenue over Bear Creek seven miles east of where Bear Creek joins the Des Moines River at Ottumwa. This bridge is easy to find being a half mile south of US Hwy 34 between Ottumwa and Albia.
Photos taken November 9, 2008 are attached and my coordinates (41.00494, -92.57240) compare well with those provided.
Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.