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Photos taken July 2006 by Tom Hall
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Overview
Steel through arch bridge over Sugar Creek on 900N Road (CH 9), 3.25 mi. east of Milford
Location
Iroquois County, Illinois
Status
Open to one-lane traffic
History
Built 1904(?)
Design
Steel through arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 159.0 ft.
Total length: 163.0 ft.
Deck width: 17.3 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.6 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.62605, -87.63642   (decimal degrees)
40°37'34" N, 87°38'11" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/446174/4497441 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Milford
Inventory numbers
IL 038-5500 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15334 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 09/2006)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 37.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2002)
350

Categories 

Arch (7,640)
Built 1904 (176)
Built during 1900s (2,418)
Illinois (925)
Iroquois County, Illinois (31)
NR-eligible (2,574)
One-lane traffic (305)
Open (21,823)
Owned by county (14,294)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,029)
Steel through arch (132)
Structurally deficient (10,852)
Total length 125-175 feet (2,694)
Wooden deck (5,165)

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Sugar Creek Bridge
Posted August 3, 2008, by bradley glover (gloverbe [at] hoopeston [dot] k12 [dot] il [dot] us)

There is no mention to the fact that this bridge was built from the frame work of the ferris wheel at the 1892 Chicago Worlds Fair