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Photos taken Oct. 2005 by Tom Hall
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Overview
Covered bridge over Mill Creek on CR N550W
Location
Parke County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1907 by D.M. Brown
Design
Covered Burr arch-truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 89.9 ft.
Total length: 110.9 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.5 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Tow Path Covered Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.90850, -87.36069   (decimal degrees)
39°54'31" N, 87°21'38" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/469170/4417663 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Kingman
Inventory numbers
INNBI 6100152 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-61-29 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 78000403 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 16816 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 05/2006)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
108

Categories 

Built 1907 (223)
Built during 1900s (2,520)
Burr arch-truss (131)
Covered (564)
Indiana (1,607)
NR-listed (1,569)
One-lane traffic (6,990)
Open (22,301)
Owned by county (14,359)
Parke County, Indiana (43)
Span length 75-100 feet (3,318)
Structurally deficient (12,077)
Sufficiency rating zero (257)
Through truss (5,560)
Total length 100-125 feet (2,509)
Truss (16,277)
Wooden deck (5,164)

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