Facts
- Overview
- Three-span stone arch bridge over Grouse Creek, southwest of Dexter
- Location
- Cowley County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to one-lane traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1890
- Design
- Stone arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 50.9 ft.
Total length: 182.1 ft.
Deck width: 13.1 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 1985
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.13534, -96.78083 (decimal degrees)
37°08'07" N, 96°46'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- NRHP 85001423 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 17627 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 11/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 46.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2000)
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Comments
There is an inscription on the upstream side of what has come to be known as "Esch's Spur" bridge. It reads: KIRK BRIDGE. At least, I think it does. Plus, there are several more lines of information that we could not discern. Anyone able to read more? There is so much debris abutted against the bridge now that it might be able to climb up to the inscription and take a rubbing!
There is an inscription on the upstream side of what has come to be known as "Esch's Spur" bridge. It reads: KIRK BRIDGE. At least, I think it does. Plus, there are several more lines of information that we could not discern. Anyone able to read more? There is so much debris abutted against the bridge now that it might be able to climb up to the inscription and take a rubbing!