Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Allen Creek, 4.0 mi. north and 2.0 mi. east of Americus
- Location
- Lyon County, Kansas
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1930
- Design
- Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 67.9 ft.
Total length: 69.9 ft.
Deck width: 13.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.56500, -96.23000 (decimal degrees)
38°33'54" N, 96°13'48" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory number
- BH 17985 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 01/2005)
- Substructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 16.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 10
Comments
Allen Creek Bridge
Visited this bridge today, and I am sad to say that it is gone. The bridge can't be accessed from the west side (somebody gated off the road-which is closed anyway). The east entrance is heavily grown up with trees, but a person can walk right up to where the bridge used to be. The rock retaining walls where the ends of the bridge sat are still visible on each side of the river, but that is all that is left.