Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over a branch of Shoo Fly Creek, 1.2 mi. east of Hunnewell
- Location
- Sumner County, Kansas
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1920
- Design
- Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 59.0 ft.
Total length: 61.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.00000, -97.38167 (decimal degrees)
37°00'00" N, 97°22'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/643998/4096096 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Blackwell NW
- Inventory number
- BH 18618 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 03/2005)
- Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 18.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
- 10
Comments
Branch Shoo Fly Creek Bridge
Interesting old bridge. I spent a lot of time hunting and fishing in the area as I was growing up in Sumner County. My aunt and uncle lived just to the southwest of the bridge in Oklahoma.
I remember one time in the late 1960's when I delivered an old John Deere model 55 combine with a 12' header to a person in Hunnewell. I had to cross the bridge, and it was a really narrow bridge! I also remember wondering if the bridge would hold up under the weight of the combine.