Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Octoraro Creek on Ross Fording Road
- Location
- Chester County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1885 by the Phoenix Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Phoenix Bridge Co.
- Design
- Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 84.0 ft.
Total length: 86.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.4 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.88167, -75.99333 (decimal degrees)
39°52'54" N, 75°59'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/415062/4415095 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Parkesburg
- Inventory numbers
- PA 15 3052 0010 0000 (Pennsylvania bridge number)
NRHP 88000849 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 30683 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 03/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 37.5 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
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