Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Salt Creek on IN 130
- Location
- Porter County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1932
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 35.7 ft.
Total length: 38.7 ft.
Deck width: 31.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.49889, -87.14101 (decimal degrees)
41°29'56" N, 87°08'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- INNBI 026300 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16862 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 12/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 81.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 9,572
Comments
Salt Creek IN 130 Bridge
This information is incorrect about this bridge. It was originally a one lane wooden ("rickety") bridge that required the drivers to stop and "blow their horn" before crossing as approaching cars from the opposite side could not be seen.
Once on top of the bridge one car would have to "back down" to let the other pass. If you look carefully at the Google Satellite map you will see that it does not span Salt Creek but railroad tracks.
This original wooden bridge is now gone replaced with a 2 lane concrete in the last few years exact date unknown still researching this information.