Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Skunk River on a local road in Ames
- Location
- Ames, Story County, Iowa
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1876; rehabilitated 1974
- Design
- Through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 80.1 ft.
Total length: 163.1 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.5 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.98656, -93.58749 (decimal degrees)
41°59'12" N, 93°35'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/451335/4648451 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 83 N., R. 24 W., Sec. 24
- USGS topographic map
- Huxley
- Inventory numbers
- IA 314920 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 14441 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 01/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 20.6 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1999)
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