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Overview: Covered bridge over East Fork Little Miami River on McCafferty Road (CR 105)
Location: Brown County, Ohio
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1877; rehabilitated 1963
Design: Covered Howe through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 153.9 ft.
Total length: 160.1 ft.
Deck width: 13.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.15150, -83.99417 (decimal degrees)
39°09'05" N, 83°59'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 17/241259/4337859 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Fayetteville
Inventory numbers: ODOT 834076 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure feature number)
WGCB 35-08-08 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 27325 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 11/2006): Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 20.6 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1951): 150

McCafferty Covered Bridge

Posted October 30, 2007, by Bill Eichelberger (wallyum [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Still open the last time I visited, but it had recently been repaired after having a pickup truck crash through one of the main timbers.