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Sunny Valley Covered Bridge (aka Grave Creek Bridge) Sunny Valley Covered Bridge (aka Grave Creek Bridge) Photo taken by Larry Matthews |
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Grave Creek Covered Bridge Photo taken by Michael Goff on March 22, 2007 |
Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Grave Creek on Sunny Valley Loop
- Location
- Josephine County, Oregon
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1920; rehabilitated 2001
- Builders
- - Conde B. McCullough
- J. Elmer Nelson
- Design
- Covered Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 105.0 ft.
Total length: 220.2 ft.
Deck width: 18.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Grave Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.63628, -123.37736 (decimal degrees)
42°38'11" N, 123°22'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/469061/4720494 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 34 S., R. 6 W., Sec. 11
- USGS topographic map
- Glendale
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 37-17-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 79002077 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 30008 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 06/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 83.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 1,044
Update Log
- July 8, 2008: Updated by Michael Goff
- June 18, 2008: New photo from Michael Goff
- February 17, 2008: New photo from Larry Matthews
Sources
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
- Larry Matthews - ffhiker [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Michael Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] odot [dot] state [dot] or [dot] us
- Grave Creek Bridge HAER Webpage