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Adopted bridges

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Comanche County Blue Beaver Creek – 1916 Pratt Pony Truss

The Blue Beaver Creek Pratt Pony Truss design is indicative of its rural setting, period of construction, and early bridge building developments in Comanche County. Although the Pratt pony truss was a common bridge type in Oklahoma and elsewhere, the Blue Beaver Creek example was much longer in length than the average bridge of its type, as well as originally being placed higher above the water than most other Pratt ponies in Oklahoma.

HAER documentation

Status: Adopted by Y’Shua Camp. 
The bridge crosses Medicine Creek, a meandering creek that runs roughly northwest to southeast in this area. 

Location (KMZ file): On a private drive accessed from NW Comanche Drive and Apache Drive approximately 1 mile north and 1 mile west of Meers.
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Grant County Sand Creek - 1940 Camelback Pony Truss 

The Sand Creek Bridge was built in 1936 and is a rare example of a six-panel Camelback pony truss. The bridge is one of seven WPA bridges funded for Grant County that were to replace deficient bridges. The bridge carried County Road EW-18 over Sand Creek.

HAER documenation

Status: Adopted by Harper County and the City of Buffalo 


Location (KMZ file): Doby Springs Golf Course, approximately 8 miles west of Buffalo
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Cloud Creek - 1911 Warren with Polygonal Top Chord Pony Truss
Indiana’s Vincennes Bridge Company built this bridge in 1911. A heavily built, 80-foot Warren pony truss with a polygonal top chord, it previously spanned a creek near Boynton in Muskogee County.

HAER documentation

Status: Adopted for relocation in Muskogee County - August 2009


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Tulsa County - SH-11 Hominy Creek 1940 K-thru Truss 
This type of thru truss is rare, nationally, but ODOT adopted its design as a standard plan in the 1930s, making it a prevalent structure type in Oklahoma until the 1950s.  Through replacement, however, there are very few left.  This bridge was adopted by a private citizen in Skiatook and moved roughly 2.5 miles north to be placed roughly 150 feet east of SH-11, just north of 136th Street for public display and visitation.

HAER Documentation


Status: Adopted by a private citizen in Skiatook - December 2017