Benton City – Kiona Bridge

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Coordinates: 46°15′10.54″N 119°28′31.74″W / 46.2529278°N 119.4754833°W / 46.2529278; -119.4754833 (Benton City – Kiona Bridge)
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Benton City – Kiona Bridge
Looking up at the bridge from the banks of the Yakima River
Coordinates46°15′10.54″N 119°28′31.74″W / 46.2529278°N 119.4754833°W / 46.2529278; -119.4754833 (Benton City – Kiona Bridge)
Carries SR 225
CrossesYakima River
LocaleBenton City, Washington
Maintained byWSDOT
ID number082446000000000
Characteristics
Designbox girder bridge/cable-stayed bridge
MaterialSteel
Total length400 feet (121.9 m)
Width26 feet (7.8 m)
History
DesignerHomer M. Hadley
OpenedJuly 4, 1957 (1957-07-04)
Statistics
Daily traffic9,500 (2012)
Location
Map
References
[1][2]

The Benton City – Kiona Bridge is a steel

Washington Heritage Register
on January 25, 2002.

Description

The Benton City – Kiona Bridge is located about 150 feet (46 m) from the southern terminus of

bicycle lanes, the bridge does not.[3] The bridge does feature 4-foot-wide (1.2 m) sidewalks raised 10 inches (25 cm) above the roadway surface.[5]

The bridge, as well as the remainder of SR 225 are considered a major collector road by the

average annual daily traffic (AADT), a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year. In 2012, WSDOT calculated that 9,500 vehicles traveled on SR-225 along the bridge.[2]

History

Earlier spans

The first span recorded was built by 1901. That bridge was destroyed during a flood along the Yakima River in late 1917.[8] This bridge was recorded on the Pasco quadrangle produced by the United States Geological Survey in 1914.[9] The letters "US" were inscribed in one of the approach spans of the bridge as a way marker for travelers through the region.[10] Major flooding happened along the Yakima River near Benton City in 1894, 1917, 1922, 1933, and 1948.[11] A new bridge was built after the original span collapsed in the flood. By 1954 the second bridge was considered no longer sufficient for the traveling public with a roadway less than 17 feet (5.2 m) wide.[12] The second bridge was torn down in 1964, seven years after the opening of the current bridge.[13]

Approaching bridge from the north

Current span

The first proposals for the current bridge were submitted in November 1955, with a cost estimate of $140 thousand (equivalent to $1.2 million in 2023).[14] The bridge was designed so that there was a clearance of 2 feet 9 inches (0.84 m) higher than the 1933 Yakima River flood level.[5][15] The new bridge was to be built 600 feet (180 m) downstream from the previous bridge,[16] but was built 300 feet (91 m) upstream instead.[17] The second bridge had been in place for 40 years and was seeing an average of 1,700 cars-per-day over the bridge.[16] By comparison 9,500 cars on an average 2012 day travel over the current bridge.[2]

Everett McKellar of

Third Lake Washington Bridge was named after him.[19] The cost of the bridge came out at just over $196 thousand (equivalent to $1.7 million in 2023),[14][20] and was opened to traffic on July 4, 1957.[5][21]

The bridge is believed to be the first steel box girder bridge built in the United States.[5]

The bridge was listed on the

Washington Heritage Register on January 25, 2002.[22]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Federal Highway Administration (2012). "NBI Structure Number: 082446000000000". National Bridge Inventory. Federal Highway Administration.
  2. ^ a b c Staff. 2012 Annual Traffic Report (PDF) (Report). WSDOT. p. 158. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "State Highway Log Planning Report 2012: SR 2 to SR 971" (PDF). Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). p. 1152. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  4. ^ Google (January 21, 2014). "Benton City – Kiona Bridge" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  5. ^
    OCLC 10480594
    .
  6. ^ WSDOT Functional Classification Map (Map). Washington State Department of Transportation. January 21, 2014. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014.
  7. ^ Highway Functional Classification Concepts, Criteria and Procedures (PDF). Federal Highway Administration. 2013. p. 17. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  8. ^ "Kiona Bridge, River Frozen Over. Marjorie Standing on Ice". Washington Rural Heritage. January 1909. Archived from the original on May 19, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  9. ^ Pasco Quadrangle (Map). 1:125,000. Cartography by USGS. United States Geological Survey. 1917. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  10. OCLC 5759973
    . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  11. OCLC 18320586. Archived from the original
    on January 22, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  12. OCLC 1519687
    . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  13. ^ Dunlap, Robert J (1964). "Old Bridge torn down". Washington Rural Heritage. Archived from the original on May 19, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  14. ^
    Gross Domestic Product deflator
    figures follow the MeasuringWorth series.
  15. OCLC 14374699
    .
  16. ^
    OCLC 43628599
    .
  17. OCLC 11102610
    . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  18. ^ Soderberg, Lisa (1979). "Keiona - Benton City Bridge" (PDF). OAHP Inventory. Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 2, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  19. ISBN 978-1-4398-1029-3
    . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
  20. OCLC 43628599
    .
  21. OCLC 43628599
    .
  22. ^ Staff. "Benton City-Kiona Bridge". Historic Register Report. Washington State Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 2, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2014.

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