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Ritner Creek, Polk County

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Inventory Number: OR/37-27-01#2
County: Polk County
Township: Pedee - Kings Valley
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Ritner Creek
Crosses: Ritner Creek
Truss type: Howe
Spans: 1
Length: 75'-6"
Roadway Width:
Built: 1927
Builder: Otis Hamar
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N44 43.689
Longitude: W123 26.515
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 4.2 miles south of jct Maple Grove Rd. (northeast of Pedee) on OR223 to bridge on the east side of the road.

Ritner Creek Bridge, Pedee-Kings Valley, Polk County, OR Built 1927
Oregon Department of Transportation Photo

Ritner Creek Bridge, Pedee-Kings Valley, Polk County, OR Built 1927
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Ritner Creek Bridge, Pedee-Kings Valley, Polk County, OR Built 1927
Ben Maxwell Collection, Salem Library

Ritner Creek Bridge, Pedee-Kings Valley, Polk County, OR Built 1927
Bill Caswell Photo, June 2006

Ritner Creek Bridge, Pedee-Kings Valley, Polk County, OR Built 1927
Oregon Department of Transportation Photo

Ritner Creek Bridge, Pedee-Kings Valley, Polk County, OR Built 1927
Traugott Keller Photograph, October 5, 1964, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
The bridge was constructed at a cost of $6,963.78. The portals of this bridge were once rounded. They were cut square in the early 1960s to accommodate taller trucks. Closed, moved 60' downstream in 1976.

Sources:
Nelson, Lee H.. A Century of Oregon Covered Bridges 1851-1952, 1960, pages 200-201
Cockrell, Nick & Bill. Roofs Over Rivers - A Guide to Oregon's Covered Bridges, 1978, pages 80, 91
Oregon Covered Bridge Society. Bridge Tender (The), 1979-present, Volume 35, No. 1, Spring 2014, page 5
Oregon Department of Transportation.
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 97

Compilation 2026 Covered Spans of Yesteryear

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