Forksville Covered Bridge
Forksville Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 307 m. Huckleberry Mountain stands 762 m to the south-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Forksville Borough Community Park, a park 0.2 miles away.
The story
The Forksville Covered Bridge is a Burr arch truss covered bridge over Loyalsock Creek in the borough of Forksville, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built in 1850 and is 152 feet 11 inches (46.61 m) in length. The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Forksville bridge is named for the borough it is in, which in turn is named for its location at the confluence or "forks" of the Little Loyalsock and Loyalsock Creeks. Pennsylvania had the first covered bridge in the United States and the most such bridges in both the 19th and 21st centuries. They were a transition between stone and metal bridges, with the roof and sides protecting the wooden structure from weather. The Forksville bridge is a Burr arch truss type, with a load-bearing arch sandwiching multiple vertical king posts, for strength and rigidity. The building of the Forksville bridge was supervised by the 18-year-old Sadler Rogers, who used his hand-carved model of the structure. It served as the site of a stream gauge from 1908 to 1913 and is still an official Pennsylvania state highway bridge. The United States Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration uses it as the model of a covered bridge "classic gable roof", and it serves as the logo of a Pennsylvania insurance company. The bridge was restored in 1970 and 2004 and is still in use, with average daily traffic of 240 vehicles in 2014. Despite the restorations, as of 2009 the bridge structure's sufficiency rating on the National Bridge Inventory was only 17.7 percent and its condition was deemed "basically intolerable requiring high priority of corrective action". It is one of three remaining covered bridges in Sullivan County, and according to Susan M. Zacher's The Covered Bridges of Pennsylvania: A Guide, its location "over the rocky Loyalsock Creek" is "one of the most attractive settings in the state."
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Wikidata Q5469847, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1850
- Weight limit
- 3 st
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Molyneux Hill: 3.3 mi
- Bear Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Wright Hill: 4.1 mi
- Lambert Hill: 4.1 mi
- Shrimp Hill: 4.5 mi
- High Rock Falls: 1.4 mi
- Cottonwood Falls: 1.9 mi
- Alpine Falls: 2.5 mi
- Armstrong-Rode Falls: 2.9 mi
- Cold Run Waterfall: 2.9 mi
- Forksville Borough Community Park: 0.2 mi
- Laporte Borough Ball Park: 7.0 mi
- Sullivan County Public Park: 7.1 mi
- Cosgrove Memorial Park: 7.2 mi
- King's Beach, Picture Rocks Park: 15.4 mi
- Laquin Lumber Co. mill: 10.2 mi
- Barclay Incline Brakehouse: 10.3 mi
- Picture Rocks Veterans Memorial: 15.8 mi
- tannery: 17.6 mi
- saw mill: 17.7 mi
- Eagles Mere: 5.4 mi
- Eagles Mere Air Museum and Eagles Mere Auto Museum: 6.0 mi
- Baldwin House: 7.1 mi
- Sullivan County Historical Society Museum: 7.1 mi
- Endless Mountains War Memorial Museum: 9.5 mi
- Tamarack Run Natural Area: 4.1 mi
- The Dell: 5.3 mi
- Conklin Run Wilderness Area: 7.8 mi
- Elklick Run Wilderness Area: 8.1 mi
- State Game Lands Number 142: 14.3 mi
- Laquin: 10.3 mi
- Masten: 11.5 mi
- Barclay: 11.6 mi
- Ricketts: 18.0 mi
- Fall Brook: 23.8 mi
- Sullivan County Fairgrounds: 0.3 mi
- Luther's Mills Covered Bridge: 20.7 mi
- Laporte House: 22.8 mi
- Mineral Spring: 2.9 mi
- Railroad Springs: 22.4 mi
- Dry Run Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Glens Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
- Picture Rocks: 15.5 mi
- "The Pier": 19.7 mi
- Hillsgrove Covered Bridge: 4.1 mi
- Baldwin House Garden: 7.1 mi
- Lake Jean Beach: 19.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.1 miles of Forksville Covered Bridge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huckleberry Mountain | SSE 159° | 762 m | 14.7 mi |
| Roundtop | SSE 153° | 758 m | 11.6 mi |
| Red Rock Mountain | SE 131° | 721 m | 18.8 mi |
| Tyler Mountain | ENE 77° | 718 m | 18.0 mi |
| Hatch Mountain | NE 36° | 704 m | 12.1 mi |
| Cahill Mountain | N 360° | 703 m | 7.2 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | NNE 30° | 700 m | 9.8 mi |
| Lake Knob | NNW 342° | 687 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:42 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:02 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:56 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 22 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 47 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laporte, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 80003639OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Forksville Covered Bridge, reference 80003639, listed 07/24/80.
OpenStreetMap element way/1437052231
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