Blackburn Point Bridge

Blackburn Point Bridge
Blackburn Point Bridge
Coordinates	27°10′46″N 82°29′41″W / 27.17944°N 82.49472°W
Carries	CR 789
Crosses	Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Locale	Osprey, Florida
Official name	Blackburn Point Bridge
Owner	Sarasota County
Maintained by	Sarasota County
ID number	170064
Characteristics
Design	Swing bridge
Material	Steel
Trough construction	Steel
Pier construction	Concrete
Total length	142.1 ft (43 m)
Width	15.7 ft (5 m)
Longest span	142.1 ft (43 m)
No. of spans	1
Piers in water	1
Clearance below	51 ft (16 m)
No. of lanes	1
History
Architect	Champion Bridge Company
Constructed by	Quinn and Powell Construction
Construction start	1925
Opened	December 15, 1926
Statistics
Daily traffic	4,900 (2015)
Toll	None
	Blackburn Point Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Side view of the bridge, from a boat
Location	Osprey, Florida
Coordinates	27°10′46″N 82°29′41″W / 27.17944°N 82.49472°W
Built	1926
NRHP reference No.	01000290
Added to NRHP	March 29, 2001
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The Blackburn Point Bridge is a historic swing bridge located near Osprey, Florida, United States, that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is a one-lane swing bridge located on Blackburn Point Road at the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. It is the northernmost of the two bridges connecting the barrier island Casey Key to the mainland of Florida.

v t e Bridges and tunnels in Florida
Panhandle	Escambia Bay Garcon Point John Gorrie Mid-Bay Pensacola Bay St. George Island Trammell Victory
North	Acosta Bridge of Lions Main Street Buckman Dames Point Fuller Warren Hart Mathews Memorial Strauss Trunnion Little Lake Harris Herman C. McCray Jr. L.E. Buie
West Central	Bayside Clearwater Memorial Courtney Campbell Gandy Howard Frankland Pinellas Bayway Sunshine Skyway Treasure Island
East Central	A. Max Brewer Alma Lee Loy Astor Bennett Bert Dosh Broadway Eau Gallie Granada Lake Jesup Lake Underhill Melbourne Merrill P. Barber Merritt Island NASA Osteen Pete Damon Pineda Port Orange Roosevelt Sebastian Inlet Torry Island Wabasso Whitehair
South	Blue Heron Broad Coral Springs^† Flagler Memorial Julia Tuttle John F. Kennedy Lehman MacArthur Rickenbacker Royal Park Snow-Reed^‡ Thomas B. Manuel Venetian
Southwest	Blackburn Point Bridge^‡ Boca Grande^‡ Bonita Beach Caloosahatchee Cape Coral Cortez Desoto Edison Fort Hamer Green John Ringling Longboat Pass Matanzas Pass Midpoint Sanibel S.S. Jolley Stan Gober Tom Adams
Keys	Bahia Honda Card Sound Jewfish Creek Long Key Overseas Highway Seven Mile
Tunnels	Henry E. Kinney Port of Miami
Ferries	Drayton Island Fort Gates Mayport
Lists	List of bridges in Florida List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida List of movable bridges in Florida
^† – Covered bridge ^‡ – Swing bridge

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