Yatesville Covered Bridge

The Yatesville Covered Bridge, in Lawrence County, Kentucky near Fallsburg, was built in 1907 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]

Yatesville Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Over Blaine Creek off Kentucky Route 3, south of Fallsburg, Kentucky
Coordinates	38°08′41″N 82°41′05″W
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1907
Architectural style	Howe Truss
NRHP reference No.	76000910[1]
Added to NRHP	March 26, 1976

It was a 128 feet (39 m) single-span Howe truss bridge over Blaine Creek, located about 1,000 yards (0.91 km) off Yatesville Road, near the Kentucky border. It had board-and-batten siding open at the top under the eaves of the structure, and a corrugated tin roof.

As of the NRHP listing in 1976, there was a "pulleyed steel sedan" about 25 yards (23 m) to the south, and the bridge was closed to vehicular traffic.[2] While there were other beliefs about its function, the cable car system was in fact for U.S. Geological Survey measurement of flow rates of the creek.[3]

The bridge no longer exists.[4]

It was the last-surviving of three known covered bridges in Lawrence County, and was saved from demolition in 1965 by a letter-writing campaign. It was bypassed, repaired, and painted red. However, in May 1986 the bridge collapsed and its remains were removed by the county.[3]