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Byer Covered Bridge

Covered bridge · Jackson County, Ohio

Northern portal of the Byer Covered Bridge, which carries Byer Winters Road over Pigeon Creek in Washington Township, Jackson County, Ohio, United States. Built
Northern portal of the Byer Covered Bridge, which carries Byer Winters Road over Pigeon Creek in Washington Township, Jackson County, Ohio, United States. Built · Nyttend / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Byer Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Jackson County, Ohio. Ohio has 147 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow, 3 of them in Jackson County.

It is about 74 feet long (25th longest of 40 measured in Ohio).

Status check, 2026-11: Smith truss over Pigeon Creek, repaired in 2003 and listed as open to traffic; build year given as 1872, 1870 or c.1870, so left null. Byer Covered Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands at 39.1796° N, 82.6314° W.

Key facts

Length74 ft
Heritage designationNational Register of Historic Places listed place
National RegisterListed
Coordinates39.17958, -82.63140

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Questions

Where is Byer Covered Bridge?

Byer Covered Bridge is in Jackson County, Ohio, at 39.1796, -82.6314.

How many covered bridges are in Jackson County?

Jackson County, Ohio has 3 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.

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