Talk:List of lists of covered bridges in North America

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Krämerbrücke Xx236 (talk) 07:01, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Should be "list of lists of covered bridges"

Propose rename, most of the items in this "list" are links to lists. Page should then be reformatted more like a standard list with less editorial. --Cornellier (talk) 19:22, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting Information

There seems to be conflicting information in the Indiana and Ohio entries. The Indiana entry, under "Notes", reads: "Ninety-eight historic covered bridges of which fourteen were built before 1870 and represent the most common truss style (Burr Arch) in the state."

Pennsylvania is later listed as having "about 219", "the most of any state." But Ohio's entry reads, "Forty-two remain, the second-highest of any state, down from over 4,000 at peak."

If Indiana has 98 covered bridges, Pennsylvania has 219, and Ohio has 42, then Ohio should have the third-highest number of covered bridges among US states, not the second-highest. The Irish Jet (talk) 13:00, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Those numbers come from the individual cited sources and will vary somewhat due to the year of publication and each one's definition of a covered bridge as opposed to simply a bridge with a cover. I don't have the source showing Ohio as having 42 in order to verify that information. However, the Ohio list itself says 125, which would place it second behind Pennsylvania and ahead of Vermont with 106, as its source claims, with Indiana being fourth. A baseline for comparison among states is the World Guide to Covered Bridges last published in 2009, though updates are provided on their web site as they learn of either new bridges being built or old ones being destroyed. According to that source, the "top four" states are Pennsylvania (210), Ohio (140), Vermont (99), and Indiana (89). While I do not want to remove the Ohio information, since it comes from a properly cited and presumably reliable source, I will reword the notes and flag the 42 as disputed. Thanks for bringing attention to this discrepancy! Waz⁸:T-C-E 00:35, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It should be fourth, as Oregon is cited as having fifty. 2601:1C2:C001:1AD0:88A5:2622:631A:C (talk) 19:39, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Number of remaining covered bridges in Ohio

The World Guide to Covered Bridges also lists Ohio as the state having the second highest number of covered bridges, but it shows 140 as the actual count. Given that Ohio's own list accounts for about 125 of them, I'm wondering if the cited source showing 42 was misquoted. Does anyone have that source to verify 42 is what it states? Waz⁸:T-C-E 00:52, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]