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Overview: Through truss bridge over the Mississippi River on US 82 between Greenville and Lake Village
Status: Open to traffic
Future prospects: Replacement bridge currently under construction
History: Opened to traffic Sept. 17, 1940
Design: Cantilevered through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 839.6 ft.
Total length: 9,954.4 ft.
Deck width: 23.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.2 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +33.29315, -91.15959 (decimal degrees)
33°17'35" N, 91°09'35" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory number: BH 10250 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Greenville Bridge

Posted April 22, 2008, by Brad (bwana39 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

This bridge will be demolished when the new bridge and its aproaches are complete. Probably some time next year.

Greenville Bridge

Posted July 15, 2007, by brad smith (gaberdine [at] hotmail [dot] com)

The 1940 Benjamin Humphreys Bridge will be coming down in 2008 or 2009 and is replaced to a new bridge slightly upstream.