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Overview

Photos taken July 2001 and provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department
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Close-up of arch

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Deck view

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Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia

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Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia

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Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia

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Facts 

Overview
Two-span open-spandrel arch bridge over Middle Fork Saline River on AR 7
Location
Garland County, Arkansas
Status
Open to two-lane traffic
History
Built 1933 by the Ault-Rich Construction Co. of Cassville, Missouri
Builder
- Ault-Rich Construction Co.
Design
Open-spandrel arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 69.8 ft.
Total length: 145.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+34.72118, -93.05654   (decimal degrees)
34°43'16" N, 93°03'24" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
USGS topographic map
Jesseville
Inventory numbers
AHTD 01781 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
BH 10347 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 10/2005)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 43.8 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
1,200

Categories 

AR 7 (14)
Arch (7,541)
Arkansas (519)
Ault-Rich Construction Co. (1)
Built 1933 (326)
Built during 1930s (5,104)
Deck arch (6,638)
Functionally obsolete (5,033)
Garland County, Arkansas (13)
NR-eligible (2,570)
Open (21,537)
Open-spandrel arch (194)
Owned by state (6,495)
Span length 50-75 feet (4,624)
Total length 125-175 feet (2,613)

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Comments 

Middle Fork AR 7 Bridge
Posted March 28, 2008, by Jolene V (joakabridgefreak [at] yahoo [dot] com)

I AGREE! MORE PICS PLEASE!! I will also be sending more as I can get them!!

What?
Posted January 30, 2008, by Andrew (setanor [at] gmail [dot] com)

You guys are weird. You visit enough to comment on a site that obsessively catalogs bridges everywhere yet you feel offended or annoyed somehow that someone dare obsessively photograph said bridges. You'd rather have one photo and be done with it? I'd rather have as many as possible for each of these bridges so I can see exactly what makes them each unique.

More photos, please.

Middle Fork AR 7 Bridge
Posted March 2, 2007, by Anonymous

I like Fred’s Pictures. Some may be of bridges already photographed, but I like his views. Most of these bridges won’t last much longer, it’s nice that some one has taken the time to share what some of us may never get a chance to see.

Middle Fork AR 7 Bridge
Posted March 2, 2007, by old_iron_bridge

Amen to that brother. The web page header should read, " Historic Repeating Bridge Photos of Fred Garcia."

Middle Fork AR 7 Bridge
Posted March 2, 2007, by Anonymous

Has this web site become the Fred Garcia redundant photo page or what?

Middle Fork AR 7 Bridge
Posted March 1, 2007, by Fred Garcia (fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com)

Visited this bridge at 11:00 a.m. on 01 March 2007. This stream is unmarked on the highway. There is no way to tell that there is an open spandrel concrete arch below the deck, unless you get out of your vehicle and start down the embankment at either abuttment. Clear water stream. There is a downstream gravel bar but essentially its impossible to get a photo of the entire bridge from a profile view. Guardrails seem rather flimsy. Some old concrete segments that were once part of the bridge lay at the foot of abuttments.

Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.