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Postcard Postcard view of the bridge looking from the west |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Current River on US 60 at Van Buren
- Location
- Carter County, Missouri
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1924-26 by M.E. Gillioz; demolished 1996
- Builder
- - M.E. Gillioz of Monett, Missouri (Contractor)
- Design
- From west to east:
One riveted, 6-panel Pratt through truss
One riveted, 10-panel Parker through truss
Ten (?) Warren pony truss spans
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 200.1 ft.
Total length: 1,141.1 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.99199, -91.01474 (decimal degrees)
36°59'31" N, 91°00'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/676668/4095826 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 27 N., R. 1 W., Sec. 24
- USGS topographic map
- Van Buren South
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT G-712A1 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 21162 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 09/1991)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 14.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1991)
- 4,299
Sources
- Historic American Engineering Record
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
Comments
The bridge is a link to memories. Grandmas and grandpas,uncles,aunts,cousins,jolly cone,school,library,Prices grocery,comic books from the "drug?" store at the end of the bridge.AH yes I remember it well!Anyway most of it.
I am from Van Buren and I have a picture that my mother took of this bridge which is almost identical to this postcard. I have a lot of memories of this old bridge. Van Buren what a wonderful place.