Photos
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Side view |
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View from southeast |
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View from northwest |
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North portal |
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South portal |
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Deck view |
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Leaning truss |
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Outrigger |
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North abutment |
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South abutment |
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Historic postcard |
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Photo taken by Paul Boudreau |
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Photo taken by Paul Boudreau |
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Photo taken by Paul Boudreau |
Facts
- Overview
- Bowstring through truss bridge over Salt Fork on CR 225
- Location
- Saline County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1882 by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., using stone abutments from an earlier 1875 bridge
- Builder
- - Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas
- Design
- Bowstring through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 100.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.6 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.02667, -93.06000 (decimal degrees)
39°01'36" N, 93°03'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/494806/4319737 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 49 N., R. 20 W., Sec. 13
- USGS topographic map
- Napton
- Inventory numbers
- MO 097-351000.5 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 22330 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22487 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 02/2008)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 15.4 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
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Sources
- Paul Boudreau - paboudreau [at] mchsi [dot] com
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
Comments
I went over this bridge today. It's in good shape. The road was muddy and I didn't attempt to go farther north. Had to back up the way I came in.
What a unique old bridge. It's a great find. I went to check it out today and took some photos. It was the middle of an extremely hot, bright afternoon so the contrast between light and shadow made it difficult to get a good image. I'll upload a few that I took from water level to give a different perspective.
Webmaster's note: The photos that were here have been incorporated into the main site.