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View from a distance

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View from northwest

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View from southwest

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View from northeast

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North portal

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South portal

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Standing on bridge

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Close-up of deck

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Behind north portal

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Middle joint

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Upper chord hip joint

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Underneath

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Close-up of underside

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North portal from side

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North approach

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North abutment

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Piers from below

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Lower joint

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Builder's plaque

1911
Built by
Stupp Bro's
Bridge & Iron
Company
St Louis Mo

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"Class B" marker

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"Lackawanna" steel imprint

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Plaque mounted on new bridge

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Remaining girders

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Ugly replacement bridge

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Map 

Diagram 

Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bridge over St. Francis River downstream from Wappapello Dam on CR 517
Location
Wayne County, Missouri
Status
No longer exists
History
Built 1911 by Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co.; replaced 2008
Builder
- Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
Design
Pin-connected, 10-panel Pennsylvania through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 209.9 ft.
Total length: 242.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.5 ft.
Also called
Davis Camp Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+36.92824, -90.26486   (decimal degrees)
36°55'42" N, 90°15'54" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/743616/4090406 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 26 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 2
USGS topographic map
Wappapello
Inventory numbers
MO 111-069000.5 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 14495 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22814 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 01/2007)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 17.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
100

Update Log 

  • December 17, 2008: New photos from James Baughn
  • August 14, 2008: Updated by Kim Harvey: updated status on bridge
  • March 23, 2005: Posted new photos

Sources 

  • Kim Harvey
  • James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com

Comments 

Wappapello Bridge
Posted December 18, 2008, by Wayne Kizziar (wayne1701 [at] cableone [dot] net)

Well James at least you know now that the county removed the plaques and they were not stolen.

Wappapello Bridge
Posted July 27, 2008, by chalres havens (bbigcnote [at] hotmail [dot] com)

this bridge has been torn down and is being replaced by a modern concrete girder bridge

Wappapello Bridge
Posted March 23, 2008, by Karen

Yes, the pictures on here are copyrighted.

However, I do belive the webmaster has some for sale at lulu.com, I think.

Wappapello Bridge
Posted February 4, 2008, by Jayne Allison (henrijay48 [at] aol [dot] com)

Are the pictures of the Wapppello Bridge copyrighted and who took them.