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Side view

Photos taken Oct. 2001 and provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department

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One span

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Approach

Map

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Facts

Overview: Two-span through truss bridge over Lee Creek on AR 59 near the community of Natural Dam
Location: Crawford County, Arkansas
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1934 by contractor M.E. Gillioz, replacing an earlier truss bridge built in 1907 by the Illinois Steel Bridge Co.
Builder: - M.E. Gillioz of Monett, Missouri
Design: Pennsylvania through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 142.0 ft.
Total length: 585.8 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.8 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude: +35.64564, -94.39305 (decimal degrees)
35°38'44" N, 94°23'35" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/373884/3945539 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Natural Dam
Inventory numbers: AHTD 01811 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
NRHP 90000508 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 10318 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 08/2007): Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 33.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005): 1,800

Update Log

January 20, 2005: Posted AHTD photos

Sources

HAER AR-24 - Lee Creek Bridge
AHTD
Fredrick Garcia - fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com

Comments

Natural Dam Bridge

Posted February 26, 2007, by Fred Garcia (fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com)

Visited this bridge at 5:30 pm on 25 Feb '07. Arrived almost at sunset, but I got a few decent photos from each side and through the windshield as I drove across. Lee creek was up from rain the day before so profile views were out of the question. Upstream of this bridge is Natural Dam that is so close, if you don't visit you've missed out big time. It is a pretty spot with a 4' cragy ledgedrop, and a low-water bridge just below it. A nice picnic area with ample parking is adjacent to the falls.

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Natural Dam Bridge

Posted December 20, 2006, by Confused teen 108 (N/A)

I have lived in Natural Dam all of my life. Natural dam is a wonderful place to live the bridge is beautiful and so is the dam. Two years ago the dam and the bridge flooded and was so coll except for the people who's house flooded. the bridge was closed for about two hours and that bridge is tall for it to be flooded. Well I hope you come to Natural dam and visit us some time.