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Index Bridge
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 | Arkansas Highway Department Announces Replacment for Index BridgeJPEG image (437 KB) Arkansas Highways Magazine, March/April 1974
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Description
This bridge was built in 1919. According to documents provided by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, the bridge was constructed using trusses of two former bridges that were hauled via barge and re-assembled assembled on site. The two southmost spans came from a railroad bridge, well the remaining three spans came from a double-Decker Bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Red River on US 71 built 1919
- Location
- Little River County, Arkansas, and Miller County, Arkansas
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge 1980
- History
- Built 1919; Replaced 1980
- Design
- Through truss
- Also called
- Old US 71 Red River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.55235, -94.04311 (decimal degrees)
33°33'08" N, 94°02'35" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/403166/3713009 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ogden
- Inventory number
- BH 44645 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 21, 2020: New photo from Austin Ardwin
- September 22, 2019: New photos from Austin Ardwin
- September 19, 2019: Updated by Austin Ardwin: C
- August 28, 2016: New photo from Austin Ardwin
- November 22, 2015: New photo from Wayne Kizziar
- April 18, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- April 18, 2014: Updated by Brad Smith: lost date from nbi data on new bridge
- May 13, 2010: Updated by David Backlin: Added approx GPS
- March 28, 2010: Added by David Backlin
Related Bridges
- KCS - Red River Bridge (Upstream)
Sources
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
- Brad Smith - gaberdine [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
- Wayne Kizziar - waynekizziar [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Index Bridge
You can view the plans for this bridge at:
https://www.arkansashighways.com/historic_bridge/State%20Hig...
Old US 71 Red River Bridge
OMG this bridge was scary! About 21 feet wide and full speed traffic!
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The replacement for this bridge was built in 1974/75 (The current US-71 SB bridge) I am relatively sure they also tore this bridge down at the same time. Both directions of the traffic traveled across the replacement until 1981 (actually later... They built the NB bridge but the road on one side was not ready for what seemed like three or four years. You could drive across the new bridge and do a U-turn onto the other (now Northbound) bridge...