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Photos taken July 2003 and provided by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department

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Underneath

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Added piers

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Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia

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Photo taken by Fredrick Garcia

Map

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Facts

Overview: Three-span cantilevered deck truss bridge over South Fork Little Red River on US 65 in Clinton
Location: Van Buren County, Arkansas
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1931 by M.K. Orr of Little Rock; rehabilitated 1962
Builder: - M.K. Orr
Design: Deck truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 100.0 ft.
Total length: 404.8 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude: +35.58667, -92.45167 (decimal degrees)
35°35'12" N, 92°27'06" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/549676/3938243 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Clinton
Inventory numbers: AHTD 01486 (Arkansas Highway and Transportation Dept. bridge number)
BH 10639 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection
Average daily traffic (as of 1998): 50

Update Log

January 7, 2005: Posted new photos

Sources

AHTD
Fredrick Garcia - fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com

Comments

South Fork US 65 Bridge

Posted February 12, 2007, by Fred Garcia (fandsgarcia [at] gmail [dot] com)

Visited this bridge on Saturday, 10 Feb. 2007, at 11:00 am.

I have been told by a resident of Clinton that this bridge will be demolished when a new bridge and road cut are built to straighten out the curves on Hwy 65.

This bridge has been previously widened as there are additional piers on the downstream side. The cantilevered iron work substructure is hardly noticeable as one drives across. Well built with riveted components.

Pilgrims Pride has a poultry processing plant about a mile upstream from the bridge. Swallows have built 100's of mud nest pasted to the concrete underside. The river eventually merges with Greers Ferry Lake.

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