Amelia Earhart Bridge
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Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over the Missouri River on US 59 at Atchison
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Likely to be replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1937-38; rehabilitated 1975
- Builders
- - Sverdrup and Parcel
- Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Design
- Cantilevered Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 474.0 ft.
Total length: 2,677.4 ft.
Deck width: 23.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.1 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.55983, -95.11284 (decimal degrees)
39°33'35" N, 95°06'46" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/318488/4381036 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Atchison East
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT K-697R (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 17349 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 09/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 23.4 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 9,020
Sources
- Robert Elder - bass-tbn [at] ku [dot] edu
- Wikipedia
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
Comments
Amelia Earhart Bridge
Ground has been broken for the new bridge.
http://www.cjonline.com/news/state/2009-07-03/ground_broken_to_replace_bridge
Amelia Earhart Bridge
Here are some pictures i have of the bridge. Hope to go back up there and snap a few better ones before it is replaced or they put up a second bridge. I have been hearing both.
Amelia Earhart Bridge
hey my name is jprdan malm and i would like to leave a comment on this because i dont want them to replace the bridge!!! i like the bridge because it shows people that atchison really does have some history to it. i remeber my dad always talking about it. he always talked about how it made atchison look good for change. so all i am saying is please dont tear down the bridge