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Quivira Scout Camp Bridge

Chautauqua County, Kansas
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Quivira Scout Bridge

A view as looking back to the West.

Photo taken by Robert

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Description 

This bridge is located over the Big Caney Creek or the Quivira Scout Camp Lake. As you cross the bridge the camp is back to the East and cannot be see from the road. If I recall the history right the bridge was built at the same time the dam to the lake was built.

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Facts 

Overview
Pony truss bridge over North Caney Creek, 7.0 mi. north and 1.0 mi. west of Sedan
Location
Chautauqua County, Kansas
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1909 in Wichita as a five span bridge. Replaced 1963. Three spans were moved to this site in 1965.
Design
Three polygonal Warren pony trusses
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 67.9 ft.
Total length: 211.9 ft.
Deck width: 19.3 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.24173, -96.20747   (decimal degrees)
37°14'30" N, 96°12'27" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/747706/4125343 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Sedan
Inventory numbers
KS 000100941606801 (Kansas local bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 17551 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 11/2011)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 44.7 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
10

Categories 

Built 1909 (475)
Built during 1900s (4,269)
Chautauqua County, Kansas (36)
Kansas (2,289)
Open (28,458)
Owned by county (16,527)
Polygonal Warren pony truss (351)
Polygonal Warren truss (726)
 Pony truss (13,213)
Relocated (367)
Riveted (1,019)
Slab (633)
Span length 50-75 feet (7,012)
Total length 175-250 feet (2,806)
Truss (23,618)
Warren truss (3,959)

Update Log 

  • July 5, 2012: Updated by Robert Elder: Added categories "Relocated", "Riveted"
  • July 15, 2010: New photo from Robert Elder
  • January 21, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Updated multiple categories.
  • October 2, 2009: Added by Robert Elder

Sources 

  • Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Robert - gin-rob [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
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Quivira Scout Camp Bridge
Posted July 5, 2012, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Hi Anonymous:

Thank you for this information. I will update the page accordingly.

Murray Gill Lake Bridge
Posted July 4, 2012, by Anonymous

Reopened 7-2-2012

understand that this is three spans of the five span Griffinstien bridge From Wichita KS. It was on Wiley Street between Central Riverside park and North Riverside Park between 1909 and 1963. moved to present location and opened in 1965.

Murray Gill Lake Bridge
Posted June 27, 2012, by Anonymous

closed on 6-27-2012

Murray Gill Lake Bridge
Posted April 23, 2012, by Dumb, Dumb

I went and looked at this bridge 4-12. The information I got on this bridge was it was moved to this location from wichita when the private lake was built. The gentleman claimed it was moved and set up by an engineering firm to bridge the public road over the private lake. When the job was done it was given to the county. It certainly has the look of being messed with and the cement peer it sets on looks newer than the bridge. The date was suposed to be around 1960.

Murray Gill Lake Bridge
Posted July 11, 2010, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

This bridge has been confirmed extant. I photographed this bridge on 10 July 2010. This bridge does not appear in recent NBI listings, and it appears to be a UCEB in aerial views. Thus, it had been previously declared lost.

Photographs to come...

Murray Gill Lake Bridge
Posted January 21, 2010, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

It appears that this lost bridge has come back! Apparently, we have witnessed another amazing example of the re-appearance of a Kansas Bridge.

Source: http://ke2013.smugmug.com/keyword/bridge#272166972_BtL5j

Bridge # 0941
Posted October 2, 2009, by Robert Elder (bass-tbn [at] ku [dot] edu)

This bridge likely carried road 19 across Tanglewood Lake on the North Caney Creek. Information for this bridge was taken from kansasgis.org. This bridge is almost certainly lost.