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Miami County Bridge No. 17

Miami County, Kansas
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Facts 

Overview
Lost Parker through truss bridge
Location
Miami County, Kansas
Status
Lost
Design
Eight panel, pin-connected Parker through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.66776, -94.91739   (decimal degrees)
38°40'04" N, 94°55'03" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/333189/4281653 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Antioch
Inventory number
BH 44884 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Inundated (19)
Kansas (2,289)
Miami County, Kansas (67)
Parker through truss (954)
Parker truss (1,273)
Through truss (9,250)
Truss (23,609)

Update Log 

  • December 25, 2012: Updated by Chris Knight: Moved the Pin to the Approx Location of the Bridge. This one may still be there as it is in a deeper part of the lake from the others. About 40 feet deep here.
  • April 15, 2010: Added by Robert Elder

Sources 

  • Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Miami County Bridge No. 17
Posted April 15, 2010, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Nathan:

That is actually a possibility. I am assuming they are lost as I have not seen any of them poking out of the water on Google Earth - though they could be submerged completely.

Of course, a truss with no floor is sometimes impossible to see on Google Earth.

Miami County Bridge No. 17
Posted April 15, 2010, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Are we sure these bridges were actually removed? Sometimes they just left the bridges in place and they remain underwater in the reservoir.

Miami County Bridge No. 17
Posted April 15, 2010, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

This bridge would have been inundated by Hillsdale Reservoir. Thus we can consider the bridge to be lost.

KSHS page with photograph:

http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?tab=details&in=121-0000-00214&startrow=1&sort=historic_name&revision=1