Kansas Website Statistics

All Bridges

Total listed Kansas bridges: 2,268
Bridges with photos: 575 (25.4%)
Bridges with Street View: 392 (17.3%)
Bridges with GPS coordinates: 2,181 (96.2%)
Total photos: 2,390

Extant Bridges

Extant bridges: 1,502 (66.2% of all)
Bridges with photos: 507 (33.8% of extant)
Bridges with Street View: 323 (21.5% of extant)
Bridges with GPS coordinates: 1,430 (95.2% of extant)

Lost Bridges

Lost bridges: 666 (29.4% of all)
Bridges with photos: 58 (8.7% of lost)
Bridges with GPS coordinates: 658 (98.8% of lost)

Oldest Listed Bridges

Wea Creek Bridge (Shawnee County, built 1870, open to pedestrians)
Kansas Avenue Bridge (Shawnee County, built 1870s, replaced by new bridge)
Parker Bridge (Montgomery County, built 1871, removed)
Independence Bowstring (Verdigris River) Bridge (Montgomery County, built 1871, abandoned)
Fort Leavenworth Bridge (Leavenworth County, built 1871, lost)
Austin Bridge (Neosho County, built 1872, open to pedestrians)
Old Jefferson Town Bowstring Bridge (Jefferson County, built 1875, open to pedestrians)
County Line Bowstring Bridge (Cloud County, built 1876, open to traffic)
Little Walnut Creek Bowstring Bridge (Crawford County, built 1880, abandoned)
Columbia Bridge (Franklin County, built 1880, collapsed)

By Design

Arch: 490 (21.6%)
- Deck arch: 408 (18.0%)
  - Brick arch: 2 (0.09%)
  - Closed-spandrel arch: 70 (3.1%)
  - Open-spandrel arch: 9 (0.4%)
  - Steel arch: 1 (0.04%)
  - Stone arch: 221 (9.7%)
- Pony arch: 11 (0.5%)
  - Concrete pony arch: 11 (0.5%)
- Through arch: 52 (2.3%)
  - Concrete through arch: 26 (1.1%)
  - Marsh arch: 21 (0.9%)
  - Steel through arch: 5 (0.2%)
Beam: 187 (8.2%)
- Stringer: 131 (5.8%)
  - Concrete stringer: 11 (0.5%)
  - Steel stringer: 43 (1.9%)
  - Timber stringer: 30 (1.3%)
- Concrete tee beam: 52 (2.3%)
Culvert: 25 (1.1%)
- Concrete culvert: 9 (0.4%)
- Stone culvert: 10 (0.4%)
Rigid frame: 3 (0.1%)
- Concrete rigid frame: 1 (0.04%)
- Steel rigid frame: 2 (0.09%)
Girder: 57 (2.5%)
- Deck girder: 22 (1.0%)
  - Concrete deck girder: 8 (0.4%)
  - Deck plate girder: 13 (0.6%)
- Pony/through girder: 19 (0.8%)
  - Concrete pony/through girder: 2 (0.09%)
  - Pony/through plate girder: 17 (0.7%)
Other: 5 (0.2%)
Slab: 31 (1.4%)
Suspension: 6 (0.3%)
- Cable-stayed: 2 (0.09%)
- Wire suspension: 2 (0.09%)
Truss: 1,425 (62.8%)
- Bedstead pony truss: 20 (0.9%)
  - Bedstead Pratt pony truss: 17 (0.7%)
  - Bedstead Warren pony truss: 2 (0.09%)
- Deck truss: 19 (0.8%)
  - Double-intersection Warren deck truss: 1 (0.04%)
  - Pratt deck truss: 2 (0.09%)
  - Warren deck truss: 7 (0.3%)
- Pony truss: 1,065 (47.0%)
  - Bowstring pony truss: 7 (0.3%)
  - Double-intersection Warren pony truss: 4 (0.2%)
  - Kingpost pony truss: 3 (0.1%)
  - Parker pony truss: 6 (0.3%)
  - Polygonal Warren pony truss: 15 (0.7%)
    - Polygonal Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 1 (0.04%)
  - Pratt pony truss: 52 (2.3%)
  - Half-hip Pratt pony truss: 11 (0.5%)
  - Queenpost pony truss: 8 (0.4%)
  - Warren pony truss: 46 (2.0%)
    - Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 2 (0.09%)
    - Warren pony truss with all verticals: 1 (0.04%)
- Through truss: 320 (14.1%)
  - Baltimore through truss: 8 (0.4%)
  - Bowstring through truss: 6 (0.3%)
  - Camelback through truss: 4 (0.2%)
  - Double-intersection Warren through truss: 2 (0.09%)
  - Howe through truss: 1 (0.04%)
  - Lattice through truss: 9 (0.4%)
    - Quadrangular lattice through truss: 1 (0.04%)
    - Triple-intersection lattice through truss: 7 (0.3%)
  - Parker through truss: 24 (1.1%)
  - Pegram through truss: 2 (0.09%)
  - Pennsylvania through truss: 2 (0.09%)
  - Polygonal Warren through truss: 1 (0.04%)
  - Post through truss: 1 (0.04%)
  - Pratt through truss: 123 (5.4%)
  - Warren through truss: 20 (0.9%)
    - Warren through truss with all verticals: 2 (0.09%)
- Tunnel: 5 (0.2%)
- Unknown: 34 (1.5%)