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Bonner Springs Bridge

Wyandotte County, Kansas, and Johnson County, Kansas

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Description 

Bonds authorized 1891 for maximum $5000 to build a pontoon bridge. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZRCxAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA115&ots=...

Not shown on 1894 topo.

Description of loss: http://history.nekls.org/bonner_springs/topics/show/83-the-1...

Location based on 1934 map showing presumed replacement.

Removed some time between 1950 and 1966 with the realignment of Highway K-7.

Facts 

Overview
Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Kansas River
Location
Bonner Springs, Wyandotte County, Kansas, and Johnson County, Kansas
Status
Destroyed by flooding
History
Built 1898; Lost in the flood of 1903
Design
Pontoon
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.05494, -94.87906   (decimal degrees)
39°03'18" N, 94°52'45" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/337408/4324553 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Bonner Springs
Land survey
T. 11 S., R. 23 E., Sec. 32
Inventory number
BH 56369 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,567)
Bonner Springs, Kansas (4)
Built 1898 (304)
Built during 1890s (2,982)
Destroyed by flood (468)
Floating (36)
Johnson County, Kansas (47)
 Kansas (3,192)
Lost (24,747)
Lost 1903 (46)
Lost during 1900s (315)
Pontoon (37)
Wyandotte County, Kansas (49)

Update Log 

  • November 11, 2015: Updated by Luke: Build date
  • May 27, 2013: Added by Clark Vance

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Bonner Springs Bridge
Posted July 23, 2015, by Danny Parker (barnamus1966 [at] aol [dot] com)

I was recently searching a new website I found called Historic Aerials . com, and done a screen grab from a 1959 aerial of the Bonner Springs bridge, thought I would share.