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Sauk Rapids Bridge

Benton County, Minnesota

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Sauk Rapids Bridge

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Photo taken by Wikimedia Commons user Daveswagon in August 2006

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #470971

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Howe deck truss bridge over Mississippi River on 9th Avenue North
Location
Sauk Rapids, Benton County, Minnesota
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1942; closed 2007 after I-35W Bridge collapse; demolished & replaced by UCEB 2008
Design
Arched Howe deck truss bridge
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 175.0 ft.
Total length: 565.0 ft.
Deck width: 38.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+45.58830, -94.17027   (decimal degrees)
45°35'18" N, 94°10'13" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/408713/5048972 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 89117 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arch (12,100)
Benton County, Minnesota (11)
Built 1942 (257)
Built during 1940s (4,093)
Deck arch (11,339)
Deck truss (1,731)
Demolished (16)
Howe deck truss (54)
Howe truss (558)
Lost (24,733)
Lost 2008 (348)
Lost during 2000s (4,185)
 Minnesota (1,518)
Mississippi River (219)
Owned by state (15,986)
Replaced (12)
Replaced by UCEB (74)
Replaced by new bridge (16,577)
Riveted (2,165)
Sauk Rapids, Minnesota (1)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,987)
Steel arch (376)
Total length 500-1000 feet (2,871)
Truss (32,784)

Update Log 

  • April 25, 2020: New photo from Nick Boppel

Sources 

  • Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com

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