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Laflin Bridge

Bollinger County, Missouri
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Photo taken by James Baughn

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Overview
Lost through truss bridge over Crooked Creek southwest of Laflin on CR 408, just beyond the end of Route U
Location
Bollinger County, Missouri
Status
Demolished to make way for replacement bridge
History
Built 1908 by Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co.; closed to traffic Dec. 15, 2003; main span demolished Apr. 13, 2005; replacement bridge opened Jan. 2006
Builder
- Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
Design
Pin-connected, 7-panel Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 120.0 ft.
Total length: 285.0 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.27169, -89.89255   (decimal degrees)
37°16'18" N, 89°53'33" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/243521/4128935 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 30 N., R. 10 E., Sec. 13
USGS topographic map
Marble Hill
Inventory numbers
MO 009-124002.4 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 16555 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 20883 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 12/2003)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
50

Categories 

7-panel truss (247)
A-frame portal (232)
Bollinger County, Missouri (41)
Built 1908 (421)
Built during 1900s (4,247)
Have diagram (35)
Lally columns (90)
Lost (10,370)
Missouri (4,522)
Owned by county (16,490)
Pin-connected (1,521)
 Pratt through truss (3,166)
Pratt truss (5,660)
Replaced by new bridge (7,139)
Span length 100-125 feet (3,300)
Structurally deficient (16,682)
Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. (60)
Sufficiency rating zero (308)
Through truss (9,210)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,371)
Truss (23,574)
Wooden deck (5,398)

Update Log 

  • June 5, 2006: Posted photo of replacement bridge

Sources 

  • Marble Hill Banner Press - various issues
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Laflin Bridge
Posted November 22, 2011, by Andrew Green (Agreen719 [at] gmail [dot] com)

My Granpa Ervin Arnzen used to take us here as kids to go swimming. I did not know they had demolished the bridge it was scary but full of memories.

Laflin Bridge
Posted November 15, 2006, by Jerry Upchurch (upchurjw [at] bp [dot] com)

This was a very scary bridge to cross with farm eqp when you were only about 12 or 13 years old.

Laflin Bridge
Posted December 14, 2005, by jj (smurfblue3 [at] excite [dot] com)

me and my freind martin arzen use to cross this thing every tuesday night to go to leopold it was on of the funnest brides to cross when we started driving.