Photos
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View from southeast |
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East portal |
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West portal |
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View from southwest |
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Deck view |
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Close-up of guardrail |
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Upper chord hip joint |
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Lower chord joint |
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Pier from above |
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Underneath |
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Missing plaque |
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Warning signs |
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Hinkson Creek on Green Valley Road in Columbia
- Location
- Columbia, Boone County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to one-lane traffic with a 3 ton weight limit
- History
- Built 1906 over the Lamine River in Cooper County by the Kansas City Bridge Co.; relocated here in 1938
- Builders
- - Everett Stone (Relocation contractor)
- Kansas City Bridge Co. of Kansas City, Missouri (Original construction)
- Design
- Pin-connected, 9-panel Parker through truss with concrete deck
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 170.9 ft.
Total length: 174.8 ft.
Deck width: 13.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.94790, -92.30673 (decimal degrees)
38°56'52" N, 92°18'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/560076/4311223 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 48 N., R. 12 W., Sec. 18
- USGS topographic map
- Columbia
- Inventory numbers
- MO 010-093000.7 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 15411 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 20902 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 05/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 23.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
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Update Log
- May 1, 2008: Updated by David B. Haun: Updated categories
- April 25, 2005: Posted new photos
Sources
- David B. Haun - dbhaun [at] gmail [dot] com
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
Comments
The bridge is the the first iron bridge I have ever walked across. I can remember when I was about seven when my parents and my great-grandparents took me down to this bridge and then my dad picked me up and stood me on the railing. It was quite scary. To this day it is a favorite hobby of mine to walk across bridges, especially antique ones. I have walked across the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC, walked across the famous drawbridges across the Chicago River in Chicago, walked across Chain of Rocks 66 Bridge in St. Louis, the Seven Mile Bridge in Key West, Fl, some covered bridges in Alabama and South Carolina, the 2nd Street Bridge in Louisville, Ky, and numerous other old bridges. The Green Valley Bridge in Columbia, Mo is my favorite though because it reminds me of when I would visit my grandparents every summer in Columbia, MO.