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Plaque Hurricane Deck Bridge --- Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Project No. 4553 --- Built by Camden County Missouri with the cooperation of Missouri State Highway Commission --- Consulting Engineer Sverdrup and Parcel St. Louis, Mo. Contractors ??? Construction Co. Stupp Bro's Bridge & Iron Co. A.D. 1935 |
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Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered deck truss bridge over Osage Arm, Lake of the Ozarks, on MO 5
- Location
- Camden County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1934-36; rehabilitated 1985
- Builders
- - Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
- Sverdrup and Parcel
- Design
- Warren deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 462.8 ft.
Total length: 2,280.3 ft.
Deck width: 28.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.12542, -92.80416 (decimal degrees)
38°07'32" N, 92°48'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/517165/4219749 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 39 N., R. 17 W., Sec. 16
- USGS topographic map
- Green Bay Terrace
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT K-961R (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 6008 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21069 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 12/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 48.2 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 8,166
Comments
I lived in Camdenton for a few years, worked at Camden County Revielle Newspaper.
I took pictures, wrote a story about the terrible accident on the Hurricane Deck bridge hill.
I just wanted to find any information about that accident.
Can anyone help?
Also, I love these old bridges.
I spent almost 20 years as an engineer officer in the Army and old bridges are fascinating to me.
It's an interesting connection for me; this great old bridge and that terrible accident - I was the 1st reporter on the scene.
Plus, I am a safety consultant now - working with trucking companies and safety programs - if I can even find my old story it would help make a point about brake maintenance for commercial motor vehicles.
I HAVE BEEN CHECKING BACK HERE FOR OVER A YEAR! THANKS FOR THAT INFORMATION.
This is a great and unique bridge for the lake. Although let's just hope it doesn't get tore down and replaced by a concrete eye sore.
Below answer to Sep 07 question is copied from lakehistory dot info. It is a great site full of Lake of the Ozarks trivia, and pictures of the old bridges...
HURRICANE DECK is a nautical term associated with river steamboats. The hurricane deck was the uppermost deck. It provided a pleasant, breezy place to watch the passing scenery.
Steamboats plied the Osage River through much of the nineteenth century. Crewmen on these steamers named many of the prominent landmarks along the way. A certain long, flat ridge along the left (descending) bank of the river caught the attention of the steamboatmen. They came to call it the "hurricane deck" because it afforded quite a view of the river, and the wind always seemed to blow there.
Hurricane Deck ridge runs along the east side of Porter Mill Bend, between mile markers 37 and 38. Lake Road 5-36 follows the crest of the ridge.
PLEASE ANSWER IF YOU CAN. WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME HURRICANE DECK ? THANK YOU.
man. I've been trying to get deck truss bridges to stay up in the simulator tonight and it's rare! BE CARFULL.
I now work just up hwy 5 from this bridge. The work has been completed for this year on the bridge it now has a new deck surface. The guardrails are quite rusted on the sides, but over all the bridge seems in good shape for all the traffic it gets. Its one of the most scenic views on any bridge any were. The design really does allow for a better view than other bridge types.
I have just purchased a sail boat and I'm wondering the clearance height of Hurricane Deck bridge at full 6:60 level....Please, also let me know the new bridge on 54 highway and also the height of the new toll bridge on the Lake of the Ozarks....thanks Jim Franklin