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Cowan Bridge

Cedar County, Missouri

Photos 

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Photo taken July 2005 by Bob Estes

BH Photo #104740

Map 

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Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Sac River on CR 400
Location
Cedar County, Missouri
Status
Open to one-lane traffic
History
Built 1919 by the Pioneer Construction Co.
Builder
- Pioneer Construction Co. of Malvern, Arkansas
Design
Parker through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 145.0 ft.
Total length: 405.0 ft.
Deck width: 12.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.8 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Metcalf Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.83581, -93.83326   (decimal degrees)
37°50'09" N, 93°49'60" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/426678/4187925 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Caplinger Mills
Land survey
T. 35 N., R. 26 W., Sec. 16
Inventory numbers
MONBI 14464 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MO 020-068000.8 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MO 020-095000.1 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
BH 21203 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 06/2015)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 16.2 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
25

Categories 

8-panel truss (349)
Built 1919 (461)
Built during 1910s (8,748)
Cedar County, Missouri (33)
Missouri (5,935)
NR-eligible (3,971)
One-lane traffic (7,421)
Open (36,534)
Owned by county (18,847)
 Parker through truss (1,165)
Parker truss (1,519)
Pin-connected (3,208)
Pioneer Construction Co. (25)
Span length 125-175 feet (3,767)
Structurally deficient (18,414)
Through truss (12,895)
Total length 250-500 feet (4,599)
Truss (29,437)

Update Log 

  • August 25, 2013: Updated by James Baughn: Merged duplicate pages
  • January 29, 2013: New photos from Karen Daniels
  • August 31, 2011: New photos from Jason Smith
  • August 18, 2011: New photos from James Baughn
  • March 7, 2010: New photos from Ruth Reynolds
  • July 29, 2005: Posted photos from Bob Estes

Sources 

  • Bob Estes - bestes2000 [at] qwest [dot] net
  • Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
  • Ruth Reynolds - ruthmusic [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
  • Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
  • Karen Daniels
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Cowan Bridge
Posted February 13, 2016, by Dino Strunk

I just viewed this bridge yesterday (2/12/2016). This bridge is now closed.

Cowan Bridge
Posted February 3, 2014, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

I don't know because I don't post often to this website, but in my work on HistoricBridges.org sometimes when I am working with my photos I find that photos are not rotated properly. I discovered this is because some cameras embed code to tell programs to rotate a photo (different from actually rotating a photo in an editor). Its called an EXIF code, and it defines a rotation. It is a HUGE pain in the butt because some programs recognize it and others don't. For example, the built-in windows viewer does not but Google Picasa does. Worse, sometimes the camera records it wrong. I downloaded a program that automatically wipes the EXIF rotation, which has been working for me.

Cowan Bridge
Posted February 2, 2014, by Bridgeman Bob (bobsclark [at] gmail [dot] com)

Lame when somebody posts a bunch of pics here and can't even bother to orientate them properly!