Jefferson City Bridge (1955)
Videos
1955 Jefferson City Mo River Bridge Construction Posted to YouTube by J Dub | |
Driving over the Jefferson City Bridge 2004 and 2014 A Bridgehunter.com exclusive! Here's video of me crossing both the Southbound and Northbound sections of The Jefferson City Bridge in Jefferson City. The Southbound lanes were recorded in 2004 in SD and don't look all that great, but the Northbound lanes were recorded in 2014 in HD and looks absolutely fantastic! Video posted by Mark Shannon |
Facts
- Overview
- Pair of steel through arch bridges over the Missouri River at Jefferson City on US 54/63 in Jefferson City
- Location
- Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri, and Callaway County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic on a multi-lane freeway
- History
- Original southbound bridge opened August 1955; new northbound bridge added 1991
- Builders
- - Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
- Sverdrup & Parcel of St. Louis, Missouri (Designer)
- Design
- Steel through arch. 1953 bridge designed by Sverdrup and Parcel of St. Louis Missouri and fabricated by Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Company
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 595.6 ft.
Total length: 3,124.2 ft. (0.6 mi.)
Deck width: 46.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.58767, -92.17880 (decimal degrees)
38°35'16" N, 92°10'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/571520/4271341 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Jefferson City
- Land survey
- T. 44 N., R. 11 W., Sec. 7
- Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
- 28,799
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT L-550R2 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 6345 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21322 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 37.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- June 30, 2019: New photos from Joe Sonderman
- June 25, 2019: New photos from Joe Sonderman
- June 11, 2019: New photos from Joe Sonderman
- May 20, 2019: New photos from Joe Sonderman
- August 14, 2018: New photo from James Baughn
- November 9, 2014: New video from Mark Shannon
- October 4, 2013: New video
- May 30, 2013: New photos from M. D. Caillet
- October 8, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
- May 23, 2011: New photo from James Baughn
- March 15, 2011: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added Builder Per Shop Plans
- March 16, 2010: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added Sverdrup and Parcel engineers to bridge design description.
- April 27, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
- April 25, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
- August 6, 2005: Posted additional photos
Related Bridges
- Jefferson City Bridge (1896) (Predecessor)
Sources
- Nathan Holth
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Mark Shannon
- Joe Sonderman
- Engineering News-Record 1957-02-07: Vol 158 Iss 6 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Comments
They have completed the bike lane on bridge on the north bound lane. It now a quick and safe trip from the Katy trail across the Missouri River to Jefferson City without having to dodge cars and trucks.
This is the bridge that is featured in the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis movie "Hollywood or Bust". After they cross the Mississippi into Missouri at St. Louis on the Hwy. 40 bridge, the film continues with a shot of them going across the Missouri River on this bridge (the 1st one) at Jefferson City, Missouri.
Jefferson City Bridge Southbound Span
You put it in us 64 instead of us 63 category please correct it.
Thank you,
David B. Haun
Add category US 63 to Jefferson City Bridge.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/cole/jefferson-city/
This video came to me in a MoDot Email. It shows a video of the original, 1955 bridge being built. It is about 40 minutes, but worth it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N3woUdiG6A