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Grand River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Whipple through truss bridge over Grand River on 137th Street
- Location
- Daviess County, Missouri
- Status
- Abandoned with deck partially missing
- History
- Built 1883 by the Kansas City Bridge & Iron Co.; closed to traffic in the 1990s. Road originally called number 5 and ran between Pattonsburg and Santa Rosa Missouri. Highway 69, built in 1932 paralleled this road and bridge just 1 mile east
- Builders
- - Carnegie Steel Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Kansas City Bridge & Iron Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
- Design
- From north to south:
One pin-connected, 3-panel Pratt pony truss
One pin-connected, 11-panel, wrought iron Whipple through truss
One pin-connected Pratt through truss - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 180.1 ft.
Total length: 331.1 ft.
Deck width: 11.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.6 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Old Road number 5 bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.02140, -94.13266 (decimal degrees)
40°01'17" N, 94°07'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/403345/4430746 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- McFall
- Land survey
- T. 60 N., R. 29 W., Sec. 10
- Inventory numbers
- MO 031-317000.8 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
BH 42709 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 8, 2011: New photos from Jason Smith
- May 5, 2010: New photos from James Baughn
- June 4, 2009: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
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Okay, I know that all of you are probably staring at the incredible Whipple truss...
But, I was looking at the pony span, and I was paying special attention to the outriggers. I cannot tell for sure if they are cruciform or not. If, and this is a big if, but if they are cruciform, then perhaps the Kansas City Bridge & Iron Co. might be another company that used cruciform outriggers. This would not be too much of a surprise given that cruciform iron was readily available at one time and the related Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Works used it.
This is a highly significant bridge on many levels.