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Pryor Road Cedar Creek Bridge

Jackson County, Missouri
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Before demolition

Photo courtesy City of Lee's Summit, MO

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Description 

This bridge and two nearby culverts on Longview road were destroyed when the city realigned the intersection of Longview Road and Pryor. These roads have gone from rural to suburban over the last 25 years. The bridge had been closed to traffic for some years before it was replaced. An engineering report suggests that the bridge and culverts were built ca. 1870.

Facts 

Overview
Lost pony truss bridge over Cedar Creek on Pryor Road in Lee's Summit
Location
Lee's Summit, Jackson County, Missouri
Status
replaced by a new bridge
History
Evidence suggests that this was built around 1870
Design
Pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 37.0 ft.
Total length: 127.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.90645, -94.41404   (decimal degrees)
38°54'23" N, 94°24'51" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/377392/4307345 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 47 N., R. 31 W., Sec. 7
USGS topographic map
Lees Summit
Inventory numbers
MO 048-243502.3 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 20025 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21709 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2007)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 22.7 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
250

Categories 

19th Century (3,854)
Built during 1870s (547)
Jackson County, Missouri (161)
Lee's Summit, Missouri (4)
Lost (10,499)
Missouri (4,536)
One-lane traffic (7,119)
Owned by city (3,091)
 Pony truss (13,213)
Replaced by new bridge (7,224)
Span length 25-50 feet (10,104)
Structurally deficient (16,730)
Total length 125-175 feet (4,156)
Truss (23,618)
Wooden deck (5,415)

Update Log 

  • August 28, 2012: New photos from Clark Vance
  • November 2, 2010: Updated by Clark Vance: Added photo
  • September 12, 2010: Updated by Clark Vance: Adding information from engineering report done prior to demolition.
  • February 17, 2010: Updated by Joshua Collins: updated creek name
  • November 8, 2009: Updated by Joshua Collins: status, overview

Sources 

  • Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
  • Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
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Pryor Road Cedar Creek Bridge
Posted December 16, 2010, by Scott Lowe (dayoffguy [at] aol [dot] com)

Friend of mine in school lived on Sunset just NE of the old Pryor road bridge.

Traveled over this bridge many times. This was the old back road to Longview and 150 hwy.

The photo is the way i rem the old bridge.

Pryor Road Bridge
Posted December 17, 2007, by jim mccoy (jmccoy22 [at] kc [dot] rr [dot] com)

the swinging bridge you are talking about still exists. It is in the swope park zoo.

Pryor Road Bridge
Posted June 3, 2006, by Helen Patton Gray (hgray [at] arczip [dot] com)

I'm searching for information on an old bridge in Swope Park. I believe it spans a part of the Blue River. In the 1940's it was known as a "swinging bridge" and was part of the trail used to walk from the end of the streetcar line to the lagoon and swimming pool in the park.

I see nothing that sounds like it in this Historic Bridges of the Midwest website. Would appreciate any information on it. As I recall, it was only about 10 to 12 feet wide, steel construction with wooden deck. Warnings were posted not to swing it...but when five or six people "marched" on it in step with one another, it did swing.