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Sandy Creek Covered Bridge

Jefferson County, Missouri
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Photo taken by James Baughn

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Overview
Covered bridge over Sandy Creek on Lemay Ferry Road north of Hillsboro
Location
Jefferson County, Missouri
Status
Open to pedestrians only
Future prospects
Preserved
History
Built 1872 by the House Springs, Big River Valley Macadamized and Gravel Road Co. at a cost of $2,000
Design
6-panel Howe through truss
Dimensions
Span length: 76.0 ft.
Total length: 76.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.5 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1970
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.29406, -90.52637   (decimal degrees)
38°17'39" N, 90°31'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/716324/4241336 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Belew Creek
Inventory numbers
WGCB 25-50-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 70000337 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 21769 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,854)
Built 1872 (42)
Built during 1870s (547)
Covered (927)
Howe through truss (203)
Howe truss (249)
Jefferson County, Missouri (46)
 Missouri (4,536)
NR-listed (2,355)
Open to pedestrians (1,959)
Preserved (662)
Through truss (9,256)
Total length 75-100 feet (4,813)
Truss (23,618)

Update Log 

  • January 31, 2010: New photo from Robert Stephenson
  • November 9, 2005: Revamped page, posted photo from Keith Stiern

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Sandy Creek Covered Bridge
Posted August 24, 2009, by Sharon Spear (sweetsexysharon [at] gmail [dot] com)

I was reading an article in the August 20, 2009 Arnold-Imperial Leader newspaper about DNR proposed plans for the bridge and the surrounding park area. I can't post a link to the article because the newspaper doesn't have an online edition. But the article did provide a link to the DNR website and the proposed plans.

http://mostateparks.com/mastodon/plans.htm

The third section is about the bridge. There are plans to create an engineered swale to divert flood waters away from the bridge.

Comments can be emailed to the DNR through August 24, 2009. There's a link to the email in the first paragraph of the article.

My apologies for such short notice on this. I just got around to reading the paper this morning.

Sandy Creek Covered Bridge
Posted October 30, 2006, by brad siegmund (spas121950 [at] msn [dot] com)

Wonderful,but what are all those trees on the north side surrounding the info kiosk?

They have large prominent seed pods(6-10 inches) Thanks.