Seeger Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Bridge Creek on CR 187
- Location
- Knox County, Missouri
- Status
- Replaced with a concrete bridge
- History
- Built 1911 by the Illinois Steel Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Illinois Steel Bridge Co. of Jacksonville, Illinois (Fabricator)
- Design
- Pin-connected, 5-panel Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 84.0 ft.
Total length: 108.9 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.18455, -91.98671 (decimal degrees)
40°11'04" N, 91°59'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/586261/4448733 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Deer Ridge
- Land survey
- T. 62 N., R. 10 W., Sec. 10
- Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 25
- Inventory numbers
- MO 052-187000.3 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 18479 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21787 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of December 2009)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 22.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- October 24, 2011: Updated by Chris Gonnerman: Bridge has been replaced.
- July 12, 2011: Updated by Chris Gonnerman: Updated status to "closed," noted planned demolition and replacement.
Comments
Given the structural condition of the bridge and the listed ADT, there really is absolutely no reason to replace this bridge. However sometimes counties will claim some farmer needs to get his combine over the bridge and therefore a bridge with enormous deck width costing large amounts of tax dollars is needed. However this bridge appears to be located on an extremely narrow two track dirt road. I doubt a combine would fit on this road, therefore a wide bridge is not needed. For the purpose of saving taxpayer dollars, while also preserving history, I would strongly recommend the county hire a firm experienced with historic bridge restoration and rehab this bridge for continued light vehicular use which would likely cost a fraction of replacing the bridge.
Judging by the road, why would they even want to replace that bridge?
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/knox/18479/
As roads in this area go, it's really not all that bad. Just a half mile north, past the junction, is another matter entirely. I suspect that there is, in fact, rather a lot of farm machinery traffic through here, and the bridge really is rather narrow. Many bridges in Knox county have been replaced with flat concrete spans with low barriers to support farm traffic... this one is just down the list a ways. I'm glad I was able to get a picture when I did. These pictures predate the erection of the "road closed" signs, by the way.