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Facts
- Overview
- Lost three-span through truss bridge over Castor River and single pony truss over Cape Creek on MO 72 between Fredericktown and Patton
- Location
- Madison County, Missouri
- Status
- Two spans removed in Summer 2007
- History
- Built 1923; rehabilitated 1933
- Design
- Castor River spans: Three 5-panel Pratt through trusses
Cape Creek span: One 7-panel Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.0 ft.
Total length: 307.0 ft.
Deck width: 22.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.52850, -90.16957 (decimal degrees)
37°31'43" N, 90°10'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/750113/4157268 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 33 N., R. 8 E., Sec. 28
- USGS topographic map
- Higdon
- Inventory number
- BH 21964 (Bridgehunter.com ID)