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Blecha Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Two-span concrete arch bridge over Cave Springs Branch on Blecha Road at the Oklahoma line
- Location
- McDonald County, Missouri, and Delaware County, Oklahoma
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1914
- Design
- Two closed-spandrel concrete arches
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 28.9 ft.
Total length: 61.0 ft.
Deck width: 22.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.54741, -94.61787 (decimal degrees)
36°32'51" N, 94°37'04" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/355193/4045884 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- South West City
- Land survey
- T. 21 N., R. 34 W., Sec. 21
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 21564 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MO 060-311003.1 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
BH 42835 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 02/2016)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 64.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 500
Update Log
- October 7, 2011: New photos from Gene McCluney
- September 15, 2010: New photos from David Backlin
- April 22, 2010: Updated by David Backlin: Added USGS quadrant
- June 21, 2009: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
- Gene McCluney - gmacfilm [at] live [dot] com
© Copyright 2002-17, James Baughn and contributors.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/mcdonald/21564/
I visited this bridge on 12 September 2010. The west side of the bridge appears to have been reconstructed as the concrete wall appears to be of a different design. Also, the arches on the west side are square, as opposed to round.
My guess is the bridge was rebuilt after an accident or possibly widened to accommodate modern vehicles.