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Old Route 66 Little Beaver Creek Bridge

Phelps County, Missouri

Photos 

Overview

Looking Northward

Photo taken by James McCray

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BH Photo #198484

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Old Route 66 Little Beaver Creek Bridge

Old Route 66 Little Beaver Creek Bridge

Mark W. Shannon

Description 

This bridge is on a section of Route 66 that was bypassed early enough that it was not modernized, so the bridge and the road to it are still in nearly original configuration. Sometime in the last 40 years the road got a blacktop wearing surface but it has not been widened and the original curbs are still visible. There are still remains of tourist cabins and other buildings from the early days of US 66.

Mentioned as the site of numerous auto wrecks in early days: http://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/ozarkswatch/ow702n...

Facts 

Overview
Slab bridge over Little Beaver Creek on CR 7100
Location
Phelps County, Missouri
Status
Closed for Replacement
History
Built 1926
Design
Slab
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 20.0 ft.
Total length: 66.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.93250, -91.83833   (decimal degrees)
37°55'57" N, 91°50'18" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/602086/4198962 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Rolla
Land survey
T. 37 N., R. 8 W., Sec. 17
Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
220
Inventory numbers
MONBI 20286 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 48475 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of January 2018)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 49.7 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Built 1926 (785)
Built during 1920s (9,923)
Closed (2,666)
Doomed (1,074)
Have street view (26,947)
Lost 2021 (7)
Lost during 2020s (107)
Missouri (6,302)
 One-lane traffic (7,606)
Owned by county (20,783)
Phelps County, Missouri (26)
Slab (2,064)
Span length under 25 feet (6,894)
Total length 50-75 feet (9,299)
US 66 (300)

Update Log 

  • January 16, 2021: Updated by David Backlin: Closed for Replacement
  • June 19, 2016: New video from Mark Shannon
  • June 19, 2016: New photos from Clark Vance
  • May 17, 2016: New photos from Steve Conro
  • July 20, 2012: Updated by Clark Vance: Added context description
  • May 1, 2011: New photos from James McCray
  • March 22, 2011: Added by James McCray

Sources 

  • James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
  • Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Mark Shannon
  • David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net

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