Old Champ Clark Bridge
Videos
Champ Clark Bridge Eastbound Dashcam Video Eastbound from Illinois into Missouri. Video posted by Tomas C | |
Description
Named for a popular Missouri politician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_ClarkFacts
- Overview
- Five-span through truss bridge over the Mississippi River on US 54 at Louisiana
- Location
- Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri, and Pike County, Illinois
- Status
- Bridge has been completely removed.
- Future prospects
- Ribbon cutting for the new bridge is Saturday, August 3, 2019.
- History
- Bridge demolished 2019
- Builders
- - Harrington, Howard & Ash of Kansas City, Kansas & New York, New York
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas
- Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Design
- Pennsylvania through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 417.0 ft.
Total length: 2,287.2 ft. (0.4 mi.)
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.7 ft.
- Also called
- Louisiana Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.45758, -91.04583 (decimal degrees)
39°27'27" N, 91°02'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/668126/4369379 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Louisiana
- Land survey
- T. 54 N., R. 1 W., Sec. 18
- Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
- 2,838
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT K-932R (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 5996 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
IL 075-9900 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 22317 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of June 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: 21 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- October 22, 2019: New photos from Jeremy Ruble
- October 19, 2019: New photos from Jeremy Ruble
- October 18, 2019: New photo from Jeremy Ruble
- August 5, 2019: Updated by Jeremy Ruble: Updated status
- August 2, 2019: Updated by Jeremy Ruble: Closing August 3rd
- June 7, 2019: New photo from Joe Sonderman
- May 19, 2019: New photos from Joe Sonderman
- September 29, 2018: New photos from Chris Perry
- June 29, 2017: New video from Mark Shannon
- August 13, 2016: New photos from David Huffman
- August 8, 2016: Updated by Jeremy Ruble: Update future of bridge and description
- February 13, 2016: New photo from James Baughn
- May 6, 2015: New video from Tomas C
- January 12, 2014: New photos from Diane Martin
- January 2, 2013: New photo from Steve Conro
- January 5, 2012: Updated by Jeremy Ruble: Added category "Doomed"
- November 16, 2011: New photo from Steve Conro
- October 30, 2011: Updated by Jeremy Ruble: Updated future plans for bridge.
- August 21, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
- May 13, 2008: New photo from Jeremy Ruble
- June 6, 2005: Posted new photos
Related Bridges
- Champ Clark Bridge (Upstream)
Sources
- Brent Freesmeyer - bcfreesmeyer [at] msn [dot] com
- Dick Brown
- Jeremy Ruble - jaruble1982 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Website About Bridge Replacement
- David Huffman
- Mark Shannon
- Chris Perry
- Joe Sonderman
Comments
The span over the railroad tracks on the Missouri side has been removed and the final 2 spans on the Illinois side will be demolished on November 18.
http://www.hannibal.net/Second-implosion-planned-for-Champ-C...
Only two were imploded, not three
Three spans imploded Friday Oct 18, 2019
One less reason to visit Missouri
https://wgem.com/2019/10/18/portion-of-the-old-champ-clark-b...
MoDOT Will Be Blowing This Beautiful Historic Bridge To Bits Within A Couple Hours!
http://www.champclarkbridge.com/index.php/110-old-champ-clar...
Demolition will begin on October 18th.
https://khmoradio.com/date-set-for-demolition-of-old-champ-c...
In 1912 Champ Clark was on his way to becoming the Democratic nominee for president at the Convention being held in Baltimore Maryland. The Eastern newspapers went against him, specifically the Baltimore Sun. The nominee was eventually Woodrow Wilson. And the rest, as they say, is history. I'm glad he had a bridge named for him, he sounds as if he was a very colorful character. who
They're holding a raffle and the winner gets to press the button that implodes the old bridge.
https://wgem.com/2019/10/04/organizations-giving-away-chance...
Preparations for demolition have already begun.
https://www.whig.com/20190927/demolition-begins-on-old-champ...
Old Champ Clark bridge finally closed on August 30 and the deck is already in the process of being removed for demolition in October.
https://www.hannibal.net/news/20190911/preparations-underway...
Update: final closure of Old Champ Clark Bridge has been delayed until sometime next week.
https://www.hannibal.net/news/20190823/old-champ-clark-bridg...
Old Champ Clark bridge to finally close for all traffic on August 22 and deck removal to start soon thereafter.
https://khqa.com/news/local/old-champ-clark-bridge-to-perman...
The Champ Clark Bridge is closed yet again because of flooding on the Illinois side, and the river stage forecast would suggest this could continue for a couple weeks:
https://wgem.com/2019/05/27/champ-clark-bridge-closed-due-to...
Question for anybody in the area: Is it possible to walk out on to the bridge during the closure, or is it locked down because of the active construction work for the replacement bridge?
Scheduled to be replaced by 2019 at a cost of $68.2 million.
First photo of the Champ Clark Bridge was taken after it collapsed on September 6th 1927. One man was killed, one was seriously injured and several narrowly escaped. The collapse of the bridge was due to faulty false work. Second photo of the bridge was taken five days before the bridge collapsed.
Hey Wait just a minute, This Bridge is not doomed I mean Not Doomed. I think that this bridge Will last another 20-25 years. I think about replacing this Bridge now. I know it can't happen anytime soon.
According to MODOT's 2013-2017 Statewide Transportation Improvment Program, they are indeed going to go about getting an Environmental Impact Statement and do a location study for a "potential" design/build project.
I received an old box of scrapbook clippings and photos my grandmother had stored in her attic which contained an interesting ad for toll tickets and a post card sent to her in 1938 of the Champ Clark Bridge.
This is an article out of a local book showing the Champ Clark bridge when it collasped during construction. I believe there was one person killed. This is becuase everybody else was leaving the construction site for the day. Not many people know about this.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/pike/champ-clark/
Final 2 spans were demolished today.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/pictures/final-sect...