Fairfax Bridge
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Overall view The Fairfax and Platte Purchase Bridges in 2007 |
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Photo taken by Mark Frazier |
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over the Missouri River on Southbound US 69 in Kansas City
- Status
- Open to southbound traffic
- History
- Built 1935; rehabilitated 1979
- Builders
- - Kansas City Bridge Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
- Sverdrup & Parcel (Design)
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 474.0 ft.
Total length: 2,594.4 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.2 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.15833, -94.62333 (decimal degrees)
39°09'30" N, 94°37'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/359742/4335602 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 50 N., R. 33 W., Sec. 8
- USGS topographic map
- North Kansas City
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 5821 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MoDOT K-456R (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 22346 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 02/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 49.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 7,780
Update Log
- April 30, 2008: New photo from Max Johnson
- February 28, 2008: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited "Design"
Sources
- Mark Frazier - mfrazier [at] kc [dot] rr [dot] com
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
Comments
Fairfax Bridge
Press photo from May 2, 1939. Men searching for a man associated with the Pendergast organiztion who they believed committed suicide by jumping from the bridge when faced with Federal income tax evasion charges.
Webmaster's note: The photo that was here has been incorporated into the main site.