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Brush Creek Bridge (Old highway N)
Description
Don't believe this is a 2nd listing of this bridge, didn't spot another for Platte County...this is in a beautiful neighborhood with new and not so new large ranch houses on a dead end road just past bridge, would love to know more about the bridge's history, have driven past this one close to KCI Airport for decadesFacts
- Overview
- Timber stringer bridge over Brush Creek on NW 76th St. (Old highway N)
- Location
- Parkville, Platte County, Missouri
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic, disintegrating
- History
- Built 1949 (reconstructed 1976)
- Design
- Timber stringer, paved but falling apart, many holes and iron plates covering crumbling pieces
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 39.0 ft.
Total length: 99.1 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- NW 76th St. Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.23760, -94.75555 (decimal degrees)
39°14'15" N, 94°45'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/348488/4344611 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 51 N., R. 34 W., Sec. 18
- Elevation
- 780 ft. above sea level
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 5
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 19488 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 87701 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of April 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 17 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Sources
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
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This is a 1949 alignment of Missouri N.