Rating:
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Beaver Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Two-span pony truss bridge over Spencer Creek on Beaver Road (Old US 61) northwest of Frankford
- Location
- Ralls County, Missouri
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1925
- Builder
- - Louis Rich Construction Co. (Contractor)
- Design
- Riveted Warren pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 269.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.51565, -91.35401 (decimal degrees)
39°30'56" N, 91°21'14" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/641552/4375223 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hannibal SE
- Land survey
- T. 55 N., R. 4 W., Sec. 28
- Average daily traffic (as of 2012)
- 30
- Inventory numbers
- MO 087-094002.1 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 15462 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MO 087-089001.0 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
BH 22404 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of June 2012)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 31.9 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- October 1, 2018: New photo from Jeremy Ruble
- August 18, 2011: Updated by Ben Tate: Bridge is closed
Sources
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Jeremy Ruble - saukee0 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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The southern side abutment just upstream from this bridge is actually the remains of the former St. Louis & Hannibal RR trestle which was abandoned in 1944. Just south of this abutment is the stop/'town' of Jones.