Rating:
3 votes
Menefee Ford Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Lick Creek on Indiana Lane south of Perry
- Location
- Ralls County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Recent Article Jan 2020, in Ralls County Herald Enterprise indicates this bridge is again slated for replacement.
- History
- Built 1911 by Stupp Brothers
- Builder
- - Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
- Design
- Pin-connected, 5-panel Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 85.0 ft.
Total length: 127.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.8 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Indiana Road Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.41152, -91.67897 (decimal degrees)
39°24'41" N, 91°40'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/613781/4363294 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Perry
- Land survey
- T. 53 N., R. 7 W., Sec. 3
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 15
- Inventory numbers
- MO 087-202002.0 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 18869 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22409 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of June 2016)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 21.6 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 21, 2020: Updated by K. Allen Ballard: Bridge is again being slated for replacement by Ralls County Commission
- December 21, 2017: New photos from K. Allen Ballard
- December 27, 2014: Updated by K. Allen Ballard: Bridge is scheduled for replacement, at one time the County was offering it to anyone who would like to relocate it. Don't know if that us still the case or not.
- August 22, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
- October 3, 2009: New photos from James Baughn
Sources
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- K. Allen Ballard - speedeeprint [at] gmail [dot] com
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Contact the County Commission and the County Roads/Highway Department--they can tell you if they would still accept proposals to reuse the bridge.