Photos
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View Looking Upstream To Northwest Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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View Looking Downstream To Southwest Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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View Looking Downstream To South Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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North Portal Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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South Portal Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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View Toward South Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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North Abutment Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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South Abutment Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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North Approach Span Looking Southeast Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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Underside Of Bridge Looking North Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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Top Chord Connection Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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North Portal Joint Photo taken August 1989 by Lloyd Grotjan for the Historic American Engineering Record |
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Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss over Femme Osage Creek on Defiance Road just off Route F
- Location
- St. Charles County, Missouri
- Status
- Replaced by a concrete bridge
- History
- Built 1906-1907 by the Joliet Bridge & Iron Co.; replaced 1990
- Builder
- - Joliet Bridge & Iron Co. of Joliet, Illinois
- Design
- Pin-connected, 5-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 100.0 ft.
Total length: 100.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.5 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.63914, -90.80487 (decimal degrees)
38°38'21" N, 90°48'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/691051/4279018 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- Survey #303 (T. 45 N., R. 2 E.)
- USGS topographic map
- Defiance
- Inventory number
- BH 22570 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- HAER MO-57 - Defiance Road Bridge
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com