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Lit St Francis River Bridge

St. Francois County, Missouri
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Deck View Looking South

Photo taken by John Christeson in February 2010

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Overview
Concrete tee beam bridge over Lit St Francis River on Route OO
Location
St. Francois County, Missouri
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1926; rehabilitated 1974
Design
Concrete tee beam
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 47.2 ft.
Total length: 103.0 ft.
Deck width: 22.6 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.69000, -90.29667   (decimal degrees)
37°41'24" N, 90°17'48" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/738363/4174860 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
Survey #2049 (T. 35 N., R. 7 E.)
USGS topographic map
Knob Lick
Inventory numbers
MONBI 5004 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 44103 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 10/2010)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 63.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
2,410

Categories 

Beam (6,048)
Built 1926 (472)
Built during 1920s (7,033)
Concrete tee beam (1,080)
Functionally obsolete (7,040)
Missouri (4,522)
 Open (28,314)
Owned by state (9,808)
Span length 25-50 feet (10,054)
St. Francois County, Missouri (70)
Total length 100-125 feet (3,633)

Update Log 

  • February 13, 2010: Added by John Christeson

Sources 

  • John Christeson - panamakid_69 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Lit St Francis River Bridge
Posted April 19, 2013, by Carl Belken (cbgbrb [at] gmail [dot] com)

This bridge was located less than half a mile from my boyhood home. Years ago we owned property on both sides of this road on the opposite side of the bridge. Sometime back in the early 1940's my dad sold the property on the right to a fellow by the name of Anderson who built a filling station and store. It was sort of a motel too. They had several cabins they rented overnight. The place was named "The Beacon" It closed sometime in the early 60's.

Back in the 40"s the creek flooded so bad that it got up into the Beacon filling station. To appreciate the amount of water this would have taken you'd have to see the area in person. The beacon actually sits on sort of a bluff of the little St.Francois. I was told the water was going over the top of the bridge. It was the only time that has ever happened even with the huge rain storms we had when I was a kid.