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22823
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MO YY Middle Fork Grand River Bridge
Photos
View from the SouthWest
Photo taken by Paul Hamby in November 2010
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BH Photo #186130
Essay
Written by Eric Kinkhorst
Highway YY was once US 169
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Middle Fork Grand River on Route YY (formerly MO 29)
- Location
- Worth County, Missouri
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- Future prospects
- Scheduled for replacement 2021
- History
- Built 1927; closed September 2018 after failing inspection
- Builder
- - Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. of Des Moines, Iowa & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (contractor)
- Design
- Riveted Warren pony truss with alternating verticals
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 70.8 ft.
Total length: 320.7 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.41542, -94.44378 (decimal degrees)
40°24'56" N, 94°26'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/377507/4474867 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Grant City
- Land survey
- T. 65 N., R. 32 W., Sec. 25
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 185
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT H-617 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 5063 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22823 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of September 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 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
Update Log
- August 1, 2020: New photo from Neil Krout
- October 28, 2018: Updated by David Backlin: Closed
- October 28, 2011: Essay added by Eric Kinkhorst
- November 13, 2010: New photo from Paul Hamby