Rating:
3 votes
Keesler Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Swing through truss bridge over Yazoo River on Grand Blvd. at Greenwood
- Location
- Leflore County, Mississippi
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1925 by the Riley-Bailey Construction Co.
- Builder
- - Riley-Bailey Construction Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
- Design
- Swing Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 145.6 ft.
Total length: 709.1 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1988
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.52178, -90.18422 (decimal degrees)
33°31'18" N, 90°11'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/761520/3712684 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Greenwood
- Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
- 8,500
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 88002489 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 22902 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of January 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 34.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- March 23, 2015: New photo from Irma Hale
- March 20, 2015: New photo from Irma Hale
- April 19, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
- March 21, 2008: New photos from David Backlin
- July 9, 2007: Posted photos from Terry Traver
Related Bridges
- Fulton Street-Yazoo River Swing Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
- Nathan Holth
- Douglas Butler
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