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Liberty Memorial Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost three-span through truss bridge over Missouri River on I-94 Business Loop in Bismarck
- Location
- Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, and Morton County, North Dakota
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1922; rehabilitated 1991; Demolished 2008
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Claude Allen Porter Turner of Lincoln, Rhode Island
- Foundation Co. of New York
- Design
- Warren-Turner through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 479.0 ft.
Total length: 2,550.0 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 26.6 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.7 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on March 11, 1997
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +46.80802, -100.81894 (decimal degrees)
46°48'29" N, 100°49'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/361221/5185436 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Bismarck
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 97000172 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
ND 94-920-914 (North Dakota bridge number)
BH 23409 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 03/2008)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 51.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
- 14,700
Update Log
- March 17, 2017: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- November 14, 2016: New photo from Dave King
- October 7, 2008: Updated by David Backlin: Bridge demolished 10-06-2008
- May 12, 2008: New photos from Historic American Engineering Record
Sources
- HAER ND-7 - Liberty Memorial Bridge, Spanning Missouri River at I-94, Bismarck, Burleigh County, ND
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Historic American Engineering Record
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
- Liberty Memorical Bridge - Project Information Page
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
© Copyright 2002-17, James Baughn and contributors.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/nd/burleigh/liberty/
I've been browsing this site and just found this page. I looked at the link posted below, and apparently the bridge is now closed, to allow construction of the new one to continue. Here's the site again:
http://www.memorialbridge.info/