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Red River Suspension Bridge

Jefferson County, Oklahoma, and Montague County, Texas

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Overview
Lost Wire suspension bridge over Red River on Burned Out Bridge Road
Location
Jefferson County, Oklahoma, and Montague County, Texas
Status
Removed but not replaced; Tower remains
History
Built 1924; Burned ca 1955
Builder
- Austin Brothers Bridge Co. of Dallas, Texas/Atlanta, Georgia [also known as Austin Bridge Co.]
Design
Wire/cable suspension
Dimensions
Total length: 700.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
Also called
Nocona Suspension Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+33.93592, -97.75861   (decimal degrees)
33°56'09" N, 97°45'31" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/614729/3755744 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Fleetwood
Inventory number
BH 70626 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Austin Bridge Co. (41)
Austin Brothers Bridge Co. (26)
Built 1924 (781)
Built during 1920s (10,328)
Jefferson County, Oklahoma (24)
Lost (30,025)
Lost 1955 (137)
Lost during 1950s (1,010)
 Montague County, Texas (43)
Oklahoma (2,035)
Red River of the South (52)
State line crossing (933)
Suspension (809)
Texas (3,077)
Total length 500-1000 feet (3,134)

Update Log 

  • January 23, 2016: Added by Dave King

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Nocona Suspension Bridge, Red River
Posted December 12, 2021, by Tony King (tonyk [at] mediastampede [dot] com)

An online Oklahoma history site quotes an April 16, 1948 'Waurika News-Democrat' article reporting that the bridge burned on "Thursday of last week," which would seem to indicate April 8, 1948 as the date of the Nocona bridge's demise.

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