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Arkansas River Bridge

Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Photos 

Old Hwy 16

Photo taken by Gene McCluney in March 2007

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BH Photo #129155

Map 

Street Views 

Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Arkansas River on old alignment of OK 16 in Muskogee
Location
Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma
Status
Closed to all traffic
History
Built 1922; abandoned circa 1980
Builder
- Vincennes Bridge Co. of Vincennes, Indiana
Design
The bridge consists of one 100' Parker pony approach span, and four 210' riveted through Parker spans.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 210.0 ft.
Total length: 940.0 ft.
Also called
Old OK 16 (Jefferson Highway) Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.79342, -95.33336   (decimal degrees)
35°47'36" N, 95°20'00" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/289134/3963548 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Northeast Muskogee
Elevation
490 ft. above sea level
Inventory number
BH 38290 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arkansas River (130)
Built 1922 (756)
Built during 1920s (10,472)
Closed (2,797)
Have street view (30,587)
Jefferson Highway (50)
Muskogee County, Oklahoma (71)
Muskogee, Oklahoma (7)
 Oklahoma (2,050)
Parker through truss (1,456)
Parker truss (1,855)
Span length 175-250 feet (2,139)
Through truss (19,311)
Total length 500-1000 feet (3,220)
Truss (38,697)
Vincennes Bridge Co. (129)

Update Log 

  • August 19, 2010: New Street View added by Matthew Lohry
  • May 27, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson
  • April 23, 2009: New photo from Nathan Morton
  • March 29, 2009: Updated by Curtis Lee: added additional history and description info
  • December 11, 2008: Updated by Rick Mattioni: Fixed typos.
  • December 4, 2008: Added by Gene McCluney

Sources 

  • Gene McCluney - gmacfilm [at] live [dot] com
  • Rick Mattioni
  • Curtis A. Lee - leefam408 [at] outlook [dot] com
  • Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Matt Lohry
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Comments 

Arkansas River Bridge
Posted April 30, 2021, by Darrell W Powers jr (Systemofadown311 [at] outlook [dot] com)

4-30-21

Arkansas River Bridge
Posted December 1, 2010, by Tony Robison (trobison [at] entzhuffman [dot] com)

I remember going over this bridge with my parents when I was a kid. It seems like they closed it in about 1980. It is so narrow, I remember our mirrors smacking other cars mirrors sometimes when crossing it. Tony Robison