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Bridge Street-Little Platte River (Old)
Description
Location is a guess based on this being the only Smithville crossing of the Little Platte shown on the 1914 topo.Smithville history states the first iron bridge was built in 1876.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bowstring Through truss bridge over Little Platte on Bridge Street
- Location
- Smithville, Clay County, Missouri
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Builder
- - King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland, Ohio [also known as King Bridge Co.]
- Design
- Bowstring through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.38897, -94.58089 (decimal degrees)
39°23'20" N, 94°34'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/363857/4361134 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 53 N., R. 33 W., Sec. 23
- Elevation
- 800 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 82136 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- QO&KC Smithville Railroad Bridge (Upstream)
- Bridge Street-Little Platte River (Replacement) (Successor)
Sources
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Smithville's story... mycouriertribune.com - Mention of the first iron bridge built in 1876.
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1876 is a common year for King bowstrings:
https://bridgehunter.com/ia/story/bh67074/
https://bridgehunter.com/ia/story/rainbow/
https://bridgehunter.com/ia/jones/bh51024/