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23rd Street Viaduct

Jackson County, Missouri

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Looking east

The bridge crosses over parking south of the American Royal complex and joins city streets on the bluff. Branching off to the right is a new ramp.

Photo taken by Clark Vance in March 2011

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BH Photo #251183

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Street Views 

Facts 

Overview
Concrete and steel deck girder bridge over BNSF Railway and city streets on 23rd Street
Location
Jackson County, Missouri
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1919-21; rehabilitated 1960 and 1981
Builder
- A.S. Hecker (Contractor)
Design
Concrete deck girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 97.1 ft.
Total length: 2,381.0 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 56.1 ft.
Also called
Kansas Avenue Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.08704, -94.60401   (decimal degrees)
39°05'13" N, 94°36'14" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/361272/4327660 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Kansas City
Land survey
T. 49 N., R. 33 W., Sec. 7
Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
1,948
Inventory numbers
MONBI 25423 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MO 048-S053B21 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
BH 42783 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of April 2016)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 34.9 (out of 100)
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Categories 

A.S. Hecker (1)
Built 1921 (552)
Built during 1920s (9,658)
Concrete girder (945)
Deck girder (5,295)
Girder (9,485)
 Have street view (25,833)
Jackson County, Missouri (271)
Missouri (6,180)
Open (38,671)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,246)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,759)

Update Log 

  • May 11, 2013: Updated by Chris Knight: Some older articles that tells about this bridge has it called the Kansas Avenue Bridge even thought there was another one nearby.
  • March 23, 2013: New photos from Clark Vance
  • June 14, 2009: Added by James Baughn

Related Bridges 

  • Kansas Avenue Bridge (Same project) - This bridge crosses the state line and is several continuous spans with different names

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23rd Street Viaduct
Posted August 21, 2013, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

This bridge has a very unusual detail at the eastern end where the truss is cantilevered out beyond the pier where it holds one end of a deck plate girder span. This is an extremely interesting bridge.