Bear Creek Old US 66 Bridge

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Photo taken by Greg Hall

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Overview: Steel stringer bridge over Bear Creek on Old US 66 (Pennington Drive)
Location: Laclede County, Missouri
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1923; rehabilitated 1972
Design: Steel stringer
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 89.9 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +37.74086, -92.58607 (decimal degrees)
37°44'27" N, 92°35'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/536469/4177144 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Oakland
Land survey: T. 35 N., R. 15 W., Sec. 28
Average daily traffic (as of 2016): 392
Inventory numbers: MONBI 4571 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MoDOT G-248 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 21825 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of August 2017): Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 71.2 (out of 100)
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Update Log

June 16, 2008: Greg Hall reports bridge is not a pony truss

Sources

James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
Greg Hall - cyclebay [at] aol [dot] com

Comments

Bear Creek US 66 Bridge

Posted August 11, 2008, by Greg and Olivia Hall (cyclebay [at] aol [dot] com)

The only bridge that we find on this stretch of raod is very near the jnct of Old route 66 and Hwy F (slightly different that the map placement, so you might double check me). GPS of N37 44.409 w92 35.215. Taken 7/24/08

Photo 1- Looking west

Photo 2- Weight limit sign

Photo 3- Looking East

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