Webbers Falls Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Arkansas River on U.S. 64/S.H. 100, replacing a multi-span through truss.
- Location
- Muskogee County, Oklahoma, and Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1969
- Design
- Deck plate girder bridge over Arkansas River channel of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 334.0 ft.
Total length: 1,928.2 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
- Also called
- Ray Fine Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.51932, -95.12590 (decimal degrees)
35°31'10" N, 95°07'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/307227/3932714 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Webbers Falls
- Elevation
- 500 ft. above sea level
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 3,300
- Inventory numbers
- OKNBI 176110000000000 (Oklahoma bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 37755 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 66.7 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- November 10, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- January 5, 2010: Updated by David Backlin: Revised coordinates
- December 6, 2008: Updated by Gene McCluney: added data
- November 24, 2008: Updated by Rick Mattioni: Category added.
- October 28, 2008: Updated by Rick Mattioni: Categories added.
- October 25, 2008: Added by Rick Mattioni
Sources
- Rick Mattioni
- Gene McCluney - gmacfilm [at] live [dot] com
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
- Dana and Kay Klein
Comments
To get an idea of what the Original through-truss bridge at Webbers Falls looked like, one has to see the still existing multi-truss bridges across the Arkansas river, north of Muskogee, where the Arkansas is not navigable. I have provided bridgehunter links below:
http://bridgehunter.com/ok/osage/21660000000000/
There was a long multi-span through truss bridge crossing the Arkansas river a block south of this bridge that was removed when this bridge was built. This was part of the project to enable barge shipping and navigation on the Arkansas. All the older through truss bridges south of Muskogee (on the Arkansas) were replaced or altered. All that remains of the old bridge are the access roads, and some old pier remnants. The original bridge entered Webbers Falls right on the main downtown street.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ok/muskogee/webbers-falls/
Here's a picture from the Webbers Falls Museum showing the old bridge. It was so narrow that it had a stoplight on each end to facilitate crossing.