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Champ Clark Bridge

Pike County, Missouri
and Pike County, Illinois

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Overview

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Main span

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East end

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Overview from motel

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West span

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West portal

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Plaque

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Overhead plaque

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Lower joint

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Overview

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East end

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Overview

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Main span

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View from northwest

This photo was taken by Dick Brown
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State line

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Behind east portal

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East portal

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Scene from 1959

Back in 1959 the bridge was painted grey

Photo submitted by Brent Freesmeyer

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Scene from 1996

This October 1996 photo shows the fall foliage as seen from Riverview Park

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This photos was taken when the bridge was being constructed. The collapse was caused by faulty false work. One worker was killed in this collapse.

Photo added by Jeremy Ruble

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Map 

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Facts 

Overview
Five-span through truss bridge over the Mississippi River on US 54 at Louisiana
Status
Open to two-lane traffic
History
Built 1927-28; rehabilitated 1981, rehabilitated 2005, also repainted silver
Builders
- Harrington, Howard and Ash
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas
- Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Design
Pennsylvania through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 418.5 ft.
Total length: 2,286.4 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.7 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Louisana Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.45616, -91.04841   (decimal degrees)
39°27'22" N, 91°02'54" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/667907/4369216 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 54 N., R. 1 W., Sec. 18
USGS topographic map
Louisiana
Inventory numbers
MoDOT K-932R (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 5996 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22317 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 11/2006)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 42.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
4,124

Categories 

Built 1927 (364)
Built during 1920s (4,800)
Functionally obsolete (5,794)
Harrington, Howard and Ash (7)
Illinois (976)
Louisiana, Missouri (5)
Mississippi River (88)
Missouri (2,598)
Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. (25)
NR-eligible (2,623)
Navigable waterway (1,260)
Open (22,297)
 Owned by state (6,768)
Pennsylvania truss (129)
Pike County, Illinois (29)
Pike County, Missouri (31)
Span length 250-500 feet (597)
State line crossing (184)
Through truss (5,553)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (730)
Truss (16,268)
US 54 (20)
Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. (18)

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Comments 

Champ Clark Bridge
Posted January 23, 2007, by Jeremy (Ruble)

This is an article out of a local book showing the Champ Clark bridge when it collasped during construction. I believe there was one person killed. This is becuase everybody else was leaving the construction site for the day. Not many people know about this.

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