Length of largest span: 79.0 ft.
Total length: 128.9 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.94333, -93.27333 (decimal degrees) 38°56'36" N, 93°16'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/476312/4310523 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 48 N., R. 22 W., Sec. 13
USGS topographic map
Houstonia
Inventory numbers
MO 097-408001.5 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 23466 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22471 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 02/2008)
Deck condition rating: Very Good(8 out of 9) Superstructure condition rating: Fair(5 out of 9) Substructure condition rating: Poor(4 out of 9) Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 18.3 (out of 100)
Posted August 10, 2007, by Van Tobin (vtbmk [at] aol [dot] com)
As a child in the 1940s our family rumbled across that rusty old bridge many times. We lived on a farm near by. We fished in the Blackwater and occasionally played there also.