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Ouachita River Bridge (Arkadelphia, Arkansas)

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Parker thru-truss

Opened
  
1933

Added to NRHP
  
1 February 2006

Built
  
1933 (1933)

NRHP Reference #
  
05001591

Body of water
  
Ouachita River

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Location
  
AR 7/51, Arkadelphia, Arkansas

MPS
  
Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS

The Ouachita River Bridge is a steel Parker through truss bridge carrying Arkansas Highway 7 and Arkansas Highway 51 across the Ouachita River at Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The trusses of the bridge were manufactured in 1933 by the Luten Bridge Company, and were first used to carry Highways 7 and US 67 over the Caddo River. That bridge was disassembled in the 1950s, and the trusses were stored until used to build this bridge in 1960. The main trusses span 202 feet (62 m), while the approaches combined measure 301 feet (92 m), giving the bridge a total length of 503 feet (153 m). The deck is concrete laid on steel girders and is 24 feet (7.3 m) wide. It is one of two crossings of the Ouachita River in Clark County.

The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

References

Ouachita River Bridge (Arkadelphia, Arkansas) Wikipedia