Saturday, May 17, 2025

Jordan Road Bridge

This bridge, located between Wakarusa and Carbondale in Osage County, was built in 1920 and features a steel girder construction with wooden planks for a deck. It crosses a small unnamed stream and run perpendicular to a railroad track.

The bridge has been deemed structurally deficient and due to circumstances like its age, width, deterioration, and stream bank erosion, replacement is probably not too far down the line. However, it's estimated only 40 cars travel on this bridge per year and it may be easier and cheaper to close it and dead end the road from the north and south.