Showing posts with label bridges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bridges. Show all posts

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Towhead Creek Bridge

Towhead Creek is a small tributary of the Wakarusa River that flows between Shawnee and Osage counties. A neighborhood known as Towhead was also on the county line of Shawnee and Osage south of Wakarusa with a school located at 125th and Lewelling.

This bridge is located between the former Jason Stewart and John C. Blood properties over Towhead Creek, west of Wakarusa. It's possible this bridge was built around 1915 by John C. Blood.




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.







Saturday, February 22, 2025

Salt Creek Bridge






This steel truss bridge, built in 1945, crosses Salt Creek in Osage County just east of Lyndon.