1924 Baxter and 1924-1999 Loyall Bridges over Cumberland River in Harlan County, KY

Baxter: (Archived Bridge Hutner; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; HAER; Satellite)

Loyall: (Archived Bridge Hutner; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Both of these bridges used the Baltimore truss design.

Baxter Bridge

Technically, this bridge is over Martins Fork because the Confluence of the Cumberland River is a few hundred feet downstream from here.

Street View, Oct 2015

2010 photo by Calvin Sneed via BridgeHunter_baxter

Marvin Meyers posted
The old bridge in Baxter Kentucky. In Harlan County Kentucky.

RoadSites, 1 of 4 photos on this webpage
"A closer inspection reveals the overtaking of the bridge deck by the elements, mainly moss in this case. Photo taken by Lee Caudill."

1924-1999 Loyall Bridge

Marvin Meyers posted
The old Loyall Kentucky Bridge. Located in Harlan County Kentucky
HAER KY,48-LOY,1--1
1. GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE - Kentucky Route 840 Bridge, Spanning Cumberland River, Loyall, Harlan County, KY

"Significance: The Kentucky Route 840 Bridge is the longest of six Baltimore Pettit trusses built in Kentucky, and the best example of the three bridges built by the Vincennes Bridge Company in Harlan County in 1924" [HAER_data]

HAER KY,48-LOY,1--3
3. VIEW OF INTERIOR WEB, LOOKING WEST

Both Bridges

This two bridges carried US-119 before it was rebuilt to stay north of the Cumberland River.

1954/56 Harlan Quad @ 24,000

1937,1994 Suspension Bridge over San Rafael River near Buckhorn, WA

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; HAER; Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2025

"Significance: The San Rafael Bridge is a single span double intersection Warren suspension bridge and is one of two known bridges of this type in Utah. The bridge was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps of wood, steel and concrete." [HAER_data]

HAER UTAH,8-CADA.V,1--2
2. FULL VIEW OF WEST SIDE OF BRIDGE, LOOKING EAST - San Rafael Bridge, Spanning San Rafael River near Buckhorn Wash, Castle Dale, Emery County, UT

Photo from elevation.maplogs via BridgeHunter

Greg McDuffee posted three photos with the comment:

San Rafael Bridge

Wire suspension supporting a Double Intersection Warren Pony Truss

Suspension bridge over the San Rafael River at Buckhorn Wash

Built 1937 by the Civilian Conservation Corps

Emery County, Utah

06~22~2026

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1960s 395th Street Bridge over Cold Run Creek north of Nebo, IL

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2016

2016 photo by K. Allen Ballard via BridgeHunter

"This has an interesting little "X" truss brace in the span. It has been suggested the builder required an extra panel so this X was used." [Notes on BridgeHunter]

2016 photo by K. Allen Ballard via BridgeHunter

Exploring Pike County IL posted, cropped
Old bridge on 395th st. Nebo Illinois 

Bruce Waggoner: I pulled a combine across that bridge, in the mid 60's and got it wedged on the bridge. My dad came along and managed to get it free.

1955 Lewisville Lake Dam on East (Elm) Fork Trinity River upstream of Dallas, TX

(Satellite)

USACE

The USACE completed this dam in 1955 to replace the Lake Dallas Dam. Construction of the Lake Dallas Dam began in 1928 as "the principal source of municipal water for its owner, the city of Dallas." It was 80' (24.4m) high and 11,000' (3.4km) long. This dam is 125' (38m) high and 33,000' (10km) long. "The huge lake that resulted was thirteen miles long, had a 183-mile shoreline and a capacity of 436,000 acre-feet at an elevation of 515 feet, and covered almost one-fifth of Denton County." [tshaonline]

This twdb source has different capacity figures than the above source has. Since the main functions of this dam are water supply and flood control, lake capacities are important.

twdb
The elevation at the top of dam is 560 feet above mean sea level, while the maximum designed water surface is at the elevation of 553 feet above mean sea level. At top of flood control pool (crest of emergency spillway), at an elevation of 532 feet above mean sea level, the lake covers 39,170 acres and stores 989,700 acre feet of water. At the top of the conservation pool, at an elevation of 522 feet above mean sea level, the lake covers 27,175 acres and stores 598,902 acre feet of water.

To add to the confusion, this source says the dam "holds back 2 million acre-feet, or 2.5 billion tons [0.6 trillion gallons], of water when the lake is full."  The normal definition of "full" is the conservation pool, 522'. They must be defining "full" as the maximum designed water surface, 553'. Note that 31' (9.4m) of water would be flowing over the spillway and the water would be within 7' (2.1m) from the top if the reservoir ever got this full.

Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers posted five photos with the comment: "Construction of the Lewisville Lake dam was completed in August 1955. For more than 70 years the lake has been providing flood risk management for the Lewisville area and downstream communities along with supplying water to neighboring communities and recreational opportunities."

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This is not the spillway. It is the outlet.

YouTube Short

This is the spillway. I had a hard time finding it because it is way off to the side. Probably so that the water will flow over more competent riverbank soil. In fact, looking at a satellite image, under a thin layer of soil is bedrock.

The spillway apron obviously needs repair work. I wonder how many times water has flowed over this spillway. (I looked through past Google Earth images. A few times, and the apron has been torn up and repaired before.)

Google Earth, Jun 2022 (Satellite)

The next Google Earth images shows that they had started much needed repair work on the spillway.

Google Earth, Jun 2023

The latest image available shows that they are still working on it.

Google Earth, Oct 2025

Dec 12, 2015

DallasNews
"Sandbags and tarps have been deployed in an attempt to prevent further erosion of a 160-foot-long slide on the Lewisville Dam. To engineers, the slide’s proximity to another major one that happened in 1995 suggests instability that could threaten the dam’s foundation."
The Dam Called Trouble
[Read the article, there were too many issues for me to summarize. Of note, there was a sand boil and piping during a rainstorm in an area that had leaked for years. Fortunately, the operations team was able to stop the piping by placing "a one-layer ring of sandbags around the sand boil, allowing the pool of water inside to rise about six inches. The method is supposed to equalize the pressure and prevent the water and soil particles from expanding."
Also of particular note, a breech "would submerge downtown Dallas in roughly 50 feet of water, the Corps estimates, causing more than $21 billion in property damage....“It would be a much bigger magnitude to the Dallas area than Hurricane Katrina was to New Orleans,” says Vazquez [The dam's operational manager]."]

$39.1m was awarded in 2019 to improve drain seepage areas. [news_2019] (I wonder what was used for the core for this dam. Or did they not bother to put a cutoff wall in the foundation. More drains sounds like a patch, not a fix.)

$76.1m was awarded in 2022 to repair the spillway. This time they will anchor the apron to the underlying bedrock using post-tensioned anchors. [news_2022]

RED ALERT: bogus AI. If they are going to use AI, I guess it is good that it is really bad so that you know it is AI. The "photo" itself is obviously bogus because many of the diagonal rods don't make sense. But when you compare the "photo" to the real spillway, it becomes absurd.

OceanCraft RC posted

At Lewisville Lake Dam in Texas, engineers are strengthening the spillway by drilling more than 70 high-capacity post-tensioned anchors through the concrete and deep into the underlying bedrock.

The anchors essentially lock the spillway to the rock below, increasing resistance against uplift and sliding when enormous water pressures act beneath the structure during floods.

1956-2025 Long Creek Bridge over Table Rock Lake on White River at Ridgedale, MO

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

The 1757' (536m) long bridge has a main span of 480' (146m). [BridgeHunter]

Table Rock Aerial Photography posted

Happy Monday Morning Table Rock Lake! Today's post is the Long Creek Bridge over Table Rock Lake on Hwy. 86, outside of Ridgedale, MO. I was headed home late afternoon on Thanksgiving Day after shooting in Branson, and thought I'd take the time to shoot this bridge. In another two years, the MDOT is supposed to start construction on the replacement bridge - an uncovered open deck bridge. 

Enjoy this bridge while you still can - the replacement won't be a truss bridge😢 I'll need to get more photos of this bridge over the next couple of years!

And now that cooler weather is here, I'll probably go back to posting about 3 times a week, more if I get the opportunity to shoot.

Have a great week and stay safe!

Vintage Missouri posted four photos with the comment:

WHEN THE WHITE RIVER BECAME TABLE ROCK LAKE — KIMBERLING CITY, MISSOURI

These incredible photographs capture a landscape that would soon disappear beneath the waters of Table Rock Lake.

The smaller bridge seen below was the old Highway 13 bridge across the White River near Kimberling City, built in 1927. For three decades it carried travelers through this rugged part of Stone County.

Then came Table Rock Dam.

With the new reservoir planned, engineers knew the old bridge would soon be far below the lake’s surface. A much taller Highway 13 bridge was constructed in 1956–57, its massive concrete piers rising high above the old White River valley.

These photographs show the remarkable period when both bridges could still be seen at the same time — the old bridge down in the valley and its towering replacement overhead.

A huge thanks goes out to Steven Buschart  for letting us feature these, taken by his grandfather Robert Buschart Sr. In 1958.

As the waters behind Table Rock Dam rose, the old Highway 13 bridge was submerged. Much of it was never removed, and portions of the steel bridge still remain beneath Table Rock Lake today. Divers and sonar images have documented the remains deep below the surface. (Historic Bridges)

It is hard to imagine looking at Table Rock Lake today, but beneath all that water are old roads, fields, creek bottoms — and pieces of the bridge that once carried motorists across the White River.

These photos captured the Ozarks literally between two eras — after the new bridge was built, but before the old world below disappeared beneath Table

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This is looking East so the new bridge was just south of the 1956 bridge.

Street View, Aug 2024

modot
The bridge cost $66.5m. 

Feb 26, 2025. Normally, you have to wait a while before the detonation. This one didn't start rolling until after the detonation so we don't see the truss fall into the water.

Lake30

Mar 17, 2025.

Lake30

86 Long Creek Bridge💥

Table Rock Lake - it’s LAKE30!

Lake30 commented on their post
They are still cleaning up

Aug 20-21, 2026: I-70 Closed by Flood, Buckeye Lake Dams and Ohio & Erie Canal

I-70 Flood: (Satellite, see images below for road closures.)

Ungated Dam: (Satellite) This is also the Ohio & Erie Canal to the North.

Gated Dam: (Satellite)

O&E Canal to the South: (Satellite, the canal is still used to Lancaster Street. It grows algae for a couple more miles.)

Note the timestamp in the upper-left corner. I used Street View to confirm that exit 129 is OH-79 or Hebron Road, which goes to Buckeye Lake.

Meteorologist Chris Vickers posted
I-70 CLOSED: Record flooding on the South Fork Licking River near Buckeye Lake has flooded and closed I-70 east of Columbus. The river is still rising and will pass record flood stage Friday afternoon. ODOT says the interstate will remain closed until water recedes.

Sandi Douglass: This is definitely not the first time I-70 has been closed due to flooding. I grew up in Licking County and remember lots of flooding from the Buckeye Lake area.

Tim Clark:  just got off of 40, why in the hell wouldn’t the State have someone directing traffic at all the red lights? 

[Several comments indicating other years that I-70 was closed because of flooding. Although one case was because of a dam problem rather than because of excessive rain.

I recognize Licking River because its mouth with the Muskingum River is under the Y-Bridge in Zanesville, OH.]

The Columbus Dispatch posted

The Ohio Department of Transportation is currently studying flood mitigation for I-70 near Buckeye Lake, an ODOT spokesperson said. 

bit.ly/45Gmwp4 [paywall]

📸 Doral Chenoweth/Columbus Dispatch

Tom Wolfe: 30 years of study, look at it, NOW fix it and add 3 lanes! America’s highway.

[I just saw a video that Missouri is going to rebuild I-70 with three lanes all the way across the state.]

This (Aug 21, 2026) is the second day I looked, and I-70 is still closed. (I didn't save the image the first day I looked, which is when it first closed.) And look at the traffic jams on US-40.

Satellite

Aug 22, 2026: only the ramps for southbound traffic on Hebron Road are closed. The stream labeled South Fork Licking River is downstream of the Ungated Dam. The little treeline threading its way North through the intersection is the stream that is downstream from the Gated Dam.

Satellite

Meteorologist Nick Dunn posted

I-70 STILL CLOSED: As of 2PM, water still covers all of I-70 in Licking County near Buckeye Lake. The South Fork Licking River continues to remain well above flood stage this afternoon even though it has crested. The river was about 6 inches away from tying the record for the highest crest.

It will likely be late this evening or sometime tomorrow morning before all lanes of I-70 can be safely reopened. This is only the 3rd time in the last 10 years this closure has happened, with 2020 being the most recent time. - 2:02 PM 8/21/2026

Becky Warner: Only? Three times in 10 years is three times too often. And you wouldn't believe the smell from the rotting vegetation after the water table goes back down. [Other comments reacted to the use of "only."]

Jeremy Moses: It was closer than that.

The record crest was 882.89'. All indications are that the river hit 882.82', which is only 0.84" from the record!

All Things Ohio posted

🌊 Central Ohio woke up under water after heavy overnight rain turned highways into rivers and forced an entire village to clear out. The Ohio Department of Transportation shut down Interstate 70 in both directions in Licking County near Buckeye Lake on Aug. 20, closing eastbound lanes past State Route 158 at Kirkersville and westbound lanes at U.S. 40, with the closure expected to last into the following day. 🚧 The South Fork Licking River was forecast to crest at 883.5 feet, a level the National Weather Service said would be a record, surpassing the 882.9 feet mark set in March 2020.

The Village of Buckeye Lake ordered a mandatory evacuation starting at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20 for all properties west of State Route 79, in effect for 24 hours unless the mayor lifted it sooner. In Columbus, city crews activated the Franklinton floodwall as river levels climbed, firefighters carried out water rescues during the early morning hours, and a stretch of Interstate 71 between I-70 and I-270 was closed after high water covered the roadway. ⚠️

James O'Donovan: Just to close again Saturday as another storm approaching and heat will make it worse in rain fall. [I noticed that Google Maps displayed a "Severe Thunderstorm Watch" when I accessed it Saturday, Aug 22.]

This stretch of the Ohio & Erie Canal is a summit. They built Buckeye Lake to supply water during droughts.

Ungated Dam

Note that the O&E Canal follows the Bank Road and then the Canal Road to the north. The canal remains intact until it gets to Hebron, OH.

Fairfield County Emergency Management Agency posted

Following the recent flooding from heavy rainfall and runoff, we understand why the attached images raised some concerns about a possible dam breach.

Thank you to those who saw something that looked concerning and brought it to the attention of public safety. We’d rather have you ask than overlook something that could be a real issue.

We want to reassure everyone that there is no dam breach and no safety risk.

The appearance is being caused by weeds and organic material growing across the surface of the spillway, which is changing how the water disperses as it flows over the dam.

We appreciate everyone looking out for their neighbors and speaking up when something doesn’t look right. That’s exactly the right thing to do!

Facebook Reel [Unfortunately, I still haven't figured out how to find the date for a Facebook Reel.]

Gated Dam

Street View, May 2025

Unfortunately, I-70 is not the only thing that got flooded at Buckeye Lake, OH.

Facebook Reel

Bonus

Beaver Run Road in Pataskala is broke.

Kyle Stevens commented on a post
Here is a photo from Pataskala

The closed segment of Beaver Road crosses two streams. It is the one I pinned because Street View shows it uses a culvert. The eastern stream has a bridge.

Satellite