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Locust Creek Covered Bridge

Covered bridge · Linn County, Missouri

Locust Creek Covered Bridge in Linn County, Missouri. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970, the bridge was constructed in 1868. Photo c
Locust Creek Covered Bridge in Linn County, Missouri. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970, the bridge was constructed in 1868. Photo c · Milanite / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Locust Creek Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Linn County, Missouri, described in its record as place in Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places. Missouri has 4 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.

It was built in 1868, in the Civil War era; it is about 151 feet long.

Status check, 2026-11: Howe truss bridge and the longest of Missouri's four surviving covered bridges. It now sits over a dry former channel of Locust Creek and was raised 6 ft in 2001. Locust Creek Covered Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands at 39.7917° N, 93.2342° W.

Key facts

Current structure built1868
Length151 ft
Heritage designationNational Register of Historic Places listed place
National RegisterListed
Coordinates39.79167, -93.23417

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