Shawneetown Bridge
Appearance
Shawneetown Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 37°41′28″N 88°07′53″W / 37.69111°N 88.13139°W |
Carries | IL 13 / KY 56 |
Crosses | Ohio River |
Locale | Old Shawneetown, Illinois and Union County, Kentucky |
Official name | Earle C. Clements Bridge |
Maintained by | Kentucky Transportation Cabinet |
Characteristics | |
Design | Cantilevered truss bridge |
Total length | 3,200.2 feet (975.4 m) |
Width | 23.9 feet (7.3 m) |
Longest span | 825.1 feet (251.5 m) |
Clearance above | 19.0 feet (5.8 m) |
History | |
Opened | 1955 |
Statistics | |
Daily traffic | 2,800 |
Location | |
The Earle C. Clements Bridge, commonly known as the Shawneetown Bridge, is a cantilever truss bridge carrying Kentucky Route 56 and Illinois Route 13 across the Ohio River. Clements was a former governor of Kentucky. The bridge connects Old Shawneetown, Illinois, to rural Union County, Kentucky. Opened in 1955, it is the only highway bridge over the Ohio between Paducah, Kentucky, and Evansville, Indiana.
The Shawneetown Bridge was featured in a scene in the film U.S. Marshals. The film's crash scene was filmed several miles downstream in Pope County, Illinois.
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Categories:
- Road bridges in Illinois
- Buildings and structures in Union County, Kentucky
- Buildings and structures in Gallatin County, Illinois
- Bridges completed in 1955
- Bridges over the Ohio River
- Road bridges in Kentucky
- 1955 establishments in Illinois
- 1955 establishments in Kentucky
- Cantilever bridges in the United States
- Truss bridges in the United States
- Illinois bridge (structure) stubs
- Southern United States bridge (structure) stubs
- Kentucky building and structure stubs
- Kentucky transportation stubs