The Grand Glaize Bridge is the name of two girder bridges that carry U.S. Route 54 over the Grand Glaize Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks in the city of Osage Beach, Missouri .
11-718: The bridge crosses Grand Glaize Creek that is a tributary to the Osage River in Camden County, Missouri . The original two-lane Grand Glaize Bridge was built in 1931 during the construction of Bagnell Dam and the Lake of the Ozarks. It was a Warren truss or deck truss structure with the trusses built under the deck. Other bridges built across the lake at the time including the Hurricane Deck Bridge over
22-593: Is widely spelled as two words Grand Glaize. It should not be confused with the Grand Glaize Creek which is a tributary to the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri . The creek is formed by the confluence of Dry Auglaize Creek and Wet Glaize Creek about one mile north of Toronto, Missouri in Camden County . From there it flows north into Miller County . It passes near Brumley and passes under
33-626: The Grand Auglaize Bridge . According to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources the lowest flow that could be expected in a 10-day period is 16 cubic feet (0.45 m ) a second. The creek becomes part of the Lake of the Ozarks at the extreme southeast corner of Lake of the Ozarks State Park . Download coordinates as: When Bagnell Dam was built to impound the Osage River , it also impounded
44-647: The Osage Arm and the Niangua Bridge over the Niangua Arm were also deck truss structures. The only non-deck-truss bridge on the lake was the Niangua Arm US 54 Bridge. The original bridge had very narrow lanes and no shoulder. The new parallel girder bridge carrying westbound traffic was completed in 1984. The original bridge was torn down and the new eastbound girder bridge was built in 1995 in
55-792: The Osage River that forms the Grand Glaize Arm of the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. The creek flows for 10 miles (16 km) before reaching the Lake of the Ozarks, and the Grand Glaize Arm extends another 15 miles (24 km) before reaching the Osage River within the lake. The creek as recognized by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is spelled as one word. However it
66-478: The French term la glace [* aux glaces ?], which means 'mirror', or 'ice' ['at the ices']. There is something to be said for the unattested eau glaise 'clay water', like attested terre glaise 'clay soil', but both Ramsey and Stewart agree that Auglaize (and variants, implying "* aux glaises ") is American French for 'at the lick(s)', literally 'at the clays', where wild beasts came to lick salt and minerals from
77-416: The creek near St. Louis there is also an Auglaize River in northwestern Ohio . According to List of Ohio county name etymologies the etymology could be French for eau glaise meaning 'dirty water' (though the reference is to ' clay '). The Ohio site also mentions that it could be a Native American term for 'fallen timbers' or 'overgrown with brush', or French 'at the (salt) lick '. It could have been
88-485: The creeks which had previously flowed into the river. The Grand Glaize Bridge carried U.S. Highway 54 over what is now the Grand Glaize arm of the lake. The bridge was known as the "Upside-Down Bridge" because the supporting structure was built below the deck to allow for an unobstructed view of the lake. The bridge was infamous for having very narrow lanes, no shoulders, and steel railings as barriers. The bridge
99-402: The place of the original. In 2023, both the eastbound bridge and westbound underwent rehabilitation by placing epoxy -wearing on the surface. Only one side was done at a time. There has been proposals to add a pedestrian bridge adjacent to the existing bridge due to no current dedicated pedestrian walkway present. Grandglaize Creek Grandglaize Creek is a creek and tributary to
110-619: The soil, and fulfilling the lacuna in standard French for a "salt lick." The spelling "glaize" is archaic (as in Cotgrave's French-English dictionary of 1611). In addition, in Arkansas there is a creek and mountain Glazypeau, from French glaise à Paul 'Paul's lick'. The assumed indigenous American (Algonquian) "'fallen timbers' or 'overgrown with brush'" has no support without any attested etymons supplied and would not match phonetically in
121-414: Was replaced in the 1980s, when a wider bridge was constructed next to it. The new bridge carried Highway 54 and the old bridge was restricted to bicycles and pedestrians. In the 1990s, the original bridge was demolished and replaced with a new bridge to carry two lanes of westbound Highway 54. The 1980s bridge was changed to carry two lanes of eastbound Highway 54. Besides the Lake of the Ozarks creek and
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