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The I-40 bridge disaster was a bridge collapse that occurred southeast of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, United States at 7:45 a.m. on May 26, 2002. Freight barges being transported on the Arkansas River collided with a pier supporting the Interstate 40 road bridge crossing the river. The resulting failure of the supports caused a section of the ...
The State Highway 78 Bridge at the Red River replaced a suspension bridge that collapsed on January 15, 1934. The former bridge had been opened as a toll bridge in July 1927. It was purchased by Oklahoma and Texas for use as a free bridge. [3] It collapsed in a storm after the swinging bridge's wire cables became twisted and snapped. [3]
The North Canadian River is a river, 440 miles (710 km) long, [4] in Oklahoma in the United States. It is a tributary of the Canadian River , draining an area of 17,955 square miles (46,500 km 2 ) [ 5 ] in a watershed that includes parts of northeastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle .
In 1908, only a year after statehood, Arkansas River flooding at Tulsa caused $250,000 in damages ($8.48 million in 2023 dollars). The city was mostly on top of a bluff along the river, thus spared flooding. However, the railroad bridge across the river was washed away, disrupting railroad traffic westward until the bridge could be replaced. [1]
The Oklahoma State Patrol said Saturday that it closed a highway south of Sallisaw after a barge struck a bridge over Arkansas River. Troopers closed South U.S. Highway 59 about 1:25 p.m. after ...
The U.S. Department of Transportation will fund yet another pedestrian bridge over the Oklahoma River, which would be the third new connection between north and south Oklahoma City ...
The Oklahoma County jail keeps falling apart. This time several plumbing failures hit all at once. But at least the jail isn't sinking as some feared.
The river held at that level for two hours, but by then the level at the east end of the dam failed, sending the downstream river level 2 feet (0.61 m) higher in a matter of minutes. [8] By the time the crisis had passed, Jones, Oklahoma and Spencer, Oklahoma, two towns downstream of Oklahoma City, had been surrounded by water. The official ...