Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Bridgeton, MO

Bridgeton was first platted in 1794 under the French name Marais des Liards, meaning 'Cottonwood Swamp,' and was also known as Village à Robert after its founder Robert Owen, who held a Spanish land grant.

Bridgeton received its state charter in 1843 and served as a stop on the road from St. Louis to St. Charles — Meriwether Lewis passed through on his way to join the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and emigrants bound for the Oregon and Santa Fe trails stopped here as well.

Bridgeton had a population of 11,445 at the 2020 census, with 4,595 households.

Bridgeton is a major transportation hub for Greater St. Louis, sitting at the junction of I-70 and the I-270 outer belt, and portions of St. Louis Lambert International Airport lie within the city limits.

Bridgeton's population peaked at 19,992 in 1970 after nearly 8,000 single-family homes were built during the 1960s suburban boom.

That airport next door became a mixed blessing — the W-1W runway expansion at Lambert Airport eliminated about 2,000 homes in Bridgeton, most notably in the Carrollton subdivision, and drove much of the city's recent population decline.

On Good Friday, April 22, 2011, an EF4 tornado with winds estimated at 170 mph struck Bridgeton — the strongest tornado to hit the St. Louis area since 1967 — yet caused no deaths.

Bridgeton is home to the West Lake Landfill, an EPA Superfund site since 1990 that contains radioactive waste from Manhattan Project-era uranium processing; the site was featured in the HBO documentary Atomic Homefront.

The Payne-Gentry House, the oldest home in Bridgeton, is preserved in Gentry Park and contains the oldest surviving doctor's office in Missouri.

SSM DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton, a 476-bed hospital, traces its origins to 1828, when it was founded as the first hospital west of the Mississippi River.