Total bridges
253
Public highway bridges in Effingham County
County profile · official public datasets
Effingham County, IL
253 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 47.4% rated Good, 47.8% Fair, 4.7% Poor.
- 253
- Public bridges
- 47.4%
- Good condition
- 4.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Effingham County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 13%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 4.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 253
- public highway bridges
- 1974
- avg year built
Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.
Effingham County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Effingham County ranks #13 of 102 Illinois counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.7%). Effingham County, Illinois contains 253 public highway bridges. Roughly 47.4% are rated “Good,” 47.8% “Fair,” and 4.7% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.
Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.
Good condition
47.4%
120 of 253 rated 7-9
Fair condition
47.8%
121 of 253 rated 5-6
Poor condition
4.7%
12 of 253 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#13 of 102
Among Illinois counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 253 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 47.4% (120)
Fair 47.8% (121)
Poor 4.7% (12)
Effingham County's Poor-condition bridges carry 37,370 vehicle crossings a day
That is 5.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,114 crossings a day against 750 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.
Computed over the 253 of 253 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
42.3% of Effingham County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
107 of the 253 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 47.4% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.
Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
One structure carries 32% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
FAI-70 EB over FAS-711, built 1961, carries 11,950 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 37,370 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Effingham County's bridges were built
253 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s
1900–1909
26 bridges
- 1910s 3
1910–1919
3 bridges
- 1930s 12
1930–1939
12 bridges
- 1950s 5
1950–1959
5 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
53 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
34 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
38 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
27 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
31 bridges
- 2010s 19
2010–2019
19 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 53 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1974, 5 years older than the Illinois average of 1979.
How Effingham County compares with Illinois's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Illinois counties nearest Effingham County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.7% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 101 Illinois counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeKalb County | 261 | 40.6% | 46.4% | 13% | 1981 |
| Montgomery County | 261 | 52.1% | 40.6% | 7.3% | 1977 |
| Jefferson County | 260 | 47.7% | 46.2% | 6.2% | 1984 |
| Effingham County (this page) | 253 | 47.4% | 47.8% | 4.7% | 1974 |
| Lake County | 251 | 37.1% | 53% | 10% | 1976 |
| Piatt County | 246 | 62.2% | 31.7% | 6.1% | 1979 |
Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Effingham County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Effingham County, both outside Illinois so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside IL (253 bridges here).
- Livingston County, LA · 253 bridges
- Manatee County, FL · 254 bridges
- Ottawa County, MI · 254 bridges
- Wagoner County, OK · 254 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside IL (1974 here).
- Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
- Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
- Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
- Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (253)
FAS-1725
GoodOver: FIRST SALT CREEK
N C L TEUTOPOLIS, Effingham, IL
Built 1976 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,600
FAS-1725
GoodOver: SECOND SALT CREEK
0.5 N TEUTOPOLIS, Effingham, IL
Built 1976 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,600
TR-62
GoodOver: SECOND CREEK
4 MI SE ALTAMONT, Effingham, IL
Built 1998 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 300
TR-217
GoodOver: TRIB DIETERICK CK
5 MI E WATSON, Effingham, IL
Built 1997 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 125
TR 266
GoodOver: LITTLE BISHOP CREEK
2 MI SW ELLIOTSTOWN, Effingham, IL
Built 2001 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 175
TR 242
GoodOver: SALT CREEK
1 MI W TEUTOPOLIS, Effingham, IL
Built 2002 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 475
TR 160
GoodOver: GREEN CREEK
NW EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 2006 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 525
TR 115
GoodOver: LILY CREEK
2 MI NE DEXTER, Effingham, IL
Built 2003 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75
TR 232
GoodOver: SALT CREEK BRANCH
1 MI E EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 125
TR 46
GoodOver: CREEK
2 MI NE ALTAMONT, Effingham, IL
Built 2007 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50
TR 284
GoodOver: RAMSEY CREEK
1.2 MI N EBERLE, Effingham, IL
Built 2007 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50
TR-40
GoodOver: Coon Creek
1 MI E ALTAMONT, Effingham, IL
Built 2017 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 625
TR 237
GoodOver: Bishop Creek Trib
1 Mi. E. Elliottstow, Effingham, IL
Built 2015 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 150
TR 288
GoodOver: Trib Salt Creek Tr
2.0 Mi. N of Ttown, Effingham, IL
Built 2016 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 375
TR 121 1200th Av
GoodOver: Rock Creek
3 Mi. NW Altamont, Effingham, IL
Built 2020 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75
FAS 810
GoodOver: LUCAS CREEK
0.25 MI S EBERLE, Effingham, IL
Built 1977 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 250
FAS 810
GoodOver: LOWER BR LUCAS CREEK
0.5 MI S EBERLE, Effingham, IL
Built 1977 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 250
FAS-1709 (CH-8)
GoodOver: NORTH FORK
3 MI NE SHUMWAY, Effingham, IL
Built 1979 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 300
FAS-708 (CH-12)
GoodOver: COON CREEK
2.5 MI E MASON, Effingham, IL
Built 1979 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 325
TR-47A
GoodOver: SECOND SALT CREEK
1.5 MI N T-TOWN, Effingham, IL
Built 1983 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100
TR-177
GoodOver: COON CREEK
2 MI SE ALTAMONT, Effingham, IL
Built 1984 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 200
TR-242A
GoodOver: BRANCH SALT CREEK
1 MI W TEUTOPOLIS, Effingham, IL
Built 1988 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 675
TECHNOLOGY DR/FU83
GoodOver: CREEK
EFFINGHAM-NE PART, Effingham, IL
Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 6,850
FAU-8351
GoodOver: BRANCH SALT CREEK
0.25 MI N EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 1977 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 500
CH-13 PUMPING STA
GoodOver: FIRST SALT CREEK
2MI W MONTROSE, Effingham, IL
Built 1984 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 275
FAS709(CH19)
GoodOver: LITTLE BISHOP CR
1 MI S ELLIOTTSTOWN, Effingham, IL
Built 1999 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 575
TR-277
GoodOver: FULFER CREEK
3.5 MI S BETHLEHEM, Effingham, IL
Built 1986 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 150
TR-220
GoodOver: E BR GREEN CREEK
0.75 MI S ST MARYS, Effingham, IL
Built 2001 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 500
TR-218A
GoodOver: CREEK
NE CORNER EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 1997 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 325
FAS-1709 (CH-8)
GoodOver: LITTLE WABASH RIVER
4.5 MI N EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 1980 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 425
TR-263
GoodOver: FULFER CREEK
2 MI SW GILMORE, Effingham, IL
Built 1988 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 50
TR-256
GoodOver: SALT CREEK
0.5 MI W TEUTOPOLIS, Effingham, IL
Built 1997 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 225
TR-251
GoodOver: BISHOP CREEK
3.5 MI SW ELLIOTSTOW, Effingham, IL
Built 2002 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 100
TR-89
GoodOver: LILY CREEK
2.5 MI N DEXTER, Effingham, IL
Built 1989 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 75
TR 266
GoodOver: LUCAS CREEK
1.7 MI SW EBERLE, Effingham, IL
Built 2012 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 50
TR-194A
GoodOver: SUGAR FORK CREEK
2.5 MI N EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 1989 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 475
TR-316A
GoodOver: BISHOP CREEK
1 MI NW DIETRICH, Effingham, IL
Built 1987 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 50
TR 25
GoodOver: Gossage Branch
1.0 Mi. SW Beecher C, Effingham, IL
Built 2016 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 60
TR-302
GoodOver: BRANCH BISHOP CREEK
3 MI W DIETRICH, Effingham, IL
Built 1979 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 350
CH-11 SCHNIEDER RD
GoodOver: BR FIRST SALT CREEK
1.5 MI E TEUTOPOLIS, Effingham, IL
Built 1987 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 350
TR-62
GoodOver: BROCKETT CREEK
2.5 MI NE GILMORE, Effingham, IL
Built 1990 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 100
TR-25
GoodOver: WOLF CREEK
3 MI E BEECHER CITY, Effingham, IL
Built 1992 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 50
TR-220
GoodOver: SUGAR FORK
3 MI N EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 1991 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 375
FAS-708 (CH_12)
GoodOver: RAMSEY CREEK
3 MI W EBERLE, Effingham, IL
Built 1998 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 200
FAS 1652 (US 45)
GoodOver: E Branch Green Creek
1.5 Mi. S Shelby Co., Effingham, IL
Built 2016 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 3,950
TR-194A
GoodOver: GREEN CREEK
3.5 MI N EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 1993 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 475
FAS-1710 (CH-24)
GoodOver: LILY CREEK
2 MI S FUNKHOUSER, Effingham, IL
Built 1991 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 950
TR-85B
GoodOver: LITTLE WABASH RIVER
1 MI W EFFINGHAM, Effingham, IL
Built 1995 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 950
TR-238
GoodOver: LITTLE BISHOP CREEK
3 MI SW ELLIOTSTOWN, Effingham, IL
Built 2004 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 50
TR 139
GoodOver: BISHOP CREEK
1.5 MI NW DIETERICH, Effingham, IL
Built 2005 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 125
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