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Lawrence County, IL

185 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 36.2% rated Good, 41.1% Fair, 22.7% Poor.

185
Public bridges
36.2%
Good condition
22.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Lawrence County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

101st
of 102 on Poor share
22.7%
Poor-condition share
185
public highway bridges
1975
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.

Lawrence County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lawrence County ranks #101 of 102 Illinois counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 22.7%). Lawrence County, Illinois contains 185 public highway bridges. Roughly 36.2% are rated “Good,” 41.1% “Fair,” and 22.7% “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.

Total bridges

185

Public highway bridges in Lawrence County

Good condition

36.2%

67 of 185 rated 7-9

Fair condition

41.1%

76 of 185 rated 5-6

Poor condition

22.7%

42 of 185 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#101 of 102

Among Illinois counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 185 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
36.2% (67)
Fair
41.1% (76)
Poor
22.7% (42)

Lawrence County's Poor-condition bridges carry 94,890 vehicle crossings a day

That is 38.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 22.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,259 crossings a day against 803 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 185 of 185 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

42.7% of Lawrence County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

79 of the 185 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 36.2% 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 7.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

FAP-327WB (US-50) over FAS-1827, built 1958, carries 7,200 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 42-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 94,890 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Lawrence County's bridges were built

185 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 27 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 14.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Illinois average (1979).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Lawrence County compares with Illinois's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Illinois counties nearest Lawrence County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 22.7% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 5 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 101 Illinois counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lawrence County and the 5 Illinois counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
De Witt County 192 5.7%
Clinton County 190 7.4%
Saline County 185 4.9%
Lawrence County (this page) 185 22.7%
Jasper County 181 5%
Carroll County 179 10.6%

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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence County, both outside Illinois so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside IL (185 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside IL (1975 here).

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 185 Good 67 Fair 76 Poor 42

Good-condition bridges (67)

FAS-1806 (ILL-250)

Good

Over: DUNLAP CREEK

.5 MI E BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 1958 Load: 30.1 t ADT: 4,300

TR-228

Good

Over: BEAVER POND DITCH

2 MI E LAWRENCEVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 1978 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 50

TR-228

Good

Over: BEAVER POND DITCH

2 MI NE LAWRENCEVILL, Lawrence, IL

Built 1978 Load: 31.8 t ADT: 50

FAP 332(ILL 1)

Good

Over: STREAM

.5 MI S BIRDS RD, Lawrence, IL

Built 1998 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 3,600

TR-188

Good

Over: FLAT BRANCH

O.5 MI N PINKSTAFF, Lawrence, IL

Built 1978 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75

TR-83

Good

Over: THE SLOUGH

2.5 MI NW PETROLIA, Lawrence, IL

Built 1980 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75

TR-231A

Good

Over: ENGLAND DITCH

1 MI SW BILLETT, Lawrence, IL

Built 1981 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 35

TR-84

Good

Over: TRIB RACCOON CREEK

7.5 MI W ST FRANCISV, Lawrence, IL

Built 1986 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 20

TR-98

Good

Over: MUDDY CREEK

0.5 MI N PETROLIA, Lawrence, IL

Built 1996 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 125

TR 199

Good

Over: INDIAN CREEK

2.5 MI SE BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 75

TR-27

Good

Over: STREAM

1 MI SW CHAUNCEY, Lawrence, IL

Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50

TR 253

Good

Over: CREEK

1.9 MI NW ST FRANCIS, Lawrence, IL

Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100

TR 47

Good

Over: BIRCH CREEK

3 MI W PINKSTAFF, Lawrence, IL

Built 2006 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50

TR 237

Good

Over: DRAIN DITCH

5 MI SSE BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 2006 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50

TR 32

Good

Over: MAD CREEK

0.75 MI E CHAUNCEY, Lawrence, IL

Built 2009 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 20

TR 72

Good

Over: SEED CREEK

2.5 MI SW BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 2007 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 35

TR 249

Good

Over: DRAINAGE DITCH

5.5 MI SE BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 2009 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 35

FAS 1803 CH 17

Good

Over: OTTER POND DRAIN DT

3 MI E PICKSTAFF, Lawrence, IL

Built 2009 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 250

TR 243

Good

Over: TRIB BONPAS CREEK

6.75 MI S SUMNER, Lawrence, IL

Built 2008 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 35

TR 10 A

Good

Over: PAUL CREEK

4 MI SSW CHAUNCEY, Lawrence, IL

Built 2011 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 25

TR 237

Good

Over: BIG SLOUGH

2 NW ST FRANCISVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 2011 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100

TR 87

Good

Over: ALLISON DR DT #1

5 MI E PINKSTAFF, Lawrence, IL

Built 2013 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 200

TR 169

Good

Over: CREEK

1.5 MI W BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 2014 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50

CH 11

Good

Over: RACCOON CREEK

6 MI SW BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 2014 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 50

TR-221

Good

Over: Trib to England Ditc

0.5 Miles W Billett, Lawrence, IL

Built 2018 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 20

TR-274

Good

Over: TAYLOR DRAINAGE DTCH

1 MI NW RUSSELLVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 1985 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 20

TR-50

Good

Over: TRIB RACCOON CREEK

3 MI SE SUMNER, Lawrence, IL

Built 1993 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 20

CH-17

Good

Over: DRAINAGE DITCH

3 MI SW RUSSELLVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 2005 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 300

TR 64

Good

Over: STREAM

1.35 MI E REDHILPK, Lawrence, IL

Built 1998 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 100

FAS 806 (CH 8)

Good

Over: STREAM

1 MI N BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 1990 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,000

TR 257

Good

Over: Trib to Wabash River

IN Road E. of Wabash, Lawrence, IL

Built 2014 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 500

FAS-1806 (ILL-250)

Good

Over: MUDDY CREEK

ECL SUMNER, Lawrence, IL

Built 1976 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 2,050

TR 235

Good

Over: LITTLE BONPAS CREEK

5.5 MI S SUMNER, Lawrence, IL

Built 2000 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 75

FAS-1808 (SBI-12)

Good

Over: BEAVER POND

3 MI E LAWRENCEVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 1985 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 2,450

FAP 327 (US 50)

Good

Over: OTTER POND DITCH

1.5 MI E IL 1 INT, Lawrence, IL

Built 2019 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 4,800

FAS 806

Good

Over: Raccoon Creek

8.5 Mi. S Bridgeport, Lawrence, IL

Built 2021 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 650

TR 212

Good

Over: OTTER POND DR DITCH

3 MI NE LAWRENVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 1999 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 225

FAS-801

Good

Over: BRUSHY CREEK

WEST EDGE BIRDS, Lawrence, IL

Built 1969 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 550

FAP-327 (US-50)

Good

Over: CH 12

.5 MI E ILL-1 INT, Lawrence, IL

Built 1959 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 4,800

TR 142

Good

Over: Indian Creek

2 Mi E Bridgeport, Lawrence, IL

Built 2020 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 150

TR-23

Good

Over: SUGAR CREEK

3 MI W RUSSELVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 1994 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 50

TR-164

Good

Over: BRUSHY CREEK

2 MI W PINKSTAFF, Lawrence, IL

Built 1983 Load: 39.2 t ADT: 50

TR-55

Good

Over: SUGAR CREEK

5 MI ESE BIRDS, Lawrence, IL

Built 1998 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 50

TR 266

Good

Over: Taylor Ditch

2.5 Mi. SW Russelville, Lawrence, IL

Built 2021 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 20

FAS 1806 (IL 250)

Good

Over: STREAM

0.7 MI W BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 2017 Load: 40.2 t ADT: 2,050

FAP 332 (IL 1)

Good

Over: BIG SLOUGH

5 MI S LAWRENCEVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 2022 Load: 40.2 t ADT: 2,250

TR-188

Good

Over: BRUSHY FORK CREEK

1 MI SE BIRDS, Lawrence, IL

Built 1987 Load: 40.2 t ADT: 50

FAS-1808 (SBI-12)

Good

Over: STREAM

6 MI E LAWRENCEVILLE, Lawrence, IL

Built 1995 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 2,450

TR-10A

Good

Over: BUGABOO CREEK

2.5 MI NNWSUMNER, Lawrence, IL

Built 1991 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 20

TR-227A

Good

Over: DRAIN DITCH

4 MI S BRIDGEPORT, Lawrence, IL

Built 1996 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 100

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