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Daviess County, IN

221 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 59.3% rated Good, 40.7% Fair, 0% Poor.

221
Public bridges: 59.3%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Daviess County pairs a top-1% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 1%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 221
public highway bridges: 1993
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.

Daviess County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Daviess County ranks #1 of 92 Indiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Daviess County, Indiana contains 221 public highway bridges. Roughly 59.3% are rated “Good,” 40.7% “Fair,” and 0% “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

221

Public highway bridges in Daviess County

Good condition

59.3%

131 of 221 rated 7-9

Fair condition

40.7%

90 of 221 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 221 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#1 of 92

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

Condition distribution

Share of 221 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

59.3% (131)

Fair

40.7% (90)

Poor

0% (0)

16.3% of Daviess County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

36 of the 221 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 59.3% 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.

1910s

1
1920s

2
1930s

1
1940s

6
1950s

3
1960s

16
1970s

15
1980s

34
1990s

52
2000s

11
2010s

78
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 78 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 35.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1993, 15 years newer than the Indiana average of 1978.

How Daviess County compares with Indiana's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Indiana counties nearest Daviess County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1993 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is 21 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 91 Indiana counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Daviess County and the 5 Indiana counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
LaPorte County	227	33.5%	59.9%	6.6%	1972
Rush County	227	25.6%	70.5%	4%	1970
Daviess County (this page)	221	59.3%	40.7%	0%	1993
Decatur County	220	34.5%	58.6%	6.8%	1971
Dubois County	220	49.5%	47.3%	3.2%	1982
Sullivan County	217	29.5%	65.4%	5.1%	1966

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside IN (221 bridges here).

Polk County, AR · 221 bridges
Beauregard County, LA · 221 bridges
Crawford County, OH · 221 bridges
Union County, OH · 221 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside IN (1993 here).

Salt Lake County, UT · avg 1993 · 659 bridges
Marshall County, MS · avg 1993 · 255 bridges
Rowan County, NC · avg 1993 · 245 bridges
Cabarrus County, NC · avg 1993 · 236 bridges

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

All 221 Good 131 Fair 90 Poor 0

Fair-condition bridges (90)

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Daviess County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

16.3% of Daviess County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Daviess County compares with Indiana's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (90)

SR 57

CR 1100E

CR 300E

CR 450E

CR 700N

CR 1050E

CR 575S

CR 150S

CR 200N

CR 700S

CR 350N

CR 300S

CR 450E

CR 225E

ALEXANDER HILL RD

OLD US 50

CR 450S

US 50 EB

CR 475E

CR 50E

CR 650E

CR 100W

CR 600E

CR 25W

CR 950S

CR 700E

CR 100W

E 12TH ST

CR 700S

CR 1150E

CR 1600N

CR 450S

CR 200 N TO FIELD

CR 1200E

US 50 EB

I-69 NB

CR 100W

CR 500E

SR 57

US 50

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