Total bridges
221
Public highway bridges in Daviess County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
Good condition
59.3%
131 of 221 rated 7-9
Fair condition
40.7%
90 of 221 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
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.
When Daviess County's bridges were built
221 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 6
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s 16
1960–1969
16 bridges
- 1970s 15
1970–1979
15 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
34 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
52 bridges
- 2000s 11
2000–2009
11 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
78 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
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.
| 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.
Poor-condition bridges (0)
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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.