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Morgan County, IN

252 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 50.4% rated Good, 45.6% Fair, 4% Poor.

252
Public bridges: 50.4%
Good condition: 4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Morgan County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 40%
lowest Poor share in state: 4%
Poor-condition share: 252
public highway bridges: 1986
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.

Morgan County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Morgan County ranks #37 of 92 Indiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4%). Morgan County, Indiana contains 252 public highway bridges. Roughly 50.4% are rated “Good,” 45.6% “Fair,” and 4% “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

252

Public highway bridges in Morgan County

Good condition

50.4%

127 of 252 rated 7-9

Fair condition

45.6%

115 of 252 rated 5-6

Poor condition

10 of 252 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#37 of 92

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

Condition distribution

Share of 252 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

50.4% (127)

Fair

45.6% (115)

Poor

4% (10)

Morgan County's Poor-condition bridges carry 7,042 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 704 crossings a day against 5,653 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 252 of 252 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

35.3% of Morgan County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

89 of the 252 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 50.4% 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 53.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

OLD SR 37 over BLUFF CREEK, built 1930, carries 3,740 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 10-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 7,042 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

2
1910s

1
1920s

8
1930s

17
1940s

8
1950s

8
1960s

33
1970s

26
1980s

12
1990s

39
2000s

23
2010s

38
2020s

37

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 39 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 15.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1986, 8 years newer than the Indiana average of 1978.

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

The 5 Indiana counties nearest Morgan County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1986 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 5 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Morgan County and the 5 Indiana counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Clark County	257	52.5%	45.9%	1.6%	1987
Randolph County	257	38.1%	53.3%	8.6%	1978
Montgomery County	252	51.2%	46.4%	2.4%	1983
Morgan County (this page)	252	50.4%	45.6%	4%	1986
Shelby County	247	32.4%	60.3%	7.3%	1974
Spencer County	244	48.8%	50%	1.2%	1982

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside IN (252 bridges here).

Harlan County, KY · 252 bridges
Oxford County, ME · 252 bridges
Colfax County, NE · 252 bridges
Medina County, OH · 252 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside IN (1986 here).

El Paso County, TX · avg 1986 · 783 bridges
Caddo County, LA · avg 1986 · 682 bridges
Weld County, CO · avg 1986 · 614 bridges
Polk County, IA · avg 1986 · 545 bridges

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

All 252 Good 127 Fair 115 Poor 10

Good-condition bridges (127)

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Morgan County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Morgan County's Poor-condition bridges carry 7,042 vehicle crossings a day

35.3% of Morgan County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 53.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Morgan 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

Good-condition bridges (127)

NEW HARMONY ROAD

NAST CHAPEL RD

SR 37 SB

MOSIER RD

HENDERSON FORD RD

NORTH COX ROAD

LIBERTY LOOP RD

UPPER PATTON RD

LIBERTY CH SB RAMP

SR 37 NB

WHETSTINE RD

SR 37 / SR-37 SBL

I-69 SB

EGBERT RD

APPALOOSA ROAD

OLD MORGANTOWN RD

HAMMER RD

PERRY ROAD

SR 67

ARTESIAN AVENUE

MCCLURE RD

PLUMMER RD

WHITE LICK RD

SR 42

OLD RAILROAD RD

EGBERT ROAD

SR-37 NB

SR 252

FERGUSON RD

LIBERTY CHURCH RD

SR 252

LEGENDARY DRIVE

HICKEY RD

I-69 NB

SR 37 SB

WAVERLY ROAD

SR 37 NB

SR-37 SB

BIG HURRICANE RD

SR 39

SR 37 NB

SAMUEL MOORE PKWY

TURKEY NECK RD

SR 37 SB

EGBERT ROAD

RINKER RD

HALL RD

EAST HACKER CR RD

I-69 NB

BRYANTS CREEK RD

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