Total bridges
41
Public highway bridges in Ohio County
County profile · official public datasets
Ohio County, IN
41 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.3% rated Good, 51.2% Fair, 2.4% Poor.
- 41
- Public bridges
- 46.3%
- Good condition
- 2.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Ohio County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 24%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 41
- public highway bridges
- 1987
- 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.
Ohio County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Ohio County ranks #22 of 92 Indiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.4%). Ohio County, Indiana contains 41 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.3% are rated “Good,” 51.2% “Fair,” and 2.4% “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.
Good condition
46.3%
19 of 41 rated 7-9
Fair condition
51.2%
21 of 41 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.4%
1 of 41 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#22 of 92
Among Indiana counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 41 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 46.3% (19)
Fair 51.2% (21)
Poor 2.4% (1)
Ohio County's Poor-condition bridges carry 879 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 879 crossings a day against 339 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 41 of 41 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
19.5% of Ohio County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
8 of the 41 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 46.3% 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.
One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR 262 over ARNOLD CREEK, built 1967, carries 879 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 879 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Ohio County's bridges were built
41 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1950s 2
1950–1959
2 bridges
- 1960s 2
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
6 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
7 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
12 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
7 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 12 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1987, 9 years newer than the Indiana average of 1978.
How Ohio County compares with Indiana's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Indiana counties nearest Ohio County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.4% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1987 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 7 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 91 Indiana counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starke County | 86 | 53.5% | 40.7% | 5.8% | 1987 |
| Fulton County | 85 | 36.5% | 58.8% | 4.7% | 1977 |
| Blackford County | 73 | 31.5% | 63% | 5.5% | 1983 |
| Switzerland County | 62 | 41.9% | 50% | 8.1% | 1982 |
| Union County | 58 | 27.6% | 67.2% | 5.2% | 1973 |
| Ohio County (this page) | 41 | 46.3% | 51.2% | 2.4% | 1987 |
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 Ohio 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 Ohio County, both outside Indiana so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside IN (41 bridges here).
- Saguache County, CO · 41 bridges
- Echols County, GA · 41 bridges
- Pike County, GA · 41 bridges
- Clinton County, KY · 41 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside IN (1987 here).
- St. Louis County, MO · avg 1987 · 912 bridges
- Ellis County, TX · avg 1987 · 691 bridges
- St. Louis County, MN · avg 1987 · 663 bridges
- Palm Beach County, FL · avg 1987 · 610 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (41)
SOUTH FORK ROAD
FairOver: SOUTH FORK
0.10 W OF KIRKPATRICK, Ohio, IN
Built 1980 Load: 20.5 t ADT: 100
SR 262
FairOver: ARNOLD CREEK
01.13 W SR 56, Ohio, IN
Built 1983 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 2,339
SR 262
FairOver: BRANCH ARNOLD CREEK
03.53 W SR 56, Ohio, IN
Built 1985 Load: 28.8 t ADT: 929
ABERDEEN ROAD
FairOver: BRANCH OF WILLOW CREEK
0.00 INT OF WILLOW CREEK, Ohio, IN
Built 1900 Load: 29.5 t ADT: 200
ABERDEEN ROAD
FairOver: BEAR BRANCH
0.10 E OF BEAR VALLEY, Ohio, IN
Built 1920 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
MEXICO RIDGE ROAD
FairOver: BEAR CREEK
2.60 N OF ABERDEEN RD, Ohio, IN
Built 1993 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
KIRKPATRICK ROAD
FairOver: DRY BRANCH
0.60 S OF FORK ROAD, Ohio, IN
Built 1999 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
HARTFORD PARK
FairOver: BRANCH OF LAUGHERY CR
0.90 NE OF SR 262, Ohio, IN
Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 200
FOURTH STREET
FairOver: DRY BROOK
0.10 W OF N ELM STREET, Ohio, IN
Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 250
ABERDEEN ROAD
FairOver: BEAR BRANCH
0.30 E OF BEAR VALLEY, Ohio, IN
Built 1920 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 100
BEAR VALLEY ROAD
FairOver: BEAR BRANCH
0.20 N OF ABERDEEN RD, Ohio, IN
Built 1998 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 10
SR 56
FairOver: LAUGHERY CREEK
02.64 W US 50, Ohio, IN
Built 1959 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 8,021
DOWNEY RIDGE ROAD
FairOver: MUD LICK CREEK
0.10 W OF SR 262, Ohio, IN
Built 1916 Load: 35.7 t ADT: 158
ABERDEEN ROAD
FairOver: WILLOW CREEK
0.80 E OF WORK ROAD, Ohio, IN
Built 1987 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 132
ABERDEEN ROAD
FairOver: BEAR BRANCH
00.60 W OF MEXICO RIDGE, Ohio, IN
Built 2002 Load: 39.4 t ADT: 100
SR 262
FairOver: DRY BRANCH
00.38 W SR 56, Ohio, IN
Built 1998 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 3,994
BEAR CREEK ROAD
FairOver: BRANCH OF BEAR CREEK
00.25 N OF KAMMAN RD, Ohio, IN
Built 2004 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 50
NELSON ROAD
FairOver: NORTH BRANCH
00.20 S OF TAYLOR RD, Ohio, IN
Built 1999 Load: 47.1 t ADT: 100
BELL BRANCH ROAD
FairOver: BELL BRANCH
00.60 N OF ICEBERG ROAD, Ohio, IN
Built 2012 Load: 49.6 t ADT: 100
SR 56
FairOver: ISLAND BRANCH CREEK
03.35 E SR 262, Ohio, IN
Built 1954 Load: 50.5 t ADT: 7,110
CASS UNION ROAD
FairOver: MURRAY BRANCH
0.60 N OF SR 56, Ohio, IN
Built 1983 Load: 51.8 t ADT: 1,333
HARTFORD PARK
GoodOver: BRANCH OF LAUGHERY CR
0.10 E OF WOODS RIDGE RD, Ohio, IN
Built 2001 Load: 30.3 t ADT: 295
BELL BRANCH ROAD
GoodOver: BELL BRANCH
1.10 N OF ICEBERG RD, Ohio, IN
Built 1999 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 100
ABERDEEN ROAD
GoodOver: SOUTH FORK
1.80 W OF WORK ROAD, Ohio, IN
Built 1992 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 122
HARTFORD PARK
GoodOver: BR OF LAUGHERY CREEK
2.50 W OF OLD SR 56, Ohio, IN
Built 1985 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 100
SR 262
GoodOver: S FORK LAUGHERY CREEK
04.83 E SR 62, Ohio, IN
Built 1976 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 616
SR 56
GoodOver: ARNOLD CREEK
00.08 E SR 156, Ohio, IN
Built 1961 Load: 41.1 t ADT: 3,453
SALEM RIDGE Rd
GoodOver: DRY Branch
02.30 N of SR 56, Ohio, IN
Built 2001 Load: 41.1 t ADT: 200
WHITE Rd
GoodOver: Branch of ARNOLD Creek
00.00 Int of SR 262, Ohio, IN
Built 2012 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 38
BELLS BRANCH RD
GoodOver: BELLS BRANCH
00.60 N OF ICEBERG RD, Ohio, IN
Built 2013 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 100
STEWART RIDGE ROAD
GoodOver: ARNOLD CREEK
0.20 S OF SR 262, Ohio, IN
Built 2019 Load: 42.8 t ADT: 100
SERVICE ROAD
GoodOver: ARNOLD CREEK
0.00 INT OF SR 262, Ohio, IN
Built 2012 Load: 43.0 t ADT: 100
GOODNER ROAD
GoodOver: MIRE BRANCH
00.40 S OF ABERDEEN RD, Ohio, IN
Built 2003 Load: 44.7 t ADT: 39
MILTON BEAR BR.RD.
GoodOver: LONG BRANCH
00.50 N OF ABERDEEN RD, Ohio, IN
Built 2003 Load: 46.4 t ADT: 287
BELLS BRANCH ROAD
GoodOver: BELL BRANCH
01.16 N OF ICEBERG RD, Ohio, IN
Built 2011 Load: 47.3 t ADT: 100
HARTFORD PARK
GoodOver: BRANCH LAUGHERY CR
0.10 E OF HARTFORD RIDGE, Ohio, IN
Built 2014 Load: 47.3 t ADT: 200
BEAR CREEK ROAD
GoodOver: BRANCH OF BEAR CREEK
00.02 N OF KAMMAN RD, Ohio, IN
Built 2008 Load: 49.4 t ADT: 50
BASCOM CORNER Rd
GoodOver: Arnold Creek
00.00 Int of WHITE Rd, Ohio, IN
Built 2007 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 100
HARTFORD Pk
GoodOver: Branch of LAUGHERY Cr
00.20 E of WOODS RIDGE Rd, Ohio, IN
Built 2005 Load: 55.2 t ADT: 347
HARTFORD Pk
GoodOver: Branch of LAUGHERY Cr
00.20 E of NELSON Rd, Ohio, IN
Built 2004 Load: 62.7 t ADT: 100
SR 262
PoorOver: ARNOLD CREEK
02.48 W SR 56, Ohio, IN
Built 1967 Load: 39.2 t ADT: 879
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