Total bridges
172
Public highway bridges in Pike County
County profile · official public datasets
Pike County, IN
172 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 50.6% rated Good, 39% Fair, 10.5% Poor.
- 172
- Public bridges
- 50.6%
- Good condition
- 10.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pike County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 86th
- of 92 on Poor share
- 10.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 172
- public highway bridges
- 1978
- 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.
Pike County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pike County ranks #86 of 92 Indiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10.5%). Pike County, Indiana contains 172 public highway bridges. Roughly 50.6% are rated “Good,” 39% “Fair,” and 10.5% “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
50.6%
87 of 172 rated 7-9
Fair condition
39%
67 of 172 rated 5-6
Poor condition
10.5%
18 of 172 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#86 of 92
Among Indiana counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 172 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 50.6% (87)
Fair 39% (67)
Poor 10.5% (18)
Pike County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,339 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 79 crossings a day against 4,216 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 170 of 172 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
32% of Pike County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
55 of the 172 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 50.6% 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 19.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CR 725E over BRANCH FLAT CREEK, built 1930, carries 256 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 18-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 1,339 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Pike County's bridges were built
172 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 2
Built before 1900
2 bridges
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1920s 7
1920–1929
7 bridges
- 1930s 17
1930–1939
17 bridges
- 1940s 9
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s 4
1950–1959
4 bridges
- 1960s 4
1960–1969
4 bridges
- 1970s 15
1970–1979
15 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
51 bridges
- 1990s 20
1990–1999
20 bridges
- 2000s 4
2000–2009
4 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
33 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 51 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Indiana average (1978).
How Pike County compares with Indiana's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Indiana counties nearest Pike County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10.5% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 91 Indiana counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington County | 174 | 44.8% | 52.9% | 2.3% | 1976 |
| Newton County | 172 | 41.9% | 56.4% | 1.7% | 1981 |
| Pike County (this page) | 172 | 50.6% | 39% | 10.5% | 1978 |
| Miami County | 171 | 34.5% | 57.9% | 7.6% | 1966 |
| Lawrence County | 165 | 32.1% | 58.2% | 9.7% | 1981 |
| Jennings County | 163 | 39.9% | 50.3% | 9.8% | 1973 |
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 Pike 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 Pike County, both outside Indiana so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside IN (172 bridges here).
- Colbert County, AL · 172 bridges
- Marshall County, AL · 172 bridges
- Moultrie County, IL · 172 bridges
- Houston County, MN · 172 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside IN (1978 here).
- Orange County, CA · avg 1978 · 1,164 bridges
- Sumner County, KS · avg 1978 · 659 bridges
- Livingston County, IL · avg 1978 · 579 bridges
- Buncombe County, NC · avg 1978 · 555 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (67)
OLD SR 64
FairOver: CUP CREEK
00.29 W CR 950 E, Pike, IN
Built 1966 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 317
CR 700W
FairOver: CONGER CREEK
00.28 S CR 550 N, Pike, IN
Built 1984 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 226
ILLINOIS STREET
FairOver: PRIDES CREEK
00.15 E SR 57, Pike, IN
Built 1972 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,177
CR 1200S
FairOver: BR SUGAR CREEK
00.33 E CR 1050 E, Pike, IN
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 104
CR 800E
FairOver: BRANCH CUP CREEK
00.22 S CR 900 S, Pike, IN
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 94
CR 175S
FairOver: BONE CREEK
00.36 E CR 800 E, Pike, IN
Built 1993 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 94
MERIDIAN RD
FairOver: OVERFLOW FROM MINE PIT
00.25 N SR 64, Pike, IN
Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 112
SR 64
FairOver: CUP CREEK
00.88 E SR 257, Pike, IN
Built 1950 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 2,750
CR 875S
FairOver: BR S FK PATOKA RIVER
00.25 W CR 300 E, Pike, IN
Built 1902 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 7
SR 56
FairOver: LITTLE CONGER CREEK
00.90 W SR 65, Pike, IN
Built 1987 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 377
CR 875W
FairOver: BRANCH HARBIN CREEK
00.83 S SR 65, Pike, IN
Built 1920 Load: 39.8 t ADT: 76
CR 225N
FairOver: LITTLE CONGER CREEK
00.66 E CR 700 W, Pike, IN
Built 1994 Load: 41.5 t ADT: 40
CR 975W
FairOver: HARBIN CREEK
01.00 N CR 350 N, Pike, IN
Built 1986 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 13
CR 400E
FairOver: BRANCH S FK PATOKA RIVER
00.34 S CR 950 S, Pike, IN
Built 1990 Load: 72.8 t ADT: 54
ENOS COAL CO ROAD
FairOver: SR 61
03.90 S SR 64, Pike, IN
Built 1949 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 102
SR 61
FairOver: AMAX MINE HAUL ROAD
01.95 S SR 64, Pike, IN
Built 1974 Load: 91.7 t ADT: 2,305
SR 56
FairOver: PRIDES CREEK
00.80 E SR 57, Pike, IN
Built 1990 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 8,679
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