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Warrick County, IN

197 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 48.7% rated Good, 47.7% Fair, 3.6% Poor.

197
Public bridges: 48.7%
Good condition: 3.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Warrick County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 35%
lowest Poor share in state: 3.6%
Poor-condition share: 197
public highway bridges: 1981
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.

Warrick County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Warrick County ranks #32 of 92 Indiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.6%). Warrick County, Indiana contains 197 public highway bridges. Roughly 48.7% are rated “Good,” 47.7% “Fair,” and 3.6% “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

197

Public highway bridges in Warrick County

Good condition

48.7%

96 of 197 rated 7-9

Fair condition

47.7%

94 of 197 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.6%

7 of 197 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#32 of 92

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

Condition distribution

Share of 197 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

48.7% (96)

Fair

47.7% (94)

Poor

3.6% (7)

Warrick County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,154 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 192 crossings a day against 4,995 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 196 of 197 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

40.6% of Warrick County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

80 of the 197 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 48.7% 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 29.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

NEW HARMONY ROAD over TRIBUTARY OF PIGEON CREE, built 1930, carries 339 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,154 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

2
1900s

1
1920s

2
1930s

7
1940s

1
1950s

5
1960s

13
1970s

65
1980s

35
1990s

33
2000s

17
2010s

12
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 65 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 33% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Indiana average (1978).

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

The 5 Indiana counties nearest Warrick County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.6% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is 9 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Warrick County and the 5 Indiana counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Hancock County	201	58.2%	41.8%	0%	1985
Parke County	200	25.5%	56.5%	18%	1953
Fountain County	197	24.9%	67%	8.1%	1964
Warrick County (this page)	197	48.7%	47.7%	3.6%	1981
Adams County	194	45.4%	53.6%	1%	1983
Howard County	194	40.2%	55.2%	4.6%	1976

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside IN (197 bridges here).

Crawford County, IL · 197 bridges
Allamakee County, IA · 197 bridges
Calhoun County, IA · 197 bridges
Decatur County, IA · 197 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside IN (1981 here).

Franklin County, OH · avg 1981 · 922 bridges
Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
Montgomery County, OH · avg 1981 · 632 bridges
McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges

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

All 197 Good 96 Fair 94 Poor 7

All bridges (197)

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Warrick County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Warrick County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,154 vehicle crossings a day

40.6% of Warrick County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 29.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Warrick 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

All bridges (197)

YANKEETOWN ROAD

TENNYSON ROAD

HOLLAND ROAD

CASTLE GARDEN ROAD

GENTRY ROAD

EAMES STATION ROAD

STEVENSON STATION

PHILLIPS ROAD

CHINN ROAD

SR 161

SHELTON ROAD

I-64 WBL

I-64 EBL

SR 161

BULLOCKTOWN ROAD

TWIN BRIDGES ROAD

FOLSOMVILLE ROAD

SHELTON ROAD

SR 61

SR 61

SR 68

SR 68

FOLSOMVILLE ROAD

ELBERFELD ROAD

HOLLAND ROAD

CR 1100 WEST

OUTER LINCOLN ROAD

ESKEW ROAD

SR 68

ANDERSON ROAD

SR 68

SPURGEON ROAD

PETERSBURG RD

OLD US 66

SELVIN ROAD

PHILLIPS ROAD

I-64 EBL

MAXVILLE ROAD

SR 61

STANLEY ROAD

SR 61

ST JOHNS ROAD

OLD DEGONIA ROAD

ROBINSON ROAD

SHARON ROAD

I-64

TAYLORSVILLE ROAD

SR 66 EB

SR 66 WB

ELVAH TYRING ROAD

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