Total bridges
197
Public highway bridges in Warrick County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
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.
When Warrick County's bridges were built
197 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 2
Built before 1900
2 bridges
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 7
1930–1939
7 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 5
1950–1959
5 bridges
- 1960s 13
1960–1969
13 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
65 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
35 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
33 bridges
- 2000s 17
2000–2009
17 bridges
- 2010s 12
2010–2019
12 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
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.
| 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.
Fair-condition bridges (94)
SEVEN HILLS ROAD
FairOver: BLUEGRASS CREEK
00.53 MI W OF St. JOHNS R, Warrick, IN
Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 75
MCNEELY ROAD
FairOver: TRIBUTARY OF COLES CREEK
00.61 MI E OF CR 300 E, Warrick, IN
Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 38
EBENEZER ROAD
FairOver: TRIBUTARY OF COLES CREEK
00.89 MI E OF CR 300 E, Warrick, IN
Built 1994 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 140
STATE STREET
FairOver: SQUAW CREEK
00.38 MI S OF MILLER CEM, Warrick, IN
Built 1976 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 339
TAYLORSVILLE ROAD
FairOver: ROBINSON CREEK
01.42 MI W SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1988 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 135
JOCKEY ROAD
FairOver: COLES CREEK
00.14 MI E OF COLES CREEK, Warrick, IN
Built 1987 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 135
COLES CREEK ROAD
FairOver: COLES CREEK
00.08 MI N OF MCNEELY RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1999 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 35
EBENEEZER ROAD
FairOver: COLES CREEK
00.15 MI E OF COLES CREEK, Warrick, IN
Built 1987 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 35
WALLACE FORK ROAD
FairOver: LITTLE PIGEON CREEK
00.14 MI S OF LINCOLN TRA, Warrick, IN
Built 1988 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 170
ESKEW ROAD
FairOver: CYPRESS CREEK
00.69 MI N OF SR 61, Warrick, IN
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 137
FOLSOMVILLE ROAD
FairOver: TRIBUTARY BARREN FORK
0.19 MI N KELLY RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,131
HUNT TRAIL ROAD
FairOver: TRIBUTARY COLES CREEK
0.69 MI E BRUSH CREEK RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1978 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 135
YANKEETOWN ROAD
FairOver: TRIBUTARY OF CYPRESS CRE
0.24 MI N RUDOLPH RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1947 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,371
MCNEELY ROAD
FairOver: COLES CREEK
0.06 MI W COLES CREEK RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 35
TARRYTOWN ROAD
FairOver: UNIDENTIFIED CREEK
00.01 INT OF SLEEPY HOLLO, Warrick, IN
Built 1970 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 135
ROEDER ROAD
FairOver: CYPRESS CREEK
00.25 MI W OF SR 61, Warrick, IN
Built 2002 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 135
NEW HARMONY ROAD
FairOver: SQUAW CREEK
0.35 MI E WEYERBACHER, Warrick, IN
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 170
SR 62
FairOver: LITTLE PIGEON CREEK
01.16 E SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1955 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 1,875
SR 66 EB
FairOver: CYPRESS CREEK
01.81 W SR 61, Warrick, IN
Built 1969 Load: 33.1 t ADT: 9,600
SR 62
FairOver: OTTER CREEK
01.01 W SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1981 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 6,087
NEW HARMONY ROAD
FairOver: PIGEON CREEK
00.42 MI W OF WASSON RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1959 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 339
SR 61
FairOver: SOUTHERN RR
00.27 S SR 62, Warrick, IN
Built 1970 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 2,844
SR 68/161
FairOver: I-64 EB/WB
00.75 E SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1972 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 1,064
I-64 EBL
FairOver: IND SOUTHERN RAILROAD
01.48 E I-164 / SR 57, Warrick, IN
Built 1970 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 8,539
TWO STORY ROAD
FairOver: OTTER CREEK
0.22 MI N DUSTY RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1988 Load: 34.6 t ADT: 139
SR 161
FairOver: I-64 EB/WB
00.73 N SR 68, Warrick, IN
Built 1972 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 2,951
NEW HOPE ROAD
FairOver: CANEY CREEK
0.13 MI W BULLOCKTOWN, Warrick, IN
Built 1971 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 508
PHILLIPS ROAD
FairOver: BARREN FORK
00.01 INT OF MAUER RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1980 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 199
SR 61
FairOver: KOEHLER DITCH
01.49 S SR 62, Warrick, IN
Built 1970 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 2,758
SR 161
FairOver: I-64 EB/WB
00.39 S SR 68, Warrick, IN
Built 1972 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 731
INDERRIEDEN ROAD
FairOver: SQUAW CREEK
00.32 MI N OF MILLERSBURG, Warrick, IN
Built 1979 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 205
DALE ROAD
FairOver: N FORK LITTLE PIGEON CRE
00.52 MI E OF BEARDSLEY R, Warrick, IN
Built 1983 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 374
TENNYSON ROAD
FairOver: COLES CREEK
0.97 MI W SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1978 Load: 40.2 t ADT: 508
TELEPHONE ROAD
FairOver: EDWARDS DITCH
0.24 MI W LIBBERT RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1980 Load: 41.8 t ADT: 5,466
LINCOLN TRAIL ROAD
FairOver: POKEBERRY CREEK
0.62 MI E BROOKS RD, Warrick, IN
Built 1980 Load: 42.2 t ADT: 308
DALE HEILMAN ROAD
FairOver: POKEBERRY CREEK
01.00 MI W OF CR 800 E, Warrick, IN
Built 1973 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 369
SR 68
FairOver: LITTLE RED CREEK
00.12 W SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 2016 Load: 43.1 t ADT: 940
FROG POND ROAD
FairOver: HOSKINSON DRAIN
0.32 MI N SR 62, Warrick, IN
Built 1972 Load: 43.1 t ADT: 438
SR 62
FairOver: BARREN FORK
02.28 W SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1980 Load: 43.4 t ADT: 3,738
SR 68/161
FairOver: UPPER PIGEON CREEK
01.87 E SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1932 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 742
I-64 EBL
FairOver: LITTLE RED CREEK
02.65 W SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1972 Load: 47.3 t ADT: 19,296
I-64 WBL
FairOver: LITTLE RED CREEK
02.65 W SR 161, Warrick, IN
Built 1972 Load: 47.3 t ADT: 19,296
SR 61
FairOver: OTTER CREEK
04.64 S I-64, Warrick, IN
Built 1990 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 4,229
SR 66
FairOver: WILLIAMS/HOWARD DITCH
00.15 E I69, Warrick, IN
Built 1986 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 40,377
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