Total bridges
115
Public highway bridges in Carver County
County profile · official public datasets
Carver County, MN
115 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 57.4% rated Good, 40% Fair, 2.6% Poor.
- 115
- Public bridges
- 57.4%
- Good condition
- 2.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Carver 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 30%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 115
- public highway bridges
- 1995
- 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.
Carver County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Carver County ranks #26 of 87 Minnesota counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.6%). Carver County, Minnesota contains 115 public highway bridges. Roughly 57.4% are rated “Good,” 40% “Fair,” and 2.6% “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
57.4%
66 of 115 rated 7-9
Fair condition
40%
46 of 115 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.6%
3 of 115 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#26 of 87
Among Minnesota counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 115 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 57.4% (66)
Fair 40% (46)
Poor 2.6% (3)
Carver County's Poor-condition bridges carry 862 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 287 crossings a day against 7,541 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 115 of 115 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
15.7% of Carver County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
18 of the 115 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 57.4% 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 85.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
MSAS 113 over TCW RR, built 1913, carries 736 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 862 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Carver County's bridges were built
115 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1930s 3
1930–1939
3 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s 2
1950–1959
2 bridges
- 1960s 2
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
19 bridges
- 1980s 9
1980–1989
9 bridges
- 1990s 14
1990–1999
14 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
36 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
17 bridges
- 2020s 10
2020–2029
10 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 36 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 31.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1995, 9 years newer than the Minnesota average of 1986.
How Carver County compares with Minnesota's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Minnesota counties nearest Carver County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.6% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1995 against a peer-group mean of 1986 is 9 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 86 Minnesota counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traverse County | 121 | 65.3% | 33.1% | 1.7% | 1985 |
| Benton County | 117 | 54.7% | 36.8% | 8.5% | 1985 |
| Chippewa County | 116 | 49.1% | 44% | 6.9% | 1989 |
| Carver County (this page) | 115 | 57.4% | 40% | 2.6% | 1995 |
| Washington County | 112 | 42.9% | 52.7% | 4.5% | 1990 |
| Brown County | 108 | 60.2% | 38% | 1.9% | 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 Carver 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 Carver County, both outside Minnesota so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MN (115 bridges here).
- Alachua County, FL · 115 bridges
- Walton County, GA · 115 bridges
- Latah County, ID · 115 bridges
- Whitley County, IN · 115 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MN (1995 here).
- Williamson County, TX · avg 1995 · 1,170 bridges
- Craighead County, AR · avg 1995 · 442 bridges
- Utah County, UT · avg 1995 · 271 bridges
- DeSoto County, MS · avg 1995 · 266 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (115)
CSAH 41
GoodOver: BEVENS CREEK
1.8 MI N OF JCT CSAH 50, Carver, MN
Built 2013 Load: 43.7 t ADT: 444
US 212
GoodOver: HUNDERTMARK CREEK
0.1 MI NW JCT CSAH 10; 15, Carver, MN
Built 2007 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 17,613
CSAH 50
GoodOver: BEVENS CREEK
1.3 MI W OF JCT CSAH 40, Carver, MN
Built 2020 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 1,100
M 51
GoodOver: CARVER CREEK
0.03 MI SE JCT CSAH 40, Carver, MN
Built 1994 Load: 45.1 t ADT: 250
CSAH 101
GoodOver: US 212
1.25 MI N JCT 101; CSAH 1, Carver, MN
Built 2007 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 13,400
US 212
GoodOver: BLUFF CRK DR
0.4 MI NE JCT CSAH 14; 15, Carver, MN
Built 2007 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 17,613
CSAH 10
GoodOver: DAKOTA RAIL TRAIL
1.4 MI N OF JCT CSAH 30, Carver, MN
Built 2011 Load: 46.9 t ADT: 4,651
CSAH 15
GoodOver: US 212
1.0 MI N JCT CSAH 10; 15, Carver, MN
Built 2007 Load: 49.0 t ADT: 8,900
M 480
GoodOver: POND CHANNEL
1.4 MI NW JCT MSAS 110, Carver, MN
Built 2007 Load: 50.6 t ADT: 110
US 212
GoodOver: CREEK RD; CHASKA CREEK
0.38 MI S JCTCSAH10;US212, Carver, MN
Built 2008 Load: 51.0 t ADT: 9,224
CSAH 40
GoodOver: BEVENS CREEK
0.4 MI S OF JCT CSAH 50, Carver, MN
Built 2014 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 1,800
MN 5
GoodOver: TCW RR
0.3 MI W OF W JCT TH 101, Carver, MN
Built 1990 Load: 53.9 t ADT: 15,158
MSAS 113
PoorOver: TCW RR
1.1 MI S OF JCT CSAH 18, Carver, MN
Built 1913 Load: 6.5 t ADT: 736
T 167
PoorOver: BEVENS CREEK
0.2 MI E OF JCT CSAH 51, Carver, MN
Built 1971 Load: 18.0 t ADT: 86
T 73
PoorOver: BEVENS CREEK
1.6 MI E OF JCT CSAH 41, Carver, MN
Built 1977 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 40
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