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Crawford County, MO

118 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 28.8% rated Good, 63.6% Fair, 7.6% Poor.

118
Public bridges
28.8%
Good condition
7.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Crawford County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 41%
lowest Poor share in state
7.6%
Poor-condition share
118
public highway bridges
1970
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.

Crawford County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Crawford County ranks #47 of 115 Missouri counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.6%). Crawford County, Missouri contains 118 public highway bridges. Roughly 28.8% are rated “Good,” 63.6% “Fair,” and 7.6% “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

118

Public highway bridges in Crawford County

Good condition

28.8%

34 of 118 rated 7-9

Fair condition

63.6%

75 of 118 rated 5-6

Poor condition

7.6%

9 of 118 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#47 of 115

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

Condition distribution

Share of 118 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
28.8% (34)
Fair
63.6% (75)
Poor
7.6% (9)

Crawford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,275 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 142 crossings a day against 1,184 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 118 of 118 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

61.9% of Crawford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

73 of the 118 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 28.8% 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 76% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

OR 44 E over LIT BOURBEUSE RVR, built 1966, carries 969 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 9-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,275 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Crawford County's bridges were built

118 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 26 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1970, 9 years older than the Missouri average of 1979.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Crawford County compares with Missouri's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Missouri counties nearest Crawford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.6% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1970 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 114 Missouri counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Crawford County and the 5 Missouri counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Perry County 120 17.5%
Schuyler County 120 3.3%
Laclede County 119 10.1%
Madison County 118 19.5%
Crawford County (this page) 118 7.6%
Ripley County 116 5.2%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MO (118 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MO (1970 here).

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

All 118 Good 34 Fair 75 Poor 9

Good-condition bridges (34)

OR 44 E

Good

Over: BOONE CR

S 35 T 40 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1920 Load: 14.4 t ADT: 1,660

RT M S

Good

Over: MERAMEC RVR

S 23 T 36 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1948 Load: 18.0 t ADT: 192

4TH ST

Good

Over: YADKIN CR

S 33 T 38 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2003 Load: 19.8 t ADT: 120

1ST ST

Good

Over: YADKIN CR

S 34 T 38 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2001 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 125

HOBO RD

Good

Over: BNSF RR

S 11 T 36 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1968 Load: 25.2 t ADT: 35

MO 19 S

Good

Over: BRUSH CR

S 23 T 40 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1985 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 1,734

MO 19 S

Good

Over: MERAMEC RVR

S 28 T 38 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2000 Load: 28.8 t ADT: 6,396

RT AA S

Good

Over: BR OF CROOKED CR

S 5 T 36 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1962 Load: 31.5 t ADT: 195

CAVE RD

Good

Over: HUZZAH CR

S 11 T 38 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1999 Load: 33.3 t ADT: 100

MO 49 S

Good

Over: DRY FORCK CR

S 9 T 36 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2019 Load: 34.2 t ADT: 1,126

RT BB S

Good

Over: CHERRY VALLEY CR

S 16 T 37 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2012 Load: 35.1 t ADT: 467

RT O S

Good

Over: PINE BR

S 18 T 38 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2012 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 275

MO 8 E

Good

Over: HUZZAH CR

S 25 T 38 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1993 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 2,213

FOUR MILE RD

Good

Over: BRUSH CR

S 35 T 40 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2016 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 35

RT JJ S

Good

Over: BOURBON BR

S 3 T 39 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1959 Load: 37.8 t ADT: 790

OAK HILL RD

Good

Over: BR OF BRUSH CR

S 12 T 39 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2002 Load: 38.7 t ADT: 700

MO 8 E

Good

Over: WHITTENBURG CR

S 35 T 38 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1992 Load: 38.7 t ADT: 6,533

MO 19 S

Good

Over: DRY BR YADKIN CR

S 1 T 39 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1934 Load: 38.7 t ADT: 5,623

RT C E

Good

Over: LIT BOURBEUSE RVR

S 25 T 40 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2021 Load: 39.6 t ADT: 2,210

SAPPINGTON BRG RD

Good

Over: MERAMEC RVR

S 35 T 40 N R 2 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2002 Load: 41.4 t ADT: 15

RT N E

Good

Over: BOURBON RVR

S 3 T 39 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2012 Load: 42.3 t ADT: 1,152

MO 19 S

Good

Over: CROOKED CR

S 27 T 36 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2017 Load: 42.3 t ADT: 534

RT D S

Good

Over: STATE CR

S 27 T 40 N R 2 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1993 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 335

JAKE PRAIRIE RD

Good

Over: BRUSH CR

S 3 T 39 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2006 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 50

RT M S

Good

Over: CROOKED CR

S 36 T 37 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2017 Load: 46.8 t ADT: 415

BLUNT RD

Good

Over: COURTOIS CR

S 3 T 37 N R 2 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2017 Load: 47.7 t ADT: 15

RT V E

Good

Over: HUZZAH CR

S 32 T 36 N R 2 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1998 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 278

THURMAN LAKE RD

Good

Over: MERAMEC RVR

S 27 T 38 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2020 Load: 50.4 t ADT: 15

MO 19 S

Good

Over: WHITTENBURG CR

S 11 T 37 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1995 Load: 50.4 t ADT: 5,623

CAVE RD

Good

Over: MERAMEC RVR

S 35 T 39 N R 3 W, Crawford, MO

Built 1994 Load: 51.3 t ADT: 100

EVANS RD

Good

Over: PLEASANT VALLEY CR

S 2 T 39 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2008 Load: 51.3 t ADT: 50

RT M S

Good

Over: PERKINS BR

S 7 T 37 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2002 Load: 71.1 t ADT: 415

OAK HILL RD

Good

Over: BR OF BRUSH CR

S 1 T 39 N R 5 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2002 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 700

STUEBER RD

Good

Over: TRIB TO L BOURBEUS

S 2 T 39 N R 4 W, Crawford, MO

Built 2010 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 15

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.