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Pike County, MO

225 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 34.7% rated Good, 56.9% Fair, 8.4% Poor.

225
Public bridges
34.7%
Good condition
8.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 49%
lowest Poor share in state
8.4%
Poor-condition share
225
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.

Pike County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pike County ranks #56 of 115 Missouri counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.4%). Pike County, Missouri contains 225 public highway bridges. Roughly 34.7% are rated “Good,” 56.9% “Fair,” and 8.4% “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

225

Public highway bridges in Pike County

Good condition

34.7%

78 of 225 rated 7-9

Fair condition

56.9%

128 of 225 rated 5-6

Poor condition

8.4%

19 of 225 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#56 of 115

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

Condition distribution

Share of 225 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
34.7% (78)
Fair
56.9% (128)
Poor
8.4% (19)

Pike County's Poor-condition bridges carry 11,179 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 588 crossings a day against 1,304 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 225 of 225 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

30.2% of Pike County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

68 of the 225 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 34.7% 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 75.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

GEORGIA ST over TOWN BR, built 1950, carries 8,400 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 19-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 11,179 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

225 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 39 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Missouri average (1979).

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

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

The 5 Missouri counties nearest Pike County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.4% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Pike County and the 5 Missouri counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Saline County 230 13%
Butler County 227 8.4%
Cole County 227 8.8%
Pike County (this page) 225 8.4%
Sullivan County 224 7.1%
Daviess County 222 24.3%

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 Missouri so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MO (225 bridges here).

Similar average build year

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

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

All 225 Good 78 Fair 128 Poor 19

All bridges (225)

MO 79 S

Good

Over: FOX CR

S 27 T 53 N R 1 E, Pike, MO

Built 2018 Load: 54.0 t ADT: 686

US 61 S

Good

Over: CRD 292

S 24 T 53 N R 3 W, Pike, MO

Built 1996 Load: 57.6 t ADT: 6,207

RT O S

Good

Over: BIG LEAD CR

S 34 T 51 N R 3 W, Pike, MO

Built 2007 Load: 58.5 t ADT: 183

US 54 E

Good

Over: NOIX CR

S 8 T 53 N R 2 W, Pike, MO

Built 2012 Load: 58.5 t ADT: 5,755

US 54 E

Good

Over: N FK NIOX CR

S 34 T 54 N R 2 W, Pike, MO

Built 2012 Load: 62.1 t ADT: 5,755

COUNTY RD 318

Good

Over: E SULPHUR CR

S 30 T 52 N R 2 W, Pike, MO

Built 2017 Load: 81.9 t ADT: 50

COUNTY RD 439

Poor

Over: SHADY CR

S 24 T 52 N R 5 W, Pike, MO

Built 1900 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 5

COUNTY RD 033

Poor

Over: BR OF SPENCER CR

S 8 T 53 N R 4 W, Pike, MO

Built 1900 Load: 7.2 t ADT: 10

MARYLAND ST

Poor

Over: TOWN CR

S 19 T 54 N R 1 W, Pike, MO

Built 1920 Load: 7.2 t ADT: 150

COUNTY RD 049

Poor

Over: LIT PENO CR

S 11 T 54 N R 4 W, Pike, MO

Built 1900 Load: 8.1 t ADT: 60

COUNTY RD 254

Poor

Over: CREEK

S 19 T 53 N R 1 W, Pike, MO

Built 1900 Load: 8.1 t ADT: 50

COUNTY RD 135

Poor

Over: GRASSY CR

S 9 T 54 N R 2 W, Pike, MO

Built 1935 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 50

5TH & TENNESSEE ST

Poor

Over: TOWN BR

S 18 T 54 N R 1 W, Pike, MO

Built 1930 Load: 9.9 t ADT: 800

RT W S

Poor

Over: LIT RAMSEY CR

S 16 T 52 N R 1 E, Pike, MO

Built 1953 Load: 11.7 t ADT: 215

GEORGIA ST

Poor

Over: TOWN BR

S 24 T 54 N R 2 W, Pike, MO

Built 1950 Load: 14.4 t ADT: 8,400

COUNTY RD 295

Poor

Over: GUINS CR

S 34 T 52 N R 1 W, Pike, MO

Built 1930 Load: 14.4 t ADT: 5

RT B E

Poor

Over: PENO CR

S 35 T 55 N R 4 W, Pike, MO

Built 1948 Load: 14.4 t ADT: 557

COUNTY RD 317

Poor

Over: W SULPHUR CR

S 1818 T 52 N R 3 W, Pike, MO

Built 1900 Load: 18.0 t ADT: 5

COUNTY RD 031

Poor

Over: CREEK

S 18 T 53 N R 4 W, Pike, MO

Built 1900 Load: 20.7 t ADT: 35

COUNTY RD 245

Poor

Over: BRANCH

S 11 T 53 N R 1 W, Pike, MO

Built 1955 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 50

6TH & KENTUCKY ST

Poor

Over: TOWN CR

S 18 T 54 N R 1 W, Pike, MO

Built 1930 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 500

COUNTY RD 277

Poor

Over: LIT BUFFALO CR

S 15 T 53 N R 3 W, Pike, MO

Built 1982 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 35

OR 61 S

Poor

Over: PENO CR

S 1 T 54 N R 4 W, Pike, MO

Built 1949 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 117

COUNTY RD 135

Poor

Over: BR OF GRASSY CR

S 19 T 54 N R 2 W, Pike, MO

Built 1993 Load: 29.7 t ADT: 35

COUNTY RD 252

Poor

Over: LIT BUFFALO CR

S 6 T 53 N R 1 W, Pike, MO

Built 1988 Load: 35.1 t ADT: 100

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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.