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Churchill County, NV

70 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 51.4% rated Good, 48.6% Fair, 0% Poor.

70
Public bridges: 51.4%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Churchill County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 6%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 70
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.

Churchill County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Churchill County ranks #1 of 16 Nevada counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Churchill County, Nevada contains 70 public highway bridges. Roughly 51.4% are rated “Good,” 48.6% “Fair,” and 0% “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

Public highway bridges in Churchill County

Good condition

51.4%

36 of 70 rated 7-9

Fair condition

48.6%

34 of 70 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 70 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#1 of 16

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

Condition distribution

Share of 70 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

51.4% (36)

Fair

48.6% (34)

Poor

0% (0)

40% of Churchill County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

28 of the 70 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 51.4% 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.

1930s

3
1940s

3
1950s

11
1960s

10
1970s

2
1980s

16
1990s

4
2000s

9
2010s

12

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 16 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1981, 7 years older than the Nevada average of 1988.

How Churchill County compares with Nevada's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Nevada counties nearest Churchill County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 15 Nevada counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Churchill County and the 5 Nevada counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Churchill County (this page)	70	51.4%	48.6%	0%	1981
Humboldt County	54	33.3%	63%	3.7%	1970
Lyon County	53	56.6%	35.8%	7.5%	1975
Pershing County	52	42.3%	57.7%	0%	1972
Douglas County	42	59.5%	40.5%	0%	1971
Carson City County	31	87.1%	12.9%	0%	2003

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NV (70 bridges here).

Jefferson County, FL · 70 bridges
Jasper County, GA · 70 bridges
Treutlen County, GA · 70 bridges
Turner County, GA · 70 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NV (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 70 Good 36 Fair 34 Poor 0

Fair-condition bridges (34)

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Churchill County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

40% of Churchill County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Churchill County compares with Nevada's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (34)

TARZYN ROAD

CEMETERY ROAD

VENTURACCI ROAD

Casey Road

STATE PARK ROAD

Farm District Road

US 50

IRR SR116 STILLWTR

US 95

US 50

US 50

FIRST STREET

EAST COUNTY ROAD

SR722 CARROLL SUMM

BIA IRR RTE 191

IRR SR116 STILLWTR

US 50

US 50

US 50

SR718 LONETREE RD

IRR SR116 STILLWTR

FRAZZINI WY

SR 715/MCLEAN LN

I 80W

SR 117/SHECKLER RD

SR117 SHECKLER RD

I 80E

I 80W

I 80E

I 80W

US 50

US 95

US 50

CASEY ROAD

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