Total bridges
25
Public highway bridges in Eureka County
County profile · official public datasets
Eureka County, NV
25 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 28% rated Good, 72% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 25
- Public bridges
- 28%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Eureka 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 31%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 25
- 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.
Eureka County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Eureka County ranks #5 of 16 Nevada counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Eureka County, Nevada contains 25 public highway bridges. Roughly 28% are rated “Good,” 72% “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.
Good condition
28%
7 of 25 rated 7-9
Fair condition
72%
18 of 25 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 25 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#5 of 16
Among Nevada counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 25 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 28% (7)
Fair 72% (18)
Poor 0% (0)
76% of Eureka County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
19 of the 25 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% 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.
When Eureka County's bridges were built
25 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
12 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2010s 2
2010–2019
2 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 12 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 48% 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, 18 years older than the Nevada average of 1988.
How Eureka County compares with Nevada's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Nevada counties nearest Eureka County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1970 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 11 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 15 Nevada counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carson City County | 31 | 87.1% | 12.9% | 0% | 2003 |
| Eureka County (this page) | 25 | 28% | 72% | 0% | 1970 |
| Lander County | 21 | 33.3% | 66.7% | 0% | 1973 |
| Nye County | 21 | 57.1% | 42.9% | 0% | 1963 |
| Lincoln County | 12 | 75% | 25% | 0% | 1972 |
| Storey County | 10 | 20% | 50% | 30% | 1995 |
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 Eureka 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 Eureka County, both outside Nevada so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NV (25 bridges here).
- Kodiak Island County, AK · 25 bridges
- Schley County, GA · 25 bridges
- Lane County, KS · 25 bridges
- Benzie County, MI · 25 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NV (1970 here).
- Hamilton County, OH · avg 1970 · 783 bridges
- Yavapai County, AZ · avg 1970 · 543 bridges
- Garfield County, OK · avg 1970 · 504 bridges
- San Luis Obispo County, CA · avg 1970 · 401 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (0)
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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.