Total bridges
21
Public highway bridges in Lander County
County profile · official public datasets
Lander County, NV
21 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 33.3% rated Good, 66.7% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 21
- Public bridges
- 33.3%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lander 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 38%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 21
- public highway bridges
- 1973
- 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.
Lander County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lander County ranks #6 of 16 Nevada counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Lander County, Nevada contains 21 public highway bridges. Roughly 33.3% are rated “Good,” 66.7% “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
33.3%
7 of 21 rated 7-9
Fair condition
66.7%
14 of 21 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 21 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#6 of 16
Among Nevada counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 21 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 33.3% (7)
Fair 66.7% (14)
Poor 0% (0)
42.9% of Lander County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
9 of the 21 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 33.3% 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 Lander County's bridges were built
21 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 2
1950–1959
2 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
6 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
6 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
3 bridges
- 1990s 2
1990–1999
2 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 6 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1973, 15 years older than the Nevada average of 1988.
How Lander County compares with Nevada's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Nevada counties nearest Lander County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 8 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 | 25 | 28% | 72% | 0% | 1970 |
| Nye County | 21 | 57.1% | 42.9% | 0% | 1963 |
| Lander County (this page) | 21 | 33.3% | 66.7% | 0% | 1973 |
| 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 Lander 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 Lander County, both outside Nevada so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NV (21 bridges here).
- Clay County, GA · 21 bridges
- Lewis County, ID · 21 bridges
- Stanton County, KS · 21 bridges
- Montmorency County, MI · 21 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NV (1973 here).
- Jefferson County, AL · avg 1973 · 1,068 bridges
- Erie County, NY · avg 1973 · 906 bridges
- Davidson County, TN · avg 1973 · 832 bridges
- Lancaster County, PA · avg 1973 · 801 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (7)
SR722 CARROLL SMT
GoodOver: REESE RVR
SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN, Lander, NV
Built 1948 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 60
SR 806
GoodOver: REESE RVR
NORTHWEST OF BATTLE MTN., Lander, NV
Built 1962 Load: 33.1 t ADT: 230
SR305 BROAD ST
GoodOver: I 80
BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Lander, NV
Built 1976 Load: 38.8 t ADT: 3,000
SR 806/N.BATT M RD
GoodOver: HUMBOLDT RIVER
NORTH OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Lander, NV
Built 2000 Load: 39.5 t ADT: 230
SR304 FRONT ST
GoodOver: I 80
BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Lander, NV
Built 1976 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,000
SR304 FRONT ST
GoodOver: I 80
BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Lander, NV
Built 1976 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,600
SR304 FRONT ST
GoodOver: REESE RVR
EAST OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Lander, NV
Built 1994 Load: 43.7 t ADT: 1,600
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