Total bridges
12
Public highway bridges in Lincoln County
County profile · official public datasets
Lincoln County, NV
12 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 75% rated Good, 25% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 12
- Public bridges
- 75%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lincoln 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 50%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 12
- public highway bridges
- 1972
- 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.
Lincoln County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lincoln County ranks #8 of 16 Nevada counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Lincoln County, Nevada contains 12 public highway bridges. Roughly 75% are rated “Good,” 25% “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
75%
9 of 12 rated 7-9
Fair condition
25%
3 of 12 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 12 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#8 of 16
Among Nevada counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 12 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 75% (9)
Fair 25% (3)
Poor 0% (0)
50% of Lincoln County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
6 of the 12 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 75% 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 Lincoln County's bridges were built
12 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
3 bridges
- 1990s 1
1990–1999
1 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 3 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 25% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 16 years older than the Nevada average of 1988.
How Lincoln County compares with Nevada's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Nevada counties nearest Lincoln County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1972 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 6 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 15 Nevada counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lander County | 21 | 33.3% | 66.7% | 0% | 1973 |
| Nye County | 21 | 57.1% | 42.9% | 0% | 1963 |
| Lincoln County (this page) | 12 | 75% | 25% | 0% | 1972 |
| Storey County | 10 | 20% | 50% | 30% | 1995 |
| Mineral County | 7 | 42.9% | 57.1% | 0% | 1985 |
| White Pine County | 5 | 20% | 80% | 0% | 1973 |
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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln County, both outside Nevada so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NV (12 bridges here).
- Keweenaw County, MI · 12 bridges
- Santa Isabel County, PR · 12 bridges
- Trujillo Alto County, PR · 12 bridges
- Northampton County, VA · 12 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NV (1972 here).
- Santa Clara County, CA · avg 1972 · 964 bridges
- Madison County, AL · avg 1972 · 710 bridges
- Kern County, CA · avg 1972 · 668 bridges
- York County, PA · avg 1972 · 569 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (3)
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Related
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainBridges
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.