Total bridges
21
Public highway bridges in Nye County
County profile · official public datasets
Nye County, NV
21 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 57.1% rated Good, 42.9% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 21
- Public bridges
- 57.1%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Nye 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 44%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 21
- public highway bridges
- 1963
- 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.
Nye County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Nye County ranks #7 of 16 Nevada counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Nye County, Nevada contains 21 public highway bridges. Roughly 57.1% are rated “Good,” 42.9% “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
57.1%
12 of 21 rated 7-9
Fair condition
42.9%
9 of 21 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 21 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#7 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 57.1% (12)
Fair 42.9% (9)
Poor 0% (0)
85.7% of Nye County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
18 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 57.1% 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 Nye County's bridges were built
21 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 3
1930–1939
3 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
4 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
8 bridges
- 1970s 2
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s 1
1980–1989
1 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 8 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 38.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1963, 25 years older than the Nevada average of 1988.
How Nye County compares with Nevada's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Nevada counties nearest Nye 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 1963 against a peer-group mean of 1983 is 20 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 |
| Lander County | 21 | 33.3% | 66.7% | 0% | 1973 |
| Nye County (this page) | 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 Nye 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 Nye 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 (1963 here).
- Worcester County, MA · avg 1963 · 1,014 bridges
- Honolulu County, HI · avg 1963 · 682 bridges
- Chester County, PA · avg 1963 · 680 bridges
- Essex County, NJ · avg 1963 · 505 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (21)
SR361 GABBS VLY
FairOver: LETTS WASH
SOUTH OF GABBS, Nye, NV
Built 1942 Load: 19.6 t ADT: 370
US 6
FairOver: WILLOW CRK
WEST OF WARM SPRINGS, Nye, NV
Built 1936 Load: 20.9 t ADT: 450
SR361 GABBS VLY
FairOver: QUARTZ WASH
NORTH OF GABBS, Nye, NV
Built 1953 Load: 27.8 t ADT: 380
IRR BIA RTE 2
FairOver: REESE RIVER
73 KM SE OF AUSTIN NEVADA, Nye, NV
Built 1984 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 30
US 95N
FairOver: CROSS ROAD
SOUTH OF MERCURY, Nye, NV
Built 1963 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 2,425
US 95S
FairOver: CROSS ROAD
SOUTH OF MERCURY, Nye, NV
Built 1963 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 2,425
US 95
FairOver: AMARGOSA RVR
BEATTY, Nye, NV
Built 1956 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 4,300
US 95
FairOver: AMARGOSA RIVER
SOUTH OF BEATTY, Nye, NV
Built 1956 Load: 35.8 t ADT: 3,400
US 6
FairOver: SAND SPRINGS WASH
EAST OF WARM SPRINGS, Nye, NV
Built 1936 Load: 38.4 t ADT: 220
US 95
GoodOver: SARCOBATUS WASH
NEAR BEATTY, Nye, NV
Built 1961 Load: 23.1 t ADT: 3,050
US 95
GoodOver: DRY WASH
NORTH OF BEATTY, Nye, NV
Built 1956 Load: 26.4 t ADT: 4,300
SR 318
GoodOver: SILVER KING WASH
NORTH OF HIKO, Nye, NV
Built 1970 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 1,650
IRR BIA ROUTE 213
GoodOver: REESE RIVER
0.8 KM EAST OF NV HWY 21, Nye, NV
Built 2001 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 15
US 95
GoodOver: CLARKDALE WASH
NEAR BEATTY, Nye, NV
Built 1961 Load: 34.9 t ADT: 2,750
US 95
GoodOver: DRY WASH
NORTH OF LAS VEGAS, Nye, NV
Built 1964 Load: 34.9 t ADT: 3,850
US6
GoodOver: Ralston Wash
2.2m E of Tonopah, Nye, NV
Built 2023 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 1,350
US 95
GoodOver: DRY WASH
NORTH OF LAS VEGAS, Nye, NV
Built 1963 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 2,425
US 95
GoodOver: DRY WASH
NORTH OF LAS VEGAS, Nye, NV
Built 1963 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 2,425
ADAVEN RD
GoodOver: SIDEHILL GAP
EAST OF ADAVEN, Nye, NV
Built 1932 Load: 50.9 t ADT: 24
US 95
GoodOver: ALKALI WASH
NORTH OF BEATTY, Nye, NV
Built 1970 Load: 57.0 t ADT: 3,050
US 95
GoodOver: DRY WASH
NORTH OF LAS VEGAS, Nye, NV
Built 1964 Load: 65.9 t ADT: 3,850
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