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Pershing County, NV

52 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 42.3% rated Good, 57.7% Fair, 0% Poor.

52
Public bridges: 42.3%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 13%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 52
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.

Pershing County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pershing County ranks #2 of 16 Nevada counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Pershing County, Nevada contains 52 public highway bridges. Roughly 42.3% are rated “Good,” 57.7% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Pershing County

Good condition

42.3%

22 of 52 rated 7-9

Fair condition

57.7%

30 of 52 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 52 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#2 of 16

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

Condition distribution

Share of 52 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

42.3% (22)

Fair

57.7% (30)

Poor

0% (0)

59.6% of Pershing County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

31 of the 52 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 42.3% 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.

1900s

1
1930s

1
1960s

25
1970s

11
1980s

8
1990s

2
2000s

2
2010s

1
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 25 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 48.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 16 years older than the Nevada average of 1988.

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

The 5 Nevada counties nearest Pershing 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 1972 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 8 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Pershing County and the 5 Nevada counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Churchill County	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 (this page)	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 Pershing 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 Pershing County, both outside Nevada so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NV (52 bridges here).

Copper River County, AK · 52 bridges
McDuffie County, GA · 52 bridges
Terrell County, GA · 52 bridges
Tensas County, LA · 52 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.

All 52 Good 22 Fair 30 Poor 0

All bridges (52)

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Pershing County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

59.6% of Pershing County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Pershing 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

All bridges (52)

SR 856

I 80E

I 80

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TUNGSTEN RD

I 80E

I 80E

I 80W

I 80

I 80E

I 80W

I 80E

I 80W

SR396 CORNELL AV

DERBY RD

SR401 RYE PATCH D

I 80E

I 80W

CROSS ROAD

I 80W

TUNGSTEN RD

I 80E

I 80W

I 80E

I 80W

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SR856 AIRPORT RD

I 80W

SR856 AIRPORT RD

I 80E

I 80W

IRISH AMERICAN RD

I 80E

I 80W

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I 80W

I 80

I 80E

I 80E

I 80W

I 80E

I 80W

I 80

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CALLAHAN ROAD

DUNCAN RD

SR396 UPPER VALLEY

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