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Montgomery County, NY

205 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 34.6% rated Good, 54.1% Fair, 11.2% Poor.

205
Public bridges: 34.6%
Good condition: 11.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Montgomery County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

42nd
of 62 on Poor share: 11.2%
Poor-condition share: 205
public highway bridges: 1965
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.

Montgomery County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Montgomery County ranks #42 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 11.2%). Montgomery County, New York contains 205 public highway bridges. Roughly 34.6% are rated “Good,” 54.1% “Fair,” and 11.2% “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

205

Public highway bridges in Montgomery County

Good condition

34.6%

71 of 205 rated 7-9

Fair condition

54.1%

111 of 205 rated 5-6

Poor condition

11.2%

23 of 205 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#42 of 62

Among New York counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 205 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

34.6% (71)

Fair

54.1% (111)

Poor

11.2% (23)

Montgomery County's Poor-condition bridges carry 66,649 vehicle crossings a day

That is 8.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,030 crossings a day against 3,473 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.

Computed over the 203 of 205 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

60.5% of Montgomery County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

124 of the 205 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 34.6% 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.

One structure carries 31.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

RTE I90 over PED/BIKE PATH, built 1955, carries 20,908 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 23-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 66,649 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

2
1900s

10
1910s

5
1920s

4
1930s

44
1940s

2
1950s

35
1960s

15
1970s

15
1980s

12
1990s

13
2000s

34
2010s

13
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 44 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1965, 7 years older than the New York average of 1972.

How Montgomery County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 New York counties nearest Montgomery County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 11.2% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1965 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 10 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Montgomery County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Tioga County	220	38.6%	52.3%	9.1%	1976
Montgomery County (this page)	205	34.6%	54.1%	11.2%	1965
Clinton County	201	39.3%	48.3%	12.4%	1979
Tompkins County	192	38.5%	46.9%	14.6%	1973
Cortland County	189	33.3%	49.7%	16.9%	1974
Franklin County	189	47.6%	40.7%	11.6%	1975

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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (205 bridges here).

Geneva County, AL · 205 bridges
Russell County, AL · 205 bridges
Wilson County, KS · 205 bridges
Bell County, KY · 205 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1965 here).

Windsor County, VT · avg 1965 · 483 bridges
Bedford County, PA · avg 1965 · 417 bridges
Crawford County, PA · avg 1965 · 399 bridges
Harper County, KS · avg 1965 · 372 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 205 Good 71 Fair 111 Poor 23

Fair-condition bridges (111)

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Montgomery County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Montgomery County's Poor-condition bridges carry 66,649 vehicle crossings a day

60.5% of Montgomery County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 31.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Montgomery County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (111)

SECOND AVENUE

OLD SHARON ROAD

MAPLETOWN RD

RTE 30

RTE 30

BULLS HEAD ROAD

PATTERSONVILLE RD

RTE I90

RTE I90

RTE 30A

RTE 80

CANAJOHARIE INTERC

RTE I90

RTE 5S

RTE I90

RTE 30

RTE I90

RTE 5S

RTE 80

RTE I90

RTE 5

FLORIDA AVE

RTE 10

RTE 10

RTE 30

RTE 5

SPRING STREET

MAC PHAIL ROAD

CRANES HOLLOW ROAD

SOUTH PAWLING ST

CRANES HOLLOW RD

RTE I90

RTE 5S

RTE 5S

RTE 162

CR127 BURTONVILLE

CRESCENT AVENUE

HUGHES ROAD

CRANES HOLLOW RD

RTE I90

CLAY HILL ROAD

BRIDGE STREET

FORT HUNTER ROAD

RTE 5S

RTE 30

RTE 161

RAMP NY 5 EB TO NY

CRANES HOLLOW RD

RTE 162

OSWEGATCHIE RD

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