Total bridges
104
Public highway bridges in Putnam County
County profile · official public datasets
Putnam County, NY
104 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 15.4% rated Good, 73.1% Fair, 11.5% Poor.
- 104
- Public bridges
- 15.4%
- Good condition
- 11.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Putnam 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.
- 44th
- of 62 on Poor share
- 11.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 104
- public highway bridges
- 1964
- 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.
Putnam County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Putnam County ranks #44 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 11.5%). Putnam County, New York contains 104 public highway bridges. Roughly 15.4% are rated “Good,” 73.1% “Fair,” and 11.5% “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
15.4%
16 of 104 rated 7-9
Fair condition
73.1%
76 of 104 rated 5-6
Poor condition
11.5%
12 of 104 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#44 of 62
Among New York counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 104 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 15.4% (16)
Fair 73.1% (76)
Poor 11.5% (12)
Putnam County's Poor-condition bridges carry 106,905 vehicle crossings a day
That is 8.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 11.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 8,909 crossings a day against 9,221 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 103 of 104 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
73.1% of Putnam County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
76 of the 104 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 15.4% 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 28.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
RTE I84 over MNRR BE LINE, built 1968, carries 30,039 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 106,905 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Putnam County's bridges were built
104 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 4
1900–1909
4 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 8
1920–1929
8 bridges
- 1930s 15
1930–1939
15 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s 6
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
38 bridges
- 1970s 4
1970–1979
4 bridges
- 1980s 5
1980–1989
5 bridges
- 1990s 8
1990–1999
8 bridges
- 2000s 5
2000–2009
5 bridges
- 2010s 4
2010–2019
4 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 38 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 36.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1964, 8 years older than the New York average of 1972.
How Putnam County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 New York counties nearest Putnam County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 11.5% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1964 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is 8 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schenectady County | 115 | 32.2% | 60% | 7.8% | 1977 |
| Putnam County (this page) | 104 | 15.4% | 73.1% | 11.5% | 1964 |
| Schuyler County | 100 | 40% | 55% | 5% | 1983 |
| Fulton County | 98 | 34.7% | 50% | 15.3% | 1958 |
| Wayne County | 97 | 48.5% | 41.2% | 10.3% | 1974 |
| Hamilton County | 88 | 34.1% | 51.1% | 14.8% | 1970 |
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 Putnam 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 Putnam County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NY (104 bridges here).
- Nassau County, FL · 104 bridges
- Brooks County, GA · 104 bridges
- Grady County, GA · 104 bridges
- Bonner County, ID · 104 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1964 here).
- Bergen County, NJ · avg 1964 · 577 bridges
- Morris County, NJ · avg 1964 · 508 bridges
- Baltimore city County, MD · avg 1964 · 374 bridges
- Ross County, OH · avg 1964 · 356 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (12)
PEEKSKILL HOLLOW
PoorOver: PEEKSKILL HOLLOW CREEK
3.5 MI N OF SHRUB OAK, Putnam, NY
Built 1940 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 2,068
SPROUT BROOK ROAD
PoorOver: CANOPUS CREEK
3.7 MI NE OF PEEKSKILL, Putnam, NY
Built 1935 Load: 10.0 t ADT: 1,867
HORTON HOLLOW ROAD
PoorOver: CANOPUS CREEK
1.5 MI SW OF OSCAWANA L, Putnam, NY
Built 1930 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 178
OSCAWANNA LAKE RD
PoorOver: PEEKSKLL HOLLW CK
2.9 MI W OF SHRUB OAK, Putnam, NY
Built 1964 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 8,557
LUNN TERRACE
PoorOver: MNRR HU LINE
At Cold Spring MNRR Sta, Putnam, NY
Built 1930 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 1,078
RTE I84
PoorOver: LUDINGTONVILLE RD
I84 INT 58, Putnam, NY
Built 1969 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 27,488
RTE I84
PoorOver: MNRR BE LINE
0.9 MI E I84 INT 19, Putnam, NY
Built 1968 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 30,039
RTE I84
PoorOver: Maybrook Trailway MNRR
0.9 MI E I84 INT 65, Putnam, NY
Built 1968 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 23,829
DOANSBURG RD
PoorOver: E BRANCH CROTON R
4.5 MI.NW OF BREWSTER, Putnam, NY
Built 1978 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 6,546
MOONEY HILL ROAD
PoorOver: Maybrook Trailway MNRR
1.2 MILES SE OF HOLMES, Putnam, NY
Built 1988 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 865
PEEKSKILL HOLLOW R
PoorOver: PEEKSKILL HOLLOW CREEK
2.4 MI NW OF SHRUB OAK, Putnam, NY
Built 1959 Load: 61.7 t ADT: 3,923
BRIMSTONE ROAD
PoorOver: HAVILAND HLLW BRK
3.3 MILES SE OF PATTERSON, Putnam, NY
Built 1938 Load: 80.7 t ADT: 467
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