Total bridges
95
Public highway bridges in Bertie County
County profile · official public datasets
Bertie County, NC
95 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 50.5% rated Good, 46.3% Fair, 3.2% Poor.
- 95
- Public bridges
- 50.5%
- Good condition
- 3.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bertie County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 30%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 3.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 95
- public highway bridges
- 1993
- 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.
Bertie County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bertie County ranks #30 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.2%). Bertie County, North Carolina contains 95 public highway bridges. Roughly 50.5% are rated “Good,” 46.3% “Fair,” and 3.2% “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.
Good condition
50.5%
48 of 95 rated 7-9
Fair condition
46.3%
44 of 95 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3.2%
3 of 95 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#30 of 100
Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 95 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 50.5% (48)
Fair 46.3% (44)
Poor 3.2% (3)
Bertie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 10,950 vehicle crossings a day
That is 4.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,650 crossings a day against 2,125 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 95 of 95 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
23.2% of Bertie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
22 of the 95 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 50.5% 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 54.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
NC11 over CASHIE RIVER, built 1971, carries 6,000 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 10,950 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bertie County's bridges were built
95 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
12 bridges
- 1970s 6
1970–1979
6 bridges
- 1980s 4
1980–1989
4 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
23 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
16 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
24 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 24 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 25.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1993, 7 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.
How Bertie County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Bertie County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.2% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1993 against a peer-group mean of 1985 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland County | 101 | 44.6% | 54.5% | 1% | 1983 |
| Lee County | 98 | 57.1% | 42.9% | 0% | 1989 |
| Bertie County (this page) | 95 | 50.5% | 46.3% | 3.2% | 1993 |
| Graham County | 94 | 35.1% | 60.6% | 4.3% | 1979 |
| Davie County | 93 | 33.3% | 62.4% | 4.3% | 1982 |
| Caswell County | 90 | 58.9% | 35.6% | 5.6% | 1991 |
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 Bertie 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 Bertie County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NC (95 bridges here).
- Pike County, AR · 95 bridges
- Camden County, GA · 95 bridges
- Liberty County, GA · 95 bridges
- Fulton County, KY · 95 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1993 here).
- Salt Lake County, UT · avg 1993 · 659 bridges
- Marshall County, MS · avg 1993 · 255 bridges
- Daviess County, IN · avg 1993 · 221 bridges
- Scott County, MN · avg 1993 · 129 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (44)
SR1246
FairOver: EASON SWAMP
1.7 MI.N.JCT.SR1228, Bertie, NC
Built 1977 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 100
SR1246
FairOver: EASON SWAMP
1.75 MI.N.JCT.SR1228, Bertie, NC
Built 1977 Load: 22.6 t ADT: 100
US17
FairOver: CHOWAN RIVER
2.6 MI. N. JCT. SR1501, Bertie, NC
Built 1999 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 9,600
NC42
FairOver: CYPRESS SWAMP
0.5 MI.E.JCT.SR1002, Bertie, NC
Built 1961 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 1,600
US13S US17S
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER OVERFLOW
2.1 MI.S. OF JCT.SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1940 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 5,500
US13S US17S
FairOver: ROQUIST CREEK
0.6 MI.N. OF JCT.SR1105, Bertie, NC
Built 1952 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 11,500
SR1111
FairOver: BR. OF CONIOTT CREEK
0.2 MI S. OF JCT SR1110, Bertie, NC
Built 1959 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 100
SR1225
FairOver: CONNARITSA SWAMP
1.2 MI.S. OF JCT.SR1219, Bertie, NC
Built 1992 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 440
NC11BUS
FairOver: FORT BRANCH
0.2 MI.N.NC305, Bertie, NC
Built 1957 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 1,600
NC42
FairOver: BARBECUE SWAMP
0.4 MI.E. OF JCT.SR1314, Bertie, NC
Built 1920 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 2,300
NC42
FairOver: CHINKAPIN SWAMP
1.2 MI.W. OF JCT.NC45, Bertie, NC
Built 1920 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 1,600
US13
FairOver: WHITE OAK SWAMP
2.7MI. N. JCT. NC305, Bertie, NC
Built 1939 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 3,500
SR1257
FairOver: CASHIE RIVER
.09 MI.N. OF JCT. SR1260, Bertie, NC
Built 1975 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 1,500
NC45
FairOver: EASTMOST SWAMP
0.2 MI N JCT SR1355, Bertie, NC
Built 1967 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 1,300
US17 NC308
FairOver: CASHIE RIVER
1 MI. N. OF JCT. US13BYP, Bertie, NC
Built 2012 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 6,500
SR1235
FairOver: STONEY CREEK
0.9 MI.W.JCT.SR1236, Bertie, NC
Built 2012 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 850
US13N US17N
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER
3.6 MI.S.JCT.SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1990 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 5,750
US13N US17N
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER OVER
3.0 MI S. OF JCT SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1968 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 5,500
US13S US17S
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER
3.6 MI.S.JCT.SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1992 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 5,750
US13N US17N
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER OVER
2.5MI.S. OF JCT.SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1968 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,500
US13 17N
FairOver: CONINE CREEK
1.6 MI.S. OF JCT.SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1968 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,500
NC308
FairOver: SPRING BRANCH
0.5 MI W JCT NC45, Bertie, NC
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 700
US13 17 N
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER OVER.
0.5 MI. S. OF JCT. SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1968 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,500
US13N US17N
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER OVERFLOW
3.3 MI.S. OF SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1990 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 6,000
NC11 NC42
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER OVER
0.1 MI.S.JCT.SR1126, Bertie, NC
Built 1966 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 5,400
SR1100
FairOver: ROQUIST CREEK
0.5 MI. E. JCT. SR1104, Bertie, NC
Built 2010 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 750
US13N US17N
FairOver: ROANOAKE RIVER OVERFLOW
3.5 MI.S. OF SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1990 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 6,000
US13S US17S
FairOver: ROANOKE RIVER OVERFLOW
3.5 MI.S.JCT.SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1992 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 6,000
SR1112
FairOver: ROQUIST CREEK
0.3 MI.S. OF SR1113, Bertie, NC
Built 2013 Load: 47.1 t ADT: 310
SR1260
FairOver: CASHIE RIVER
0.3 MI.S. OF JCT.SR1221, Bertie, NC
Built 2010 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 440
US13S US17S
FairOver: CONINE CREEK
2. MI.S. OF JCT. SR1521, Bertie, NC
Built 1985 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 5,500
SR1219
FairOver: CASHIE RIVER
1.0 MI. E. JCT. NC308, Bertie, NC
Built 2006 Load: 49.8 t ADT: 340
NC308
FairOver: WADING PLACE CREEK
0.1 MI E JCT SR1544, Bertie, NC
Built 1982 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 2,200
NC308
FairOver: SANDY RUN
0.8 MI.W. OF SR1139, Bertie, NC
Built 1990 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 2,100
NC45
FairOver: CASHOKE CREEK
0.05 MI.N.JCT NC308, Bertie, NC
Built 1967 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 2,700
SR1221
FairOver: CONNARITSA SWAMP
0.3 MI.N. OF JCT.SR1245, Bertie, NC
Built 2011 Load: 58.9 t ADT: 410
SR1135
FairOver: SWAMP
1.7 MI.E. SR1136, Bertie, NC
Built 1990 Load: 69.8 t ADT: 250
SR1116
FairOver: BR. OF ROQUIST CREEK
0.6 MI.S. OF JCT. NC308, Bertie, NC
Built 1997 Load: 73.4 t ADT: 40
SR1314
FairOver: CYPRESS SWAMP
0.9 MI.W.JCT SR1339, Bertie, NC
Built 1994 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 260
SR1367
FairOver: CYPRESS SWAMP
1.4 MI.N. OF JCT.SR1342, Bertie, NC
Built 1992 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100
SR1356
FairOver: EASTMOST SWAMP
0.7 MI. W. JCT NC 45, Bertie, NC
Built 1990 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 40
SR1387
FairOver: CRICKET SWAMP
0.9 MI.W. OF JCT.SR1355, Bertie, NC
Built 1990 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 120
SR1301
FairOver: CUCKLEMAKER CREEK
.07 MI.E. OF JCT.SR1304, Bertie, NC
Built 1969 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 940
SR1540
FairOver: SWAMP
.03 MI. E. JCT. NC45, Bertie, NC
Built 1970 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 600
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