Total bridges
90
Public highway bridges in Caswell County
County profile · official public datasets
Caswell County, NC
90 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 58.9% rated Good, 35.6% Fair, 5.6% Poor.
- 90
- Public bridges
- 58.9%
- Good condition
- 5.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Caswell County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- 57th
- of 100 on Poor share
- 5.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 90
- public highway bridges
- 1991
- 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.
Caswell County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Caswell County ranks #57 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.6%). Caswell County, North Carolina contains 90 public highway bridges. Roughly 58.9% are rated “Good,” 35.6% “Fair,” and 5.6% “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
58.9%
53 of 90 rated 7-9
Fair condition
35.6%
32 of 90 rated 5-6
Poor condition
5.6%
5 of 90 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#57 of 100
Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 90 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 58.9% (53)
Fair 35.6% (32)
Poor 5.6% (5)
Caswell County's Poor-condition bridges carry 16,900 vehicle crossings a day
That is 19.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,380 crossings a day against 583 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 90 of 90 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
15.6% of Caswell County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
14 of the 90 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 58.9% 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 50.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
NC86 over HOGANS CREEK, built 1957, carries 8,500 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 16,900 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Caswell County's bridges were built
90 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1930s 3
1930–1939
3 bridges
- 1950s 6
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s 1
1960–1969
1 bridges
- 1970s 7
1970–1979
7 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
13 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
13 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
29 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
14 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 29 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 32.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1991, 5 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.
How Caswell County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Caswell County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.6% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1991 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 7 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bertie County | 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 (this page) | 90 | 58.9% | 35.6% | 5.6% | 1991 |
| Warren County | 84 | 47.6% | 47.6% | 4.8% | 1985 |
| Northampton County | 83 | 31.3% | 65.1% | 3.6% | 1981 |
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 Caswell 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 Caswell County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NC (90 bridges here).
- Greenlee County, AZ · 90 bridges
- Clay County, FL · 90 bridges
- Taylor County, FL · 90 bridges
- Monroe County, GA · 90 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1991 here).
- Denver County, CO · avg 1991 · 458 bridges
- Baldwin County, AL · avg 1991 · 381 bridges
- Rock County, MN · avg 1991 · 265 bridges
- Alcorn County, MS · avg 1991 · 213 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (5)
SR1780
PoorOver: COUNTRY LINE CREEK
0.7 MI. E. JCT. US158, Caswell, NC
Built 1923 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 100
NC86
PoorOver: HOGANS CREEK
1.13 MI. N. JCT. SR1300, Caswell, NC
Built 1957 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 8,500
US158 NC86
PoorOver: COUNTRY LINE CREEK
1.2 MI. E. JCT. NC62, Caswell, NC
Built 1970 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 7,300
NC119
PoorOver: REEDY FORK CREEK
1.0 MI. S. JCT. SR1564, Caswell, NC
Built 1964 Load: 45.3 t ADT: 700
SR1345
PoorOver: WOLF ISLAND CREEK
0.7 MI. E. JCT. SR1343, Caswell, NC
Built 1977 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 300
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