Total bridges
348
Public highway bridges in Cumberland County
County profile · official public datasets
Cumberland County, NC
348 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 67.2% rated Good, 31.9% Fair, 0.9% Poor.
- 348
- Public bridges
- 67.2%
- Good condition
- 0.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Cumberland County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 4%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 348
- public highway bridges
- 1992
- 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.
Cumberland County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cumberland County ranks #4 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.9%). Cumberland County, North Carolina contains 348 public highway bridges. Roughly 67.2% are rated “Good,” 31.9% “Fair,” and 0.9% “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
67.2%
234 of 348 rated 7-9
Fair condition
31.9%
111 of 348 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.9%
3 of 348 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#4 of 100
Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 348 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 67.2% (234)
Fair 31.9% (111)
Poor 0.9% (3)
Cumberland County's Poor-condition bridges carry 132 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 44 crossings a day against 10,361 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 347 of 348 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
19.8% of Cumberland County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
69 of the 348 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 67.2% 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 98.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR2046 over TURNBULL CREEK, built 1993, carries 130 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 132 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Cumberland County's bridges were built
348 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s 6
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s 27
1950–1959
27 bridges
- 1960s 14
1960–1969
14 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
66 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
35 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
47 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
41 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
76 bridges
- 2020s
2020–2029
31 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 76 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1992, 6 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.
How Cumberland County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Cumberland County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.9% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1992 against a peer-group mean of 1986 is 6 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union County | 353 | 46.5% | 49.3% | 4.2% | 1991 |
| Wilkes County | 349 | 32.1% | 53.3% | 14.6% | 1983 |
| Cumberland County (this page) | 348 | 67.2% | 31.9% | 0.9% | 1992 |
| Davidson County | 340 | 42.9% | 52.9% | 4.1% | 1988 |
| Iredell County | 335 | 35.2% | 54.6% | 10.1% | 1981 |
| Johnston County | 318 | 42.1% | 53.5% | 4.4% | 1989 |
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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NC (348 bridges here).
- Fillmore County, MN · 348 bridges
- Mahoning County, OH · 348 bridges
- Cumberland County, PA · 348 bridges
- Pennington County, SD · 348 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1992 here).
- Johnson County, KS · avg 1992 · 781 bridges
- Benton County, AR · avg 1992 · 410 bridges
- Nodaway County, MO · avg 1992 · 396 bridges
- Cameron County, TX · avg 1992 · 355 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (348)
SR2228
FairOver: HARRISONS CREEK
0.3 MI.W.JCT.SR2226, Cumberland, NC
Built 1988 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100
SR1850
FairOver: BUCK CREEK
0.7 MI.N. JCT.NC24, Cumberland, NC
Built 1983 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 1,100
SR2028
FairOver: GUM SWAMP
0.7 MI.S. JCT.SR2027, Cumberland, NC
Built 1986 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 190
SR1710
FairOver: CR. OFF CAPE FEAR RIV.
1.0 MI W. JCT SR1609, Cumberland, NC
Built 1980 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 310
SR1722
FairOver: FLAT SWAMP DITCH
0.1MI. W. JCT. SR1725, Cumberland, NC
Built 1983 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 1,100
SR1720
FairOver: GUM LOG CANAL
0.1 MI.N.JCT SR1721, Cumberland, NC
Built 1985 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 140
SR1720
FairOver: CREEK
60 FT.W.JCT.SR1719, Cumberland, NC
Built 1993 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100
SR1844
FairOver: BUCK CREEK
0.6 MI. N. OF JCT. NC24, Cumberland, NC
Built 1991 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 800
SR2037
FairOver: BEAVER DAM CREEK
0.7 MI.N. JCT.NC210, Cumberland, NC
Built 1986 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 1,300
SR1725
FairOver: GUM LOG CANAL
100 S. OF JCT.SR1797, Cumberland, NC
Built 1960 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 340
CHICKEN ROAD
FairOver: BONES CREEK
PU 784 843, Cumberland, NC
Built 1955 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 1,000
US301
GoodOver: BLACK RIVER OVERFLOW
0.1 MI N JCT SR1803, Cumberland, NC
Built 1918 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 2,500
NC87N
GoodOver: I95BUS US301
0.5 MI.S.JCT.SR2311, Cumberland, NC
Built 1997 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 9,750
SR1838
GoodOver: REESE CREEK
.1 MI.N.JCT.SR1835, Cumberland, NC
Built 2010 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 3,500
I95BUS.LOOP/US301N
GoodOver: ROCKFISH CREEK
0.2 MI. N. JCT. SR2220, Cumberland, NC
Built 1953 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 10,000
I295N
GoodOver: US401
2.8 MI. N. JCT. SR1600, Cumberland, NC
Built 2016 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 13,750
SR1933
GoodOver: I-95 I-95S.RMP
.3 MI. S. OF JCT. US13, Cumberland, NC
Built 2001 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 1,400
SR2233
GoodOver: GRAYS CREEK
0.2MI S. OF JCT SR2234, Cumberland, NC
Built 1970 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 230
SR2215
GoodOver: I95
1.8 MI.E.JCT.NC53, Cumberland, NC
Built 1979 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 150
WINSLOW STREET
GoodOver: BLOUNTS CREEK
0.3 MI.S.JCT.BLOUNT ST., Cumberland, NC
Built 1992 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 1,100
ROSEHILL ROAD
GoodOver: COUNTRY CLUB BRANCH
0.2 MI.S.JCT.HICKORY HILL, Cumberland, NC
Built 1983 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 11,000
MAIDEN LANE
GoodOver: PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS
0.1 MI.W.JCT.ANDERSON ST., Cumberland, NC
Built 1983 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 1,000
NC87 NBL
GoodOver: ROCKFISH CREEK
0.1 MI.N. OF JCT.SR2221, Cumberland, NC
Built 2002 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 9,000
SR1735
GoodOver: LOCKS CREEK
0.2 MI N JCT SR1728, Cumberland, NC
Built 1957 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 500
F5B ASP
GoodOver: BONES CREEK
PU 788 821, Cumberland, NC
Built 2015 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 10
NC53
GoodOver: CANAL
0.2 MI.E.JCT.SR2215, Cumberland, NC
Built 1975 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 11,000
US401BYP
GoodOver: LITTLE CROSS CREEK
0.6 MI. N. OF JCT. NC87, Cumberland, NC
Built 1980 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 34,500
SR1404
GoodOver: BEAVER CREEK
0.15 MI.E.JCT.SR3259, Cumberland, NC
Built 1991 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 23,000
SR1717
GoodOver: CREEK
0.5 MI.W. OF JCT.SR1716, Cumberland, NC
Built 1995 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 100
I95N
GoodOver: LOCKS CREEK
0.8 MI.S.JCT.NC53&NC210, Cumberland, NC
Built 1980 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 23,500
I95S
GoodOver: LOCKS CREEK
0.8 MI.S.JCT.NC53&NC210, Cumberland, NC
Built 1980 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 23,500
I95 BUS US301
GoodOver: LOCKS CREEK
0.2 MI. N. JCT. SR1728, Cumberland, NC
Built 1955 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 10,500
LANGDON STREET
GoodOver: BIG CROSS CREEK
0.1MI.E.JCT.EDGECOMBE AVE, Cumberland, NC
Built 1950 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 5,400
WASHINGTON DRIVE
GoodOver: LITTLE CROSS CREEK
.2 MI.S.JCT.MURCHISON ST., Cumberland, NC
Built 1950 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 301
WINTERLOCHEN DRIVE
GoodOver: BRANSON CREEK
0.1MI.N.JCT.BAYVIEW DR., Cumberland, NC
Built 1950 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 3,000
SR3950
GoodOver: BLOUNTS CREEK
0.1 MI.N.JCT.SR1141, Cumberland, NC
Built 1942 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 9,000
SR1725
GoodOver: LOCKS CREEK
0.1 MI N JCT US301, Cumberland, NC
Built 1965 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 750
SR1168
GoodOver: BLOUNTS CREEK
0.1 MI.S.JCT.US401 B, Cumberland, NC
Built 1975 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 8,900
I95 BUS. US301
GoodOver: REESE CREEK
0.6 MI N. JCT. SR1725, Cumberland, NC
Built 1958 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 4,950
SR3826
GoodOver: CROSS CREEK
0.1MI. S. JCT. SR3147, Cumberland, NC
Built 1957 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 3,100
SR1222
GoodOver: BUCKHEAD CREEK
0.4 MI.W. JCT. SR1219, Cumberland, NC
Built 1960 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 6,800
NC87 NBL
GoodOver: WINSLOW ST.
0.1MI N SR1141, Cumberland, NC
Built 1997 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 14,000
NC162
GoodOver: BUCKHEAD CREEK
0.6 MI.E.JCT.NC59, Cumberland, NC
Built 2008 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 14,500
FOREST HILLS DRIVE
GoodOver: LITTLE CROSS CREEK
130 W. MULBERRY ST., Cumberland, NC
Built 2017 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 200
SR1131
GoodOver: LITTLE ROCKFISH CREEK
0.3MI.W.JCT.SR1363, Cumberland, NC
Built 1989 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 1,400
NC87S
GoodOver: WINSLOW ST.
0.1 MI. N. SR1141, Cumberland, NC
Built 1997 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 14,000
US401BUS
GoodOver: HILLSBOROUGH STREET
0.2 MI.S.JCT.SR2311, Cumberland, NC
Built 1972 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 24,000
SR1007S
GoodOver: BEAVER CREEK
1.05 MI.N.JCT.SR1437, Cumberland, NC
Built 1976 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 26,750
US401BUS
GoodOver: NORFOLK SOUTHERN R.R.
0.1 MI.S.JCT.SR2311, Cumberland, NC
Built 1972 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 24,000
US401
GoodOver: BONES CREEK
0.6 MI. N. OF JCT. SR1102, Cumberland, NC
Built 1994 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 29,000
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