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Hertford County, NC

58 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 58.6% rated Good, 37.9% Fair, 3.4% Poor.

58
Public bridges: 58.6%
Good condition: 3.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hertford 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 35%
lowest Poor share in state: 3.4%
Poor-condition share: 58
public highway bridges: 1998
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.

Hertford County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hertford County ranks #35 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.4%). Hertford County, North Carolina contains 58 public highway bridges. Roughly 58.6% are rated “Good,” 37.9% “Fair,” and 3.4% “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

Public highway bridges in Hertford County

Good condition

58.6%

34 of 58 rated 7-9

Fair condition

37.9%

22 of 58 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.4%

2 of 58 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#35 of 100

Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 58 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

58.6% (34)

Fair

37.9% (22)

Poor

3.4% (2)

Hertford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,000 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 500 crossings a day against 1,556 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 58 of 58 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

13.8% of Hertford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

8 of the 58 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 58.6% 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 75% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR1112 over AHOSKIE CREEK, built 1980, carries 750 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,000 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

1
1950s

2
1960s

3
1970s

3
1980s

5
1990s

13
2000s

6
2010s

18
2020s

6

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 18 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 31% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1998, 12 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.

How Hertford County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Hertford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.4% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1998 against a peer-group mean of 1988 is 10 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hertford County and the 5 North Carolina counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Clay County	63	44.4%	52.4%	3.2%	1973
Greene County	62	43.5%	56.5%	0%	1989
Washington County	59	54.2%	44.1%	1.7%	1989
Hertford County (this page)	58	58.6%	37.9%	3.4%	1998
Carteret County	55	41.8%	54.5%	3.6%	1992
Pasquotank County	54	59.3%	38.9%	1.9%	1998

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 Hertford 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 Hertford County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NC (58 bridges here).

Wrangell City and County, AK · 58 bridges
Jeff Davis County, GA · 58 bridges
Putnam County, GA · 58 bridges
Union County, IN · 58 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1998 here).

Collin County, TX · avg 1998 · 1,127 bridges
Orange County, FL · avg 1998 · 885 bridges
Fort Bend County, TX · avg 1998 · 795 bridges
Montgomery County, TX · avg 1998 · 710 bridges

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

All 58 Good 34 Fair 22 Poor 2

All bridges (58)

Sort:

US13 NC42 NC561

Fair

Over: SCLRR

0.5 MI.S.JCT.NC561, Hertford, NC

Built 1938 Load: 22.6 t ADT: 13,000

SR1101

Fair

Over: AHOSKIE CREEK

1.0 MI.S.JCT.NC561, Hertford, NC

Built 1967 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 990

NC561

Fair

Over: AHOSKIE CREEK

0.4 MI. E.JCT. SR1424, Hertford, NC

Built 1990 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 850

SR1425

Fair

Over: FLAT SWAMP

1.0 MI. E. JCT. SR1403, Hertford, NC

Built 1992 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 220

NC11 NC42

Fair

Over: TURKEY CREEK

0.1 MI. N. JCT. SR1111, Hertford, NC

Built 1923 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 7,200

US258

Fair

Over: BUCKHORN CREEK

1.4 MI N JCT SR1316, Hertford, NC

Built 1955 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 3,200

US158 BUSINESS

Fair

Over: TURKEY CREEK

0.4 MI. S. JCT. SR1180, Hertford, NC

Built 1987 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 3,000

NC561

Fair

Over: CHINKAPIN CREEK

2.8 MI.W. OF JCT.NC45, Hertford, NC

Built 1983 Load: 37.1 t ADT: 850

US13S US158W

Fair

Over: CHOWAN RIVER

0.7 MI. N. JCT. US158, Hertford, NC

Built 1972 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 3,850

SR1164

Fair

Over: POTECASI CREEK

0.8 MI W JCT SR1163, Hertford, NC

Built 2006 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 250

SR1160

Fair

Over: POTECASI CREEK

0.9 MI W JCT SR1167, Hertford, NC

Built 1996 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 250

NC45

Fair

Over: WICCACON RIVER

1.9 MI W. JCT NC561, Hertford, NC

Built 1999 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 1,500

US258

Fair

Over: MEHERRIN RIVER

0.4 MI N. OF JCT US158, Hertford, NC

Built 1991 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 4,700

SR1351

Fair

Over: KIRBYS CREEK

1.1 MI.N.SR1302, Hertford, NC

Built 2002 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 950

US13 NC42

Fair

Over: AHOSKIE CREEK

0.3 MI.N. JCT. SR142, Hertford, NC

Built 2011 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 6,700

NC11

Fair

Over: AHOSKIE CREEK

0.5MI.S.JCT SR1108, Hertford, NC

Built 1979 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 3,900

SR1139

Fair

Over: BLUEWATER BRANCH

1.2 MI. N. JCT. NC461, Hertford, NC

Built 1997 Load: 81.6 t ADT: 50

SR1306

Fair

Over: BR.OF LIVERMAN CREEK

0.6 MI.W. OF JCT.SR1308, Hertford, NC

Built 1993 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 90

SR1163

Fair

Over: PANTHER SWAMP

0.8 MI. W. JCT. SR1182, Hertford, NC

Built 1989 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 320

SR1002

Fair

Over: FLAT SWAMP

0.4 MI. S. JCT. SR1434, Hertford, NC

Built 1985 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 550

SR1420

Fair

Over: BRANCH OF AHOSKIE CREEK

1.0 MI. E. JCT. US13, Hertford, NC

Built 1979 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 70

SR1403

Fair

Over: FLAT SWAMP

0.6MI. S. JCT. SR1408, Hertford, NC

Hertford County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hertford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,000 vehicle crossings a day

13.8% of Hertford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 75% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Hertford County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (58)

US13 NC42 NC561

SR1101

NC561

SR1425

NC11 NC42

US258

US158 BUSINESS

NC561

US13S US158W

SR1164

SR1160

NC45

US258

SR1351

US13 NC42

NC11

SR1139

SR1306

SR1163

SR1002

SR1420

SR1403

NC305

NC11

SR1413

SR1443

SR1308

SR1167

SR1150

SR1175

SR1141

SR1427

SR1137

SR1346

US158W

SR1303

NC42

SR1311

SR1108

SR1432

US13 NC42

SR1441

US158E

SR1409

SR 1130/MODLIN RD.

US13N US158E

SR1213

SR1311

US13N US158N

SR1319

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