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Montgomery County, NC

151 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 51% rated Good, 47.7% Fair, 1.3% Poor.

151
Public bridges: 51%
Good condition: 1.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Montgomery County posts a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 10%
lowest Poor share in state: 1.3%
Poor-condition share: 151
public highway bridges: 1986
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.

Montgomery County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Montgomery County ranks #10 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.3%). Montgomery County, North Carolina contains 151 public highway bridges. Roughly 51% are rated “Good,” 47.7% “Fair,” and 1.3% “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

151

Public highway bridges in Montgomery County

Good condition

51%

77 of 151 rated 7-9

Fair condition

47.7%

72 of 151 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.3%

2 of 151 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#10 of 100

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

Condition distribution

Share of 151 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

51% (77)

Fair

47.7% (72)

Poor

1.3% (2)

Montgomery County's Poor-condition bridges carry 130 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 65 crossings a day against 2,190 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 151 of 151 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

31.1% of Montgomery County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

47 of the 151 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 51% 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 61.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR1563 over CHEEK CREEK, built 1958, carries 80 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 130 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

5
1930s

3
1940s

4
1950s

21
1960s

10
1970s

24
1980s

7
1990s

19
2000s

17
2010s

36
2020s

5

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 36 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1986) matches the North Carolina average (1986).

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

The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Montgomery County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.3% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1986 against a peer-group mean of 1989 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Montgomery County and the 5 North Carolina counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Beaufort County	154	51.9%	40.9%	7.1%	1996
Richmond County	154	57.1%	41.6%	1.3%	1988
Montgomery County (this page)	151	51%	47.7%	1.3%	1986
Stokes County	150	38.7%	51.3%	10%	1988
Granville County	149	32.9%	61.1%	6%	1984
Craven County	147	46.9%	49%	4.1%	1988

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NC (151 bridges here).

Randolph County, AR · 151 bridges
Pasco County, FL · 151 bridges
St. Lucie County, FL · 151 bridges
Hall County, GA · 151 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1986 here).

El Paso County, TX · avg 1986 · 783 bridges
Caddo County, LA · avg 1986 · 682 bridges
Weld County, CO · avg 1986 · 614 bridges
Polk County, IA · avg 1986 · 545 bridges

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

All 151 Good 77 Fair 72 Poor 2

All bridges (151)

Sort:

I73/I74 US220S

Fair

Over: SR1500

0.4 MI. S. JCT. NC24&27, Montgomery, NC

Built 1978 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 7,750

SR1354

Fair

Over: I73/I74 US220

0.3 MI. E. JCT. SR1409, Montgomery, NC

Built 1993 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 470

I73N/I-74W/US220 N

Fair

Over: NC211 & N.S.RR

5.0M. S. JCT NC24/27, Montgomery, NC

Built 1979 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 6,750

I73S/I74E/US220 S

Fair

Over: NC211 & N.S.RR

5.0 MI. S. JCT. NC24/27, Montgomery, NC

Built 1979 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 11,000

NC24 NC27

Fair

Over: I73 I74 US220

0.18 MI. E. JCT. SR1577, Montgomery, NC

Built 1977 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 12,500

NC24 NC27BYPSR9004

Fair

Over: TURKEY CREEK

0.9 MI. E. JCT. SR1005, Montgomery, NC

Built 2017 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 7,400

SR1134

Fair

Over: LICK FORK

0.3 MI. N. JCT. SR1135, Montgomery, NC

Built 1951 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 250

I73/74 US220 NBL

Fair

Over: SR1509

1.2 MI. N. JCT. NC211, Montgomery, NC

Built 1979 Load: 58.0 t ADT: 15,500

I73/74 US220 SBL

Fair

Over: SR1509

1.2 MI. N. JCT. NC211, Montgomery, NC

Built 1979 Load: 58.0 t ADT: 9,250

SR1365

Fair

Over: I73 I74 US220

0.7 MI. E. JCT. US220A, Montgomery, NC

Built 1978 Load: 58.0 t ADT: 500

SR1565

Fair

Over: LITTLE CREEK

0.1 MI. N. JCT. SR1564, Montgomery, NC

Built 1995 Load: 86.1 t ADT: 130

SR1372

Fair

Over: COTTON CREEK

0.2 MI. W. JCT. SR1371, Montgomery, NC

Built 1989 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 330

SR1150

Fair

Over: CEDAR CREEK

1.0 MI. S. JCT. SR1152, Montgomery, NC

Built 1978 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 540

SR1115

Fair

Over: HAMER CREEK

0.2 MI. E. JCT. NC73, Montgomery, NC

Built 1979 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 50

SR1370

Fair

Over: COTTON CREEK

1.0 MI.E.JCT.SR1369, Montgomery, NC

Built 1986 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 110

SR1363

Fair

Over: WOLF CREEK

0.5 MI. N. JCT. SR1002, Montgomery, NC

Built 1998 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 350

SR1541

Fair

Over: BRANCH OF CHEEK CREEK

1.4 MI. S. JCT. SR1540, Montgomery, NC

Built 1982 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 120

SR1310

Fair

Over: FORK BARNES CREEK

0.1 MI. N. JCT. SR1309, Montgomery, NC

Built 1994 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 220

SR1308

Fair

Over: BARNES CREEK

0.1 MI. N. JCT. SR1307, Montgomery, NC

Built 1992 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100

SR1308

Fair

Over: BRANCH OF BARNES CREEK

0.4 MI. N. JCT. SR1307, Montgomery, NC

Built 1999 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 80

SR1313

Fair

Over: NICHOLS RUN

0.3 MI. W. JCT. NC134, Montgomery, NC

Built 1997 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 150

SR1154

Fair

Over: MCLEANS CREEK

0.4M E. JCT. NC109, Montgomery, NC

Montgomery County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Montgomery County's Poor-condition bridges carry 130 vehicle crossings a day

31.1% of Montgomery County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 61.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Montgomery 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 (151)

I73/I74 US220S

SR1354

I73N/I-74W/US220 N

I73S/I74E/US220 S

NC24 NC27

NC24 NC27BYPSR9004

SR1134

I73/74 US220 NBL

I73/74 US220 SBL

SR1365

SR1565

SR1372

SR1150

SR1115

SR1370

SR1363

SR1541

SR1310

SR1308

SR1308

SR1313

SR1154

NC731

I73S I74E US220S

I73 I74 US220N

NC73

SR1318

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NC73

NC24 NC27

SR1134

NC24 NC27

NC24 NC27

SR1363

SR1349

SR1111

NC24 NC27 NC109

SR1156

SR1318

SR1565

SR1128

SR1564

SR1520

SR1519

SR1311

SR1306

SR1130

NC109

SR1542

SR1544

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