Total bridges
54
Public highway bridges in Pasquotank County
County profile · official public datasets
Pasquotank County, NC
54 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 59.3% rated Good, 38.9% Fair, 1.9% Poor.
- 54
- Public bridges
- 59.3%
- Good condition
- 1.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pasquotank County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 16%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 1.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 54
- 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.
Pasquotank County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pasquotank County ranks #16 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.9%). Pasquotank County, North Carolina contains 54 public highway bridges. Roughly 59.3% are rated “Good,” 38.9% “Fair,” and 1.9% “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
59.3%
32 of 54 rated 7-9
Fair condition
38.9%
21 of 54 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.9%
1 of 54 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#16 of 100
Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 54 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 59.3% (32)
Fair 38.9% (21)
Poor 1.9% (1)
Pasquotank County's Poor-condition bridges carry 760 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 760 crossings a day against 5,779 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 54 of 54 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
14.8% of Pasquotank County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
8 of the 54 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 59.3% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR1140 over BR. OF LITTLE RIVER, built 1972, carries 760 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 760 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Pasquotank County's bridges were built
54 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1960s 5
1960–1969
5 bridges
- 1970s 3
1970–1979
3 bridges
- 1980s 5
1980–1989
5 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
8 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
16 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
12 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 16 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1998, 12 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.
How Pasquotank County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Pasquotank County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.9% Poor share is the 3rd-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.
| 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 | 58 | 58.6% | 37.9% | 3.4% | 1998 |
| Carteret County | 55 | 41.8% | 54.5% | 3.6% | 1992 |
| Pasquotank County (this page) | 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 Pasquotank 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 Pasquotank County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NC (54 bridges here).
- Rio Blanco County, CO · 54 bridges
- Brantley County, GA · 54 bridges
- Jones County, GA · 54 bridges
- Larue County, KY · 54 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.
Fair-condition bridges (21)
SR1144
FairOver: CANAL
2.1 MI. W. JCT. SR1374, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1960 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 2,000
US158
FairOver: PASQUOTANK RIVER
0.3 MI E JCT US17BUS, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1972 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 9,000
SR1103
FairOver: MILL DAM CREEK
0.7 MI. S. OF JCT. SR1116, Pasquotank, NC
Built 2009 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 150
US17 BUS
FairOver: KNOBBS CREEK
0.3 MI. N. JCT. SR1145, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1975 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 13,000
SR1416
FairOver: BR. OF PASQUOTANK RI
1.7 MI. S. OF SR1333, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1940 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 1,400
SR1303
FairOver: LITTLE RIVER
0.5 MI W. OF JCT SR1304, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1998 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 360
US17
FairOver: KNOBBS CREEK
.2MI.N. OF JCT.17BUSINESS, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1993 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 17,000
SR1132
FairOver: NEWBEGUN CREEK
.9 MI. W. OF JCT. NC344, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1996 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 600
SR1416
FairOver: DITCH
.03 MI. N. JCT. SR1333, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1962 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 3,900
SR1126
FairOver: PAILIN CREEK
1.1 MI. E. JCT. NC344, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1967 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 1,100
SR1300
FairOver: BR. OF LITTLE RIVER
0.1 MI N JCT SR1374, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1996 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 300
SR1140
FairOver: HALLS CREEK
1.9 MI. W. JCT. SR1136, Pasquotank, NC
Built 2006 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 2,200
US17N.
FairOver: PASQUOTANK RIVER
0.5MI.N.JCT.US158, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1983 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 18,500
US17S
FairOver: PASQUOTANK RIVER
1.0 MI. N. JCT. US158, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1983 Load: 47.1 t ADT: 18,500
NC344
FairOver: NEW BEGUN CREEK
0.1 MI.N. JCT SR1100, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1994 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 1,600
NC34
FairOver: WILSON CREEK
0.2 MI S JCT SR1103, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1994 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 1,100
US17 US158
FairOver: CANAL
0.4 MI.N.JCT. SR1333, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1983 Load: 77.1 t ADT: 8,900
SR1359
FairOver: MILL POND CREEK
0.2 MI.N.JCT.SR1354, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1993 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 130
SR1363
FairOver: NEWLAND DRAINAGE CANAL
0.1 MI N JCT US158, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1980 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 180
SR1309
FairOver: * KNOBBS CREEK
0.4 MI. W. JCT. US 17BYP, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1997 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 5,100
SR1302
FairOver: CANAL
0.4 MI W JCT SR1300, Pasquotank, NC
Built 1989 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 100
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