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Champaign County, OH

192 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 87.5% rated Good, 11.5% Fair, 1% Poor.

192
Public bridges: 87.5%
Good condition: 1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Champaign 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%
Poor-condition share: 192
public highway bridges: 1981
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.

Champaign County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Champaign County ranks #9 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1%). Champaign County, Ohio contains 192 public highway bridges. Roughly 87.5% are rated “Good,” 11.5% “Fair,” and 1% “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

192

Public highway bridges in Champaign County

Good condition

87.5%

168 of 192 rated 7-9

Fair condition

11.5%

22 of 192 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2 of 192 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#9 of 88

Among Ohio counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 192 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

87.5% (168)

Fair

11.5% (22)

Poor

1% (2)

Champaign County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,735 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 868 crossings a day against 1,375 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 192 of 192 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

34.9% of Champaign County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

67 of the 192 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 87.5% 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 81.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

W. COURT STREET over DUGAN RUN, built 1916, carries 1,411 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 1,735 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1900s

1
1910s

7
1930s

7
1940s

2
1950s

12
1960s

29
1970s

25
1980s

23
1990s

40
2000s

26
2010s

19
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 40 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Ohio average (1977).

How Champaign County compares with Ohio's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Champaign County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 87 Ohio counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Champaign County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Fulton County	198	48.5%	51.5%	0%	1970
Madison County	198	65.2%	26.3%	8.6%	1982
Champaign County (this page)	192	87.5%	11.5%	1%	1981
Coshocton County	186	46.8%	42.5%	10.8%	1984
Adams County	184	42.9%	52.2%	4.9%	1974
Vinton County	179	50.3%	41.3%	8.4%	1977

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 Champaign 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 Champaign County, both outside Ohio so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (192 bridges here).

Barbour County, AL · 192 bridges
El Dorado County, CA · 192 bridges
Santa Cruz County, CA · 192 bridges
Morgan County, CO · 192 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1981 here).

Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges
Shawnee County, KS · avg 1981 · 563 bridges
Pottawattamie County, IA · avg 1981 · 557 bridges

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

All 192 Good 168 Fair 22 Poor 2

Good-condition bridges (168)

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Champaign County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Champaign County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,735 vehicle crossings a day

34.9% of Champaign County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 81.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Champaign County compares with Ohio's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Good-condition bridges (168)

SR-559

SR-559

SR-560

SR-814

SR-814

ST PARIS-JACKSON

N HECK HILL ROAD

CHURCH ROAD

NETTLE CREEK ROAD

MINGO-LEWISBURG

SIBLEY ROAD

SHEEHE ROAD

BLOOMFIELD AVENUE

USR-36

LIPPINCOTT ROAD

PARKVIEW ROAD

MILLERSTOWN-ERIS

STICKLEY ROAD

DALLAS ROAD

RIVER ROAD

GLENDENNING ROAD

PARK ROAD

EAGLE ROAD

RHODEHAMEL

FLOWING WELL

BAIR RD

LUDLOW ROAD

SR-507

CLARK ROAD

SR-4

USR 68

OLD TROY PIKE

N ELM TREE ROAD

MILLERSTOWN ROAD

WISEMAN ROAD

BOLLINGER ROAD

UPPER VALLEY PIKE

UPPER VALLEY PIKE

VALLEY PIKE

HECK HILL

WING ROAD

MOORES RUN

NEAL ROAD

LIPPINCOTT ROAD

GLENDENNING ROAD

WREN ROAD

STONY CREEK ROAD

LANTZ ROAD

OLD TROY PIKE

SR-54

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