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Fulton County, OH

198 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 48.5% rated Good, 51.5% Fair, 0% Poor.

198
Public bridges: 48.5%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Fulton County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 3%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 198
public highway bridges: 1970
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.

Fulton County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fulton County ranks #3 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Fulton County, Ohio contains 198 public highway bridges. Roughly 48.5% are rated “Good,” 51.5% “Fair,” and 0% “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

198

Public highway bridges in Fulton County

Good condition

48.5%

96 of 198 rated 7-9

Fair condition

51.5%

102 of 198 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 198 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#3 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 198 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

48.5% (96)

Fair

51.5% (102)

Poor

0% (0)

60.1% of Fulton County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

119 of the 198 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 48.5% 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.

1900s

2
1910s

1
1920s

4
1930s

9
1940s

7
1950s

53
1960s

21
1970s

39
1980s

17
1990s

23
2000s

10
2010s

10
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 53 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1970, 7 years older than the Ohio average of 1977.

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

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Fulton County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1970 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 5 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Fulton County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Holmes County	208	43.3%	53.8%	2.9%	1978
Noble County	208	45.2%	47.6%	7.2%	1959
Meigs County	207	45.4%	51.7%	2.9%	1974
Madison County	198	65.2%	26.3%	8.6%	1982
Fulton County (this page)	198	48.5%	51.5%	0%	1970
Champaign County	192	87.5%	11.5%	1%	1981

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (198 bridges here).

Scott County, AR · 198 bridges
Aiken County, SC · 198 bridges
Dorchester County, SC · 198 bridges
Erath County, TX · 198 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1970 here).

Yavapai County, AZ · avg 1970 · 543 bridges
Garfield County, OK · avg 1970 · 504 bridges
San Luis Obispo County, CA · avg 1970 · 401 bridges
Somerset County, NJ · avg 1970 · 397 bridges

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

All 198 Good 96 Fair 102 Poor 0

All bridges (198)

Sort:

Bridge 4L.1

Fair

Over: AI CREEK

0.1 MI. N. OF ROAD L, Fulton, OH

Built 1981 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 221

Bridge 18N.8

Fair

Over: CHESTERFIELD NO 2

0.8 MI. N. OF ROAD N, Fulton, OH

Fulton County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

60.1% of Fulton County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Fulton 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

All bridges (198)

Bridge 4L.1

Bridge 18N.8

SR 109

Bridge 20N.5

Bridge 23R.2

Bridge EF6-3.1

Bridge 22N.9

Bridge 24T.3

Bridge 2EF.2

SR 64

Bridge 26-2HJ.1

USR 20

SR 66

Bridge S27.8

USR 20

RAKER BARDEN RD

FULTON LUCAS RD

USR 20

USR 20A

SR 66

SR 66

Bridge JSR109.5

Bridge J21.0

Bridge RS11-2.2

Bridge T19-2.4

Bridge 5-2F.0

Bridge 23J.3

Bridge TAR02

Bridge C5-1.4

USR 20A

SR 2

USR 20

USR 20

Bridge M21.4

Bridge 24G.2

Bridge 26FG.0

WEST GARFIELD AVEN

WILSON STREET

I80 OH TPK

Bridge F20.3

Bridge N18.4

Bridge R21-2.0

Bridge T23.7

Bridge TAR03

I80 OH TPK EB

I80 OH TPK WB

Bridge 3F.1

Bridge 3E.5

Bridge 10A.5

Bridge N20.5

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