Total bridges
208
Public highway bridges in Holmes County
County profile · official public datasets
Holmes County, OH
208 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.3% rated Good, 53.8% Fair, 2.9% Poor.
- 208
- Public bridges
- 43.3%
- Good condition
- 2.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Holmes County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 40%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 208
- public highway bridges
- 1978
- 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.
Holmes County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Holmes County ranks #35 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.9%). Holmes County, Ohio contains 208 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.3% are rated “Good,” 53.8% “Fair,” and 2.9% “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
43.3%
90 of 208 rated 7-9
Fair condition
53.8%
112 of 208 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.9%
6 of 208 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#35 of 88
Among Ohio counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 208 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 43.3% (90)
Fair 53.8% (112)
Poor 2.9% (6)
Holmes County's Poor-condition bridges carry 9,363 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,561 crossings a day against 1,384 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 208 of 208 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
42.3% of Holmes County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
88 of the 208 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 43.3% 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 64.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR 83 over MARTIANS CREEK, built 1983, carries 6,022 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 9,363 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Holmes County's bridges were built
208 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1900s 2
1900–1909
2 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 12
1920–1929
12 bridges
- 1930s 13
1930–1939
13 bridges
- 1940s 6
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
18 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
21 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
19 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
21 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
34 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
28 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
23 bridges
- 2020s 9
2020–2029
9 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 34 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Ohio average (1977).
How Holmes County compares with Ohio's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Ohio counties nearest Holmes County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.9% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is 5 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 87 Ohio counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Putnam County | 213 | 54.9% | 40.4% | 4.7% | 1982 |
| Lake County | 210 | 52.9% | 38.6% | 8.6% | 1973 |
| Clinton County | 209 | 73.7% | 24.4% | 1.9% | 1979 |
| Noble County | 208 | 45.2% | 47.6% | 7.2% | 1959 |
| Holmes County (this page) | 208 | 43.3% | 53.8% | 2.9% | 1978 |
| Meigs County | 207 | 45.4% | 51.7% | 2.9% | 1974 |
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 Holmes 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 Holmes County, both outside Ohio so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside OH (208 bridges here).
- Muscogee County, GA · 208 bridges
- Posey County, IN · 208 bridges
- Marshall County, KY · 208 bridges
- Caldwell County, MO · 208 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1978 here).
- Orange County, CA · avg 1978 · 1,164 bridges
- Sumner County, KS · avg 1978 · 659 bridges
- Allen County, IN · avg 1978 · 613 bridges
- Livingston County, IL · avg 1978 · 579 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (208)
TOWNSHIP ROAD 323
GoodOver: RUSH RUN
0.08 MI. SOUTH OF CR 1, Holmes, OH
Built 2010 Load: 88.1 t ADT: 124
TOWNSHIP ROAD 173
GoodOver: BRUSH RUN
0.22 MI. N OF JCT. SR 93, Holmes, OH
Built 2009 Load: 90.7 t ADT: 40
TOWNSHIP ROAD 356
PoorOver: DOUGHTY CREEK
0.04 MI. SOUTH OF TR 375, Holmes, OH
Built 1940 Load: 16.2 t ADT: 243
COUNTY ROAD 19
PoorOver: DOUGHTY CREEK
0.20 MI. EAST OF CR 68, Holmes, OH
Built 1980 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 367
SR 83
PoorOver: MARTIANS CREEK
4.35 MI S OF WAYNE CO., Holmes, OH
Built 1983 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 6,022
TOWNSHIP ROAD 208
PoorOver: TRIBUTARY MOHICAN RIVER
0.22 MI. SOUTH OF CR 23, Holmes, OH
Built 1983 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 39
COUNTY ROAD 201
PoorOver: TRIBUTARY MARTINS CREEK
0.34 MILES SOUTH OF SR241, Holmes, OH
Built 2000 Load: 26.2 t ADT: 2,053
COUNTY ROAD 52
PoorOver: MISSOURI LICK RUN
0.16 MI. NORTH OF TR 222, Holmes, OH
Built 2001 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 639
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