Total bridges
249
Public highway bridges in Lawrence County
County profile · official public datasets
Lawrence County, OH
249 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 26.1% rated Good, 64.3% Fair, 9.6% Poor.
- 249
- Public bridges
- 26.1%
- Good condition
- 9.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lawrence County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 80th
- of 88 on Poor share
- 9.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 249
- public highway bridges
- 1966
- 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.
Lawrence County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lawrence County ranks #80 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.6%). Lawrence County, Ohio contains 249 public highway bridges. Roughly 26.1% are rated “Good,” 64.3% “Fair,” and 9.6% “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
26.1%
65 of 249 rated 7-9
Fair condition
64.3%
160 of 249 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.6%
24 of 249 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#80 of 88
Among Ohio counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 249 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 26.1% (65)
Fair 64.3% (160)
Poor 9.6% (24)
Lawrence County's Poor-condition bridges carry 9,546 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 398 crossings a day against 4,856 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 249 of 249 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
51% of Lawrence County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
127 of the 249 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 26.1% 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 18.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR 93 over TRIB OF LITTLE PINE CREE, built 1979, carries 1,778 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 24-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 9,546 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Lawrence County's bridges were built
249 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s
1900–1909
37 bridges
- 1910s 2
1910–1919
2 bridges
- 1920s 7
1920–1929
7 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
19 bridges
- 1940s 15
1940–1949
15 bridges
- 1950s 10
1950–1959
10 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
34 bridges
- 1970s 10
1970–1979
10 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
22 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
47 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
25 bridges
- 2010s 15
2010–2019
15 bridges
- 2020s 6
2020–2029
6 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 47 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1966, 11 years older than the Ohio average of 1977.
How Lawrence County compares with Ohio's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Ohio counties nearest Lawrence County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.6% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1966 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 15 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 87 Ohio counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medina County | 252 | 60.3% | 36.5% | 3.2% | 1981 |
| Morrow County | 250 | 62% | 29.6% | 8.4% | 1978 |
| Lawrence County (this page) | 249 | 26.1% | 64.3% | 9.6% | 1966 |
| Highland County | 245 | 69.8% | 28.2% | 2% | 1985 |
| Pike County | 245 | 65.7% | 27.8% | 6.5% | 1988 |
| Williams County | 242 | 52.5% | 45% | 2.5% | 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence County, both outside Ohio so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside OH (249 bridges here).
- Brevard County, FL · 249 bridges
- Carroll County, IA · 249 bridges
- Phillips County, KS · 249 bridges
- Van Zandt County, TX · 249 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1966 here).
- Butler County, KS · avg 1966 · 591 bridges
- Grafton County, NH · avg 1966 · 544 bridges
- Queens County, NY · avg 1966 · 514 bridges
- Lehigh County, PA · avg 1966 · 381 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (65)
SR 775
GoodOver: LONG CREEK
.23 MI N OF CR 64, Lawrence, OH
Built 2021 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 800
S 9TH ST
GoodOver: ICE CREEK
450 E OF LORAIN ST, Lawrence, OH
Built 2003 Load: 43.1 t ADT: 300
SR 217
GoodOver: VENISONHAM CREEK
1.09 MI E OF JCT SR 378, Lawrence, OH
Built 2019 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 382
COUNTY ROAD 14
GoodOver: SYMMES CREEK
5.3 MI W OF ST ROUTE 141, Lawrence, OH
Built 1995 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 26
MCKINNEY CREEK RD
GoodOver: MCKINNEY CREEK
.30 MI N OF TWP RD 165, Lawrence, OH
Built 2001 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 575
OLD STATE RT 7
GoodOver: BIG PADDY CREEK
0.38 MI. E OF PROC., Lawrence, OH
Built 1997 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 9,360
SR141
GoodOver: LONG CREEK
0.18 M W OF SR775, Lawrence, OH
Built 2017 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 1,600
SR775
GoodOver: TRIB OF BUCKEYE CREEK
0.1 MI W OF SR378, Lawrence, OH
Built 2016 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 200
SR 217
GoodOver: SYMMES CREEK
JCT ST RT 378, Lawrence, OH
Built 2015 Load: 51.8 t ADT: 1,180
CR169 NEAR SR93
GoodOver: ELLISONVILLE CREEK
2.39MI S OF JCT SR 522, Lawrence, OH
Built 2021 Load: 52.5 t ADT: 725
BIG PADDY ROAD
GoodOver: PADDY CREEK
0.29 MILES NO. OF C-411, Lawrence, OH
Built 2007 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 667
SR 7
GoodOver: BUFFALO CREEK
.27 MI N OF US 52, Lawrence, OH
Built 1959 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 29,067
OLD STATE RT 52
GoodOver: BUFFALO CREEK
10.45 E OF INT C-1 US 52, Lawrence, OH
Built 1996 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 6,005
TOWNSHIP ROAD 271
GoodOver: TRIB OF STORMS CREEK
250 FT W OF TWP RD 179, Lawrence, OH
Built 1997 Load: 84.2 t ADT: 96
US 52
GoodOver: SOLIDA CREEK
SOUTH POINT, Lawrence, OH
Built 1959 Load: 94.0 t ADT: 24,360
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