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Morrow County, OH

250 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 62% rated Good, 29.6% Fair, 8.4% Poor.

250
Public bridges: 62%
Good condition: 8.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Morrow County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

72nd
of 88 on Poor share: 8.4%
Poor-condition share: 250
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.

Morrow County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Morrow County ranks #72 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.4%). Morrow County, Ohio contains 250 public highway bridges. Roughly 62% are rated “Good,” 29.6% “Fair,” and 8.4% “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

250

Public highway bridges in Morrow County

Good condition

62%

155 of 250 rated 7-9

Fair condition

29.6%

74 of 250 rated 5-6

Poor condition

8.4%

21 of 250 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#72 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 250 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

62% (155)

Fair

29.6% (74)

Poor

8.4% (21)

Morrow County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,483 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 404 crossings a day against 3,143 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 250 of 250 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

40.8% of Morrow County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

102 of the 250 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 62% 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 26.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

S.R. 19 over WHETSTONE CREEK, built 1959, carries 2,246 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 21-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 8,483 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

6
1900s

15
1910s

2
1920s

2
1930s

1
1940s

4
1950s

29
1960s

32
1970s

25
1980s

25
1990s

33
2000s

27
2010s

45
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 45 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Ohio average (1977).

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

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Morrow County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.4% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Morrow County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Jackson County	257	51.4%	40.1%	8.6%	1970
Medina County	252	60.3%	36.5%	3.2%	1981
Morrow County (this page)	250	62%	29.6%	8.4%	1978
Lawrence County	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

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (250 bridges here).

Escambia County, FL · 250 bridges
Scotts Bluff County, NE · 250 bridges
Humphreys County, TN · 250 bridges
Hopkins County, TX · 250 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 250 Good 155 Fair 74 Poor 21

All bridges (250)

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Morrow County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Morrow County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,483 vehicle crossings a day

40.8% of Morrow County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 26.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Morrow 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 (250)

USR 42

US-42

SR 61

I-71

I-71

I-71

I-71

I-71

WALDO-FULT-CHEST

I-71

I-71

SR-95

SR 97

SR229

SR 314

TR103

TR179

TR232

TR184

CR15

CR61

TR 224

TR 179

LIGHT CREEK

TR 224

TR 224

TR 44/43

TR115

TR 213

TR185

CR23

CR155

CR218

CR 61

CR 11

CR 46

CR121

CR184

CR 15

WILLMSPRT-BLOMGRV

TR 198

CR70

CR 15

CR149

TR124

CR40

CR38

CR184

TR 14

CR 11

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