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Pickaway County, OH

224 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 62.9% rated Good, 34.8% Fair, 2.2% Poor.

224
Public bridges
62.9%
Good condition
2.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Pickaway County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 27%
lowest Poor share in state
2.2%
Poor-condition share
224
public highway bridges
1964
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.

Pickaway County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pickaway County ranks #24 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.2%). Pickaway County, Ohio contains 224 public highway bridges. Roughly 62.9% are rated “Good,” 34.8% “Fair,” and 2.2% “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

224

Public highway bridges in Pickaway County

Good condition

62.9%

141 of 224 rated 7-9

Fair condition

34.8%

78 of 224 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.2%

5 of 224 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#24 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 224 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
62.9% (141)
Fair
34.8% (78)
Poor
2.2% (5)

Pickaway County's Poor-condition bridges carry 22,187 vehicle crossings a day

That is 3.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,437 crossings a day against 2,550 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 224 of 224 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

55.4% of Pickaway County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

124 of the 224 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 62.9% 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 94.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

I-71 over OPOSSUM RUN, built 1964, carries 20,873 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 22,187 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Pickaway County's bridges were built

224 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1900s, when 35 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 15.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 115 to 124 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1964, 13 years older than the Ohio average of 1977.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Pickaway County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.2% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1964 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is 12 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Pickaway County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Jefferson County 226 8.4%
Erie County 225 0.4%
Pickaway County (this page) 224 2.2%
Brown County 223 3.1%
Crawford County 221 2.7%
Union County 221 1.4%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (224 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1964 here).

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

All 224 Good 141 Fair 78 Poor 5

Fair-condition bridges (78)

CLARKS RUN ROAD

Fair

Over: CLARKS RUN

INTRSCTN OF YANKEETOWN PK, Pickaway, OH

Built 1970 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 287

RINGGOLD NORTHERN

Fair

Over: TURKEY RUN CREEK

0.6M N.OF ASHVILLE-FAIRF, Pickaway, OH

Built 1930 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 324

WEIGAND ROAD

Fair

Over: CSX; N & S RAILROAD

0.5 MI W. OF ASHVILLE PIK, Pickaway, OH

Built 1927 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 594

SPANGLER ROAD

Fair

Over: SALT CREEK

JUNCTION OF TARLTON-ADELP, Pickaway, OH

Built 1919 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 248

HAYESVILLE ROAD

Fair

Over: PIKE HOLE CREEK

0.8 MI EAST OF WHISLER, Pickaway, OH

Built 1936 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 614

CROWNOVER ROAD

Fair

Over: BRANCH OF DEER CREEK

0.4MI E. OF LOCUST GROVE, Pickaway, OH

Built 1940 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 353

ASHVILLE-FAIRFIELD

Fair

Over: TURKEY RUN CREEK

0.4MI E.OF RINGGOLD-NRTHN, Pickaway, OH

Built 1900 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 668

CARSON RD. (CR-3)

Fair

Over: IR 71

2.78 MI N OF MADISON CO., Pickaway, OH

Built 1964 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 494

SOUTH PERRY ROAD

Fair

Over: MOCCASIN CREEK

0.1 MI W. OF MOCCASIN RD, Pickaway, OH

Built 1900 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 324

US 22

Fair

Over: LICK RUN

0.75 MI N OF SR138, Pickaway, OH

Built 1962 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 4,590

USR 62

Fair

Over: SPRINGWATER RUN

0.13 MI N OF SR762, Pickaway, OH

Built 1955 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 10,275

YANKEETOWN PIKE

Fair

Over: CLARKS RUN

INTRSCTN OF CLARKS RUN RD, Pickaway, OH

Built 1993 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 319

I-71

Fair

Over: OPOSSUM RUN

0.46 MI N OF MADISON CO, Pickaway, OH

Built 1964 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 20,873

CROWNOVER MILL RD

Fair

Over: BRANCH OF DEER CREEK

0.4MI E.OF DEERCREEK ROAD, Pickaway, OH

Built 1968 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 290

USR 22

Fair

Over: STATE RUN

3.62 MI. N. OF SR207, Pickaway, OH

Built 1962 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 2,091

S.BLOOMFIELD-ROYAL

Fair

Over: LITTLE WALNUT CREEK

0.5MI W.OF WALNUT CREEK, Pickaway, OH

Built 1900 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 306

MOWERY ROAD

Fair

Over: MOCCASIN CREEK

0.1 MI WEST OF MOCCASIN, Pickaway, OH

Built 1900 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 324

KINDERHOOK ROAD

Fair

Over: BR OF YELLOW BUD CREEK

0.5 MI NORTH OF SR 138, Pickaway, OH

Built 1993 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 222

JUDAS ROAD

Fair

Over: HAY RUN

0.2MI EAST OF SR 207, Pickaway, OH

Built 1980 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 193

SR 207

Fair

Over: BRUSH CREEK

0.25 MI N OF ROSS CO LINE, Pickaway, OH

Built 1983 Load: 41.1 t ADT: 1,105

PERRY ROAD

Fair

Over: MOCCASIN CREEK

JUNCTION OF MOCCASIN ROAD, Pickaway, OH

Built 1965 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 324

DUVALL ROAD

Fair

Over: BRANCH OF WALNUT CREEK

0.1 MI W OF WHEELER ROAD, Pickaway, OH

Built 1975 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 406

SR 207

Fair

Over: HAY RUN

1.88 MI N OF ROSS CO LINE, Pickaway, OH

Built 1948 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 1,105

SR 104

Fair

Over: OVER KOCH RUN

5.46 MI N OF SR56, Pickaway, OH

Built 1979 Load: 44.7 t ADT: 2,653

WHEELER ROAD

Fair

Over: BRANCH OF WALNUT CREEK

0.5MI SOUTH OF DUVALL RD, Pickaway, OH

Built 1992 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 351

BOLENDER-PONTIUS

Fair

Over: HOMINY CREEK

0.5 MI SOUTH OF US 22, Pickaway, OH

Built 1997 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 495

TARLTON ROAD

Fair

Over: SCIPPO CREEK

JUNCTION OF ZANE TRAIL RD, Pickaway, OH

Built 1930 Load: 54.1 t ADT: 2,236

ETT-NOECHER

Fair

Over: TURKEY RUN CREEK

0.5MI N. OF ASHVILLE-FARF, Pickaway, OH

Built 2001 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 106

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