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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.

pre-1900

1
1900s

35
1910s

3
1920s

1
1930s

12
1940s

6
1950s

29
1960s

18
1970s

28
1980s

28
1990s

35
2000s

11
2010s

15
2020s

2

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.

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	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Jefferson County	226	44.2%	47.3%	8.4%	1966
Erie County	225	66.7%	32.9%	0.4%	1977
Pickaway County (this page)	224	62.9%	34.8%	2.2%	1964
Brown County	223	62.8%	34.1%	3.1%	1974
Crawford County	221	74.2%	23.1%	2.7%	1981
Union County	221	68.8%	29.9%	1.4%	1984

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).

Conecuh County, AL · 224 bridges
Sac County, IA · 224 bridges
Riley County, KS · 224 bridges
Clarke County, MS · 224 bridges

Similar average build year

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

Bergen County, NJ · avg 1964 · 577 bridges
Morris County, NJ · avg 1964 · 508 bridges
Baltimore city County, MD · avg 1964 · 374 bridges
Franklin County, MA · avg 1964 · 314 bridges

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

Good-condition bridges (141)

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Pickaway County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

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

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

One structure carries 94.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Pickaway 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

Good-condition bridges (141)

COMMERCIAL POINT

TARLTON-ADELPHI RD

SR 316

GOODMAN ROAD

HAYESVILLE ROAD

COMMERCIAL POINT

PERRILL ROAD

USR 23

YANKEETOWN PIKE

FLORENCE-CHAPEL RD

SR 138

SR316

HATFIELD ROAD

HAGERTY ROAD

US 23

BELL STATION ROAD

BADGER ROAD

WINCHESTER ROAD

ZANE TRAIL ROAD

US 23SB

SR 104

EGYPT PIKE

ISLAND ROAD

SR 104

SR 361

MANTLE ROAD

TURNEY-CALDWELL RD

TURNEY-CALDWELL RD

ETT-NOECHER

S.R.104

WINCHESTER ROAD

LOCKBOURNE EASTERN

WHITESIDE ROAD

SR 762

DRUMMOND ROAD

HALL ROAD

TENNY ROAD

CR 16

COMMERCIAL POINT

US 22

USR 23

SR 56

SR 56

SR 56

SR-104

SR 104

SR 104

SR159

SR 188

SR 316

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