Total bridges
245
Public highway bridges in Pike County
County profile · official public datasets
Pike County, OH
245 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 65.7% rated Good, 27.8% Fair, 6.5% Poor.
- 245
- Public bridges
- 65.7%
- Good condition
- 6.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pike County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- 62nd
- of 88 on Poor share
- 6.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 245
- public highway bridges
- 1988
- 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.
Pike County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pike County ranks #62 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.5%). Pike County, Ohio contains 245 public highway bridges. Roughly 65.7% are rated “Good,” 27.8% “Fair,” and 6.5% “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
65.7%
161 of 245 rated 7-9
Fair condition
27.8%
68 of 245 rated 5-6
Poor condition
6.5%
16 of 245 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#62 of 88
Among Ohio counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 245 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 65.7% (161)
Fair 27.8% (68)
Poor 6.5% (16)
Pike County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,546 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 284 crossings a day against 2,102 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 245 of 245 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
31% of Pike County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
76 of the 245 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 65.7% 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 16.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CO RD 46 over PRUSSIA RUN, built 1962, carries 764 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 16-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 4,546 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Pike County's bridges were built
245 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 2
1910–1919
2 bridges
- 1930s 9
1930–1939
9 bridges
- 1940s 5
1940–1949
5 bridges
- 1950s 23
1950–1959
23 bridges
- 1960s 9
1960–1969
9 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
34 bridges
- 1980s 6
1980–1989
6 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
71 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
42 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
39 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 71 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1988, 11 years newer than the Ohio average of 1977.
How Pike County compares with Ohio's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Ohio counties nearest Pike County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.5% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is 12 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 87 Ohio counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrow County | 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 (this page) | 245 | 65.7% | 27.8% | 6.5% | 1988 |
| Williams County | 242 | 52.5% | 45% | 2.5% | 1974 |
| Fayette County | 241 | 60.2% | 39% | 0.8% | 1979 |
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 Pike 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 Pike County, both outside Ohio so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside OH (245 bridges here).
- Allegany County, MD · 245 bridges
- Henderson County, NC · 245 bridges
- Rowan County, NC · 245 bridges
- Grimes County, TX · 245 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1988 here).
- Travis County, TX · avg 1988 · 1,544 bridges
- Grant County, OK · avg 1988 · 476 bridges
- Loudoun County, VA · avg 1988 · 442 bridges
- Vernon County, MO · avg 1988 · 401 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (16)
612
PoorOver: CSX RAIL TRANSPORT
0.19 MI N OF CR66, Pike, OH
Built 1915 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 324
TWP. RD. 311
PoorOver: TRIBUTARY LEFT FORK
1.95 MI. E. OF SR772, Pike, OH
Built 1975 Load: 10.9 t ADT: 209
TWP ROAD 252
PoorOver: LEETH CREEK
0.02 MILE EAST OF CR-5, Pike, OH
Built 1940 Load: 10.9 t ADT: 27
CO RD 82
PoorOver: BIG BEAVER CREEK
0.42 MI N.OF US 32, Pike, OH
Built 1969 Load: 15.6 t ADT: 586
CO.RD. 9
PoorOver: SUNFISH CREEK
0.32 MI S. OF JCT. SR-124, Pike, OH
Built 1955 Load: 16.2 t ADT: 600
COUNTY ROAD 3
PoorOver: RIGHT FORK MORGAN FORK
6.31 MI N. OF JCT SR124, Pike, OH
Built 1991 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 301
CO RD 64
PoorOver: CSX TRANSPORTATION INC.
0.04 MI W.OF JCT CR-66, Pike, OH
Built 1916 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 287
CO.RD.8
PoorOver: BAKER FORK
0.64 MI S OF JCT SR-41, Pike, OH
Built 1955 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 112
TWP RD 428
PoorOver: LEFT FORK CROOKED CREEK
0.04 MI W.OF JCT CR-47, Pike, OH
Built 1980 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 80
TWP ROAD 451
PoorOver: HAWE FORK
0.02 MI E.OF JCT CR 34, Pike, OH
Built 1990 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 50
CO RD 54
PoorOver: MEADOW RUN
01.18 MI S.OF JCT CR-51, Pike, OH
Built 1981 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 385
TWP RD 640
PoorOver: MCDOWELL CREEK
0.28 MI E OF JCT SR 335, Pike, OH
Built 1940 Load: 29.2 t ADT: 60
CO RD 46
PoorOver: PRUSSIA RUN
0.55 MI N.OF JCT CR-47, Pike, OH
Built 1962 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 764
PRUSSIA RD.
PoorOver: MOORES RUN
0.48 MI. N. OF JCT CR 102, Pike, OH
Built 1945 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 400
COUNTY RD. 76
PoorOver: TRIB BIG BEAVER CREEK
0.9 MI S OF JCT CR 77, Pike, OH
Built 1937 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 251
CO RD NO 69
PoorOver: STREAM
1 MI.W.OF CR.80, Pike, OH
Built 1970 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 110
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