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Tuscarawas County, OH

336 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 66.7% rated Good, 31% Fair, 2.4% Poor.

336
Public bridges: 66.7%
Good condition: 2.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 31%
lowest Poor share in state: 2.4%
Poor-condition share: 336
public highway bridges: 1981
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.

Tuscarawas County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Tuscarawas County ranks #27 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.4%). Tuscarawas County, Ohio contains 336 public highway bridges. Roughly 66.7% are rated “Good,” 31% “Fair,” and 2.4% “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

336

Public highway bridges in Tuscarawas County

Good condition

66.7%

224 of 336 rated 7-9

Fair condition

31%

104 of 336 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.4%

8 of 336 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#27 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 336 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

66.7% (224)

Fair

31% (104)

Poor

2.4% (8)

Tuscarawas County's Poor-condition bridges carry 12,488 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,561 crossings a day against 3,520 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 336 of 336 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

46.7% of Tuscarawas County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

157 of the 336 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 66.7% 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 29.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR 800 over TUSCARAWAS RIVER, built 1978, carries 3,705 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 12,488 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1900s

5
1910s

4
1920s

3
1930s

10
1940s

5
1950s

14
1960s

110
1970s

14
1980s

19
1990s

50
2000s

67
2010s

31
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 110 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 32.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Ohio average (1977).

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

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Tuscarawas County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.4% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Tuscarawas County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Mahoning County	348	56.6%	38.5%	4.9%	1967
Greene County	344	67.4%	29.7%	2.9%	1977
Clark County	340	73.8%	26.2%	0%	1973
Warren County	336	58.6%	36%	5.4%	1981
Tuscarawas County (this page)	336	66.7%	31%	2.4%	1981
Mercer County	329	41.3%	55.9%	2.7%	1989

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (336 bridges here).

Jefferson County, AR · 336 bridges
Kane County, IL · 336 bridges
Charleston County, SC · 336 bridges
Fayette County, TN · 336 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1981 here).

Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges
Shawnee County, KS · avg 1981 · 563 bridges
Pottawattamie County, IA · avg 1981 · 557 bridges

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

All 336 Good 224 Fair 104 Poor 8

All bridges (336)

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Tuscarawas County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Tuscarawas County's Poor-condition bridges carry 12,488 vehicle crossings a day

46.7% of Tuscarawas County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 29.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Tuscarawas 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 (336)

WARREN 89-124

WASHINGTON CR 6

WASHINGTON CR 8

WASHINGTON CR 8

WASHINGTON TR 128

WAYNE CR 97

WAYNE TR 447

YORK T-333-272

CLAY TR 188

BARNHILL 68-501

DOVER TWP RD 374

GOSHEN CR 24

WARREN CR 90

SANDY CR 107

MILL TWP. RD. 292

SALEM TWP RD 214

SALEM TWP RD 217

AUBURN TWP RD 78

GOSHEN T324-264

GOSHEN T-314-261

JEFFERSON T243-243

PERRY TWP. RD. 151

PERRY TWP. RD. 153

SUGARCREEK CR 70

SUGARCREEK CR 70

WARREN 320-128

MIDVALE 64-538

IR 77

1ST ST & DENN CORP

WEST 3RD STREET

E 20TH STREET

WAYNE TWP ROAD 66

NEIGHBOR STREET

SR 800

SR 800

SR 800

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