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Wayne County, OH

391 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 59.3% rated Good, 33.8% Fair, 6.9% Poor.

391
Public bridges
59.3%
Good condition
6.9%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

64th
of 88 on Poor share
6.9%
Poor-condition share
391
public highway bridges
1976
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.

Wayne County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wayne County ranks #64 of 88 Ohio counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.9%). Wayne County, Ohio contains 391 public highway bridges. Roughly 59.3% are rated “Good,” 33.8% “Fair,” and 6.9% “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

391

Public highway bridges in Wayne County

Good condition

59.3%

232 of 391 rated 7-9

Fair condition

33.8%

132 of 391 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.9%

27 of 391 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#64 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 391 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
59.3% (232)
Fair
33.8% (132)
Poor
6.9% (27)

Wayne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 20,281 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 751 crossings a day against 2,898 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 391 of 391 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

45.5% of Wayne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

178 of the 391 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 59.3% 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 34.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

USR 250 over BR OF APPLE CREEK, built 1956, carries 6,936 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 27-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 20,281 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Wayne County's bridges were built

391 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 71 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Ohio average (1977).

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

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

The 5 Ohio counties nearest Wayne County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.9% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Wayne County and the 5 Ohio counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Stark County 415 5.5%
Wayne County (this page) 391 6.9%
Trumbull County 383 10.2%
Butler County 377 4.8%
Scioto County 376 5.1%
Allen County 367 9.8%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OH (391 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OH (1976 here).

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

All 391 Good 232 Fair 132 Poor 27

Good-condition bridges (232)

SR 21

Good

Over: OVER CHI-116-0620 CH

.88 MI N STARK CO LINE, Wayne, OH

Built 1962 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 7,162

TWP. ROAD 186

Good

Over: KILLBUCK CREEK

1.0 MI. S. OF SR604, Wayne, OH

Built 1991 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 108

TWP. ROAD 163

Good

Over: APPLE CREEK

0.3 MILE EAST OF CR54, Wayne, OH

Built 2007 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 236

COUNTY ROAD 149

Good

Over: KISER DITCH

1.0 MI. S. OF SR95, Wayne, OH

Built 1991 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 808

COUNTY ROAD 438

Good

Over: SALT CREEK

0.3 MI. W. OF CR501, Wayne, OH

Built 1990 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 1,279

TWP. ROAD 197

Good

Over: BRANCH OF SALT CREEK

1.0 MI. S. OF CR 2, Wayne, OH

Built 1995 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 132

Twp. Road 129

Good

Over: SUGAR CREEK

0.6 mile north of US30, Wayne, OH

Built 2015 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 691

TRIWAY LANE

Good

Over: BRANCH OF KILLBUCK CREEK

0.1 MILE WEST OF TR76, Wayne, OH

Built 2007 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 143

SR 21

Good

Over: OVER CSXT RR

1.42 MI N OF STARK CO, Wayne, OH

Built 1957 Load: 49.2 t ADT: 7,162

SR 83

Good

Over: BR.OF JENNINGS DITCH

5.44 MI N OF HOLMES CO, Wayne, OH

Built 1984 Load: 50.2 t ADT: 3,834

IR 71

Good

Over: MUDDY FORK

1.4 MI S OF SR301, Wayne, OH

Built 1959 Load: 51.8 t ADT: 22,373

IR 71

Good

Over: MUDDY FORK

1.4 MI S OF SR301, Wayne, OH

Built 1959 Load: 51.8 t ADT: 22,373

COUNTY ROAD 416

Good

Over: LITTLE SUGAR CREEK

0.1 MILE WEST OF CR84, Wayne, OH

Built 2013 Load: 51.8 t ADT: 71

COUNTY ROAD 51

Good

Over: KILLBUCK CREEK

0.2 MI. N. OF CR70, Wayne, OH

Built 2000 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 435

TOWNSHIP ROAD 98

Good

Over: CRABAPPLE CREEK

0.3 MILE NORTH OF SR241, Wayne, OH

Built 2004 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 620

Twp. Route 334

Good

Over: Br. of Sugar Creek

0.3 mile west of CR 103, Wayne, OH

Built 2020 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 296

COUNTY ROAD 184

Good

Over: BRANCH OF CLEAR CREEK

0.2 MI. E. OF CR22, Wayne, OH

Built 1998 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 2,468

COUNTY ROAD 176

Good

Over: JENNINGS DITCH LATERAL

0.1 MI. S. OF TIMKEN ROAD, Wayne, OH

Built 2009 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 4,401

IR 71

Good

Over: OVER CON-070-0332 C

3.71 MILES NORTH OF SR539, Wayne, OH

Built 1959 Load: 58.3 t ADT: 23,540

IR 71

Good

Over: OVER CON-070-0336 C

3.71 MILES NORTH OF SR539, Wayne, OH

Built 1959 Load: 58.3 t ADT: 23,540

COUNTY ROAD 29

Good

Over: LITTLE CHIPPEWA CREEK

0.5 MI. W. OF SR57, Wayne, OH

Built 1955 Load: 58.3 t ADT: 2,564

SR 83

Good

Over: BR.OF KILLBUCK CREEK

0.54 MILES S.OF I.R.71, Wayne, OH

Built 2004 Load: 59.6 t ADT: 6,816

SR 604

Good

Over: MUDDY FORK OF MOHICAN RI

Ashland / Wayne Co. line, Wayne, OH

Built 1963 Load: 61.6 t ADT: 610

COUNTY ROAD 70

Good

Over: KILLBUCK CREEK

200 FEET W. OF SR83, Wayne, OH

Built 1992 Load: 64.8 t ADT: 864

COUNTY ROAD 70

Good

Over: FALL CREEK

0.4 MILE EAST OF CR60, Wayne, OH

Built 2004 Load: 64.8 t ADT: 593

COUNTY ROAD 109

Good

Over: S. BRANCHY OF SALT CREEK

0.4 MI. E. OF CR501, Wayne, OH

Built 1990 Load: 64.8 t ADT: 327

COUNTY ROAD 54

Good

Over: SUGAR CREEK

0.3 MI. N. OF CR86, Wayne, OH

Built 1997 Load: 67.4 t ADT: 1,368

COUNTY ROAD 98

Good

Over: SUGAR CREEK

0.5 MI. S. OF CR42, Wayne, OH

Built 1990 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 1,125

SAYBOLT AVE.

Good

Over: CHRISTMAS RUN CREEK

750 FT. W. OF GRANT ST., Wayne, OH

Built 1977 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 1,600

SR 226

Good

Over: SMALL CREEK

0.66 MI E HOLMS CO LINE, Wayne, OH

Built 1986 Load: 69.0 t ADT: 2,626

County Road 206

Good

Over: Silver Creek

0.1 Mile East of CR61, Wayne, OH

Built 2014 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 2,609

COUNTY ROAD 34

Good

Over: MILLBROOK RUN

0.5 MILE SOUTHEAST OF SR3, Wayne, OH

Built 2012 Load: 84.2 t ADT: 182

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.