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Cameron County, PA

62 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.5% rated Good, 48.4% Fair, 8.1% Poor.

62
Public bridges: 43.5%
Good condition: 8.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Cameron County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 21%
lowest Poor share in state: 8.1%
Poor-condition share: 62
public highway bridges: 1979
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.

Cameron County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cameron County ranks #14 of 67 Pennsylvania counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.1%). Cameron County, Pennsylvania contains 62 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.5% are rated “Good,” 48.4% “Fair,” and 8.1% “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

Public highway bridges in Cameron County

Good condition

43.5%

27 of 62 rated 7-9

Fair condition

48.4%

30 of 62 rated 5-6

Poor condition

8.1%

5 of 62 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#14 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 62 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

43.5% (27)

Fair

48.4% (30)

Poor

8.1% (5)

Cameron County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,926 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 482 crossings a day against 435 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 61 of 62 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

41.9% of Cameron County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

26 of the 62 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 43.5% 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 81.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR 155-PA 155 over PORTAGE CREEK, built 1941, carries 1,571 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 1,926 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

1
1920s

2
1930s

5
1940s

7
1950s

3
1960s

6
1970s

2
1980s

6
1990s

9
2000s

10
2010s

8
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 10 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1979, 9 years newer than the Pennsylvania average of 1970.

How Cameron County compares with Pennsylvania's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Pennsylvania counties nearest Cameron County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.1% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 11 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 66 Pennsylvania counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Cameron County and the 5 Pennsylvania counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Carbon County	134	20.9%	60.4%	18.7%	1960
Elk County	127	39.4%	49.6%	11%	1973
Sullivan County	119	43.7%	47.1%	9.2%	1967
Montour County	108	50%	44.4%	5.6%	1968
Forest County	71	35.2%	52.1%	12.7%	1974
Cameron County (this page)	62	43.5%	48.4%	8.1%	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 Cameron 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 Cameron County, both outside Pennsylvania so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PA (62 bridges here).

Conejos County, CO · 62 bridges
Pitkin County, CO · 62 bridges
Gulf County, FL · 62 bridges
Pickens County, GA · 62 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PA (1979 here).

Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges

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

All 62 Good 27 Fair 30 Poor 5

Good-condition bridges (27)

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Cameron County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Cameron County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,926 vehicle crossings a day

41.9% of Cameron County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 81.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Cameron County compares with Pennsylvania'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 (27)

ON TSR 301

SR 0555

T-345

ON TSR 301

Bucktail Trail Hwy

BROOKS STATE HOUSE

SR 155 - PA 155

SR 3001

HEMLOCK ROAD

SR 120-PA 120

RED RUN ROAD

SR 555-PA555

SR 4004

West Hicks Run Rd

MAIN PARK ROAD

T-302

BROOKS RUN ROAD

RED RUN ROAD

SR 120-PA 120

SR 120-PA 120

Karthaus Mtn Road

MAIN PARK ROAD

SR 2001

T-353

SR 120-PA 120

SR 2001

T 1005

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