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Crawford County, PA

399 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 35.6% rated Good, 46.9% Fair, 17.5% Poor.

399
Public bridges: 35.6%
Good condition: 17.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Crawford County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

54th
of 67 on Poor share: 17.5%
Poor-condition share: 399
public highway bridges: 1965
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.

Crawford County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Crawford County ranks #54 of 67 Pennsylvania counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 17.5%). Crawford County, Pennsylvania contains 399 public highway bridges. Roughly 35.6% are rated “Good,” 46.9% “Fair,” and 17.5% “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.

Total bridges

399

Public highway bridges in Crawford County

Good condition

35.6%

142 of 399 rated 7-9

Fair condition

46.9%

187 of 399 rated 5-6

Poor condition

17.5%

70 of 399 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#54 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 399 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

35.6% (142)

Fair

46.9% (187)

Poor

17.5% (70)

Crawford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 84,924 vehicle crossings a day

That is 11.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 17.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,213 crossings a day against 1,667 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 399 of 399 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

60.4% of Crawford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

241 of the 399 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 35.6% 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 12.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR 6 GRAND ARMY HY over OVER WATSON RUN, built 1939, carries 10,524 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 70-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 84,924 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

11
1900s

18
1910s

17
1920s

12
1930s

41
1940s

20
1950s

41
1960s

68
1970s

21
1980s

33
1990s

39
2000s

32
2010s

41
2020s

5

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 68 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1965, 5 years older than the Pennsylvania average of 1970.

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

The 5 Pennsylvania counties nearest Crawford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 17.5% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1965 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Crawford County and the 5 Pennsylvania counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Bedford County	417	30%	60.9%	9.1%	1965
Bradford County	399	43.4%	46.6%	10%	1971
Crawford County (this page)	399	35.6%	46.9%	17.5%	1965
Delaware County	387	24.5%	63.6%	11.9%	1968
Lehigh County	381	29.4%	59.3%	11.3%	1966
Butler County	378	29.9%	55.8%	14.3%	1975

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PA (399 bridges here).

Wichita County, TX · 399 bridges
Muskogee County, OK · 398 bridges
Sumner County, TN · 398 bridges
San Luis Obispo County, CA · 401 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PA (1965 here).

Windsor County, VT · avg 1965 · 483 bridges
Harper County, KS · avg 1965 · 372 bridges
Caledonia County, VT · avg 1965 · 247 bridges
Macoupin County, IL · avg 1965 · 242 bridges

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

All 399 Good 142 Fair 187 Poor 70

Fair-condition bridges (187)

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Crawford County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Crawford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 84,924 vehicle crossings a day

60.4% of Crawford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 12.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Crawford 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

Fair-condition bridges (187)

BLUE FALLS ROAD

SR 2040 SPRING ST.

T-315 MATTOCKS ROA

SR 1014 JOHNSTOWN

T-878 BRITTON R.RD

SR 19 PERRY HWY

SR 27 WASHINGTON

SR 1001 PARK AVE.

SR 2036 HCKRY.CRNR

SR 1018 ARMSTRONG

SR 2034 ROGERS FRY

SR 27 WASHINGTON

SR 77 MAIN STREET

SR 18

SR 4012 SHADELAND

SR 1016 BROWN HILL

SR 198

SR 1018 TOWNVILLE

SR 1011 MYSTIC PK.

SR 1018 GUYS MILL

SR 2016 SHOEMAKER

SR 1030 OLD VALLEY

SR 2010 FRANKLIN

SR 3021 KRIDER RD

SR 4012 SHADELAND

GARDEN STREET

SR 1007 BROWN HILL

SR 1014 JOHNSTOWN

T-922 HATCHTOWN RD

SR 27 STATE ST.

SR 27 NORTH STREET

T-657 GERMAN ROAD

SR 99 FOREST ST.

T-368 SPRING ROAD

SR 1018 ARMSTRONG

SR 3025 KENNEDY HL

T-348 COLE ROAD

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