Total bridges
158
Public highway bridges in Pike County
County profile · official public datasets
Pike County, PA
158 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 35.4% rated Good, 38.6% Fair, 25.9% Poor.
- 158
- Public bridges
- 35.4%
- Good condition
- 25.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pike County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 65th
- of 67 on Poor share
- 25.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 158
- public highway bridges
- 1971
- 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 #65 of 67 Pennsylvania counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 25.9%). Pike County, Pennsylvania contains 158 public highway bridges. Roughly 35.4% are rated “Good,” 38.6% “Fair,” and 25.9% “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.
Good condition
35.4%
56 of 158 rated 7-9
Fair condition
38.6%
61 of 158 rated 5-6
Poor condition
25.9%
41 of 158 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#65 of 67
Among Pennsylvania counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 158 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 35.4% (56)
Fair 38.6% (61)
Poor 25.9% (41)
Pike County's Poor-condition bridges carry 76,280 vehicle crossings a day
That is 15% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 25.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,860 crossings a day against 4,441 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 158 of 158 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
65.8% of Pike County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
104 of the 158 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 35.4% 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 22.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR 0006 TR 6 over DELAWARE RIVER, built 1939, carries 16,932 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 41-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 76,280 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
158 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 2
Built before 1900
2 bridges
- 1910s 3
1910–1919
3 bridges
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1930s 14
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1940s 9
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
40 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
29 bridges
- 1970s 6
1970–1979
6 bridges
- 1980s 3
1980–1989
3 bridges
- 1990s 7
1990–1999
7 bridges
- 2000s 3
2000–2009
3 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
29 bridges
- 2020s 10
2020–2029
10 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 40 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 25.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1971) matches the Pennsylvania average (1970).
How Pike County compares with Pennsylvania's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Pennsylvania counties nearest Pike County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 25.9% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Pennsylvania counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarion County | 172 | 27.9% | 64% | 8.1% | 1974 |
| Juniata County | 169 | 30.2% | 56.2% | 13.6% | 1969 |
| Union County | 163 | 50.9% | 44.8% | 4.3% | 1969 |
| Snyder County | 161 | 47.2% | 47.2% | 5.6% | 1966 |
| Fulton County | 159 | 32.1% | 56% | 11.9% | 1967 |
| Pike County (this page) | 158 | 35.4% | 38.6% | 25.9% | 1971 |
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 Pennsylvania so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PA (158 bridges here).
- Napa County, CA · 158 bridges
- Wells County, IN · 158 bridges
- Jackson County, MI · 158 bridges
- Yalobusha County, MS · 158 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PA (1971 here).
- Wayne County, MI · avg 1971 · 1,026 bridges
- Baltimore County, MD · avg 1971 · 783 bridges
- Linn County, OR · avg 1971 · 566 bridges
- Monmouth County, NJ · avg 1971 · 505 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (158)
SR 0402 TR 402
PoorOver: INDIAN CABIN RUN
PORTER TWP 2.2M N SR 2004, Pike, PA
Built 1932 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 1,584
SR 1014
PoorOver: WESTCOLANG CREEK
LACKAWXN TP 2.8M W TR 590, Pike, PA
Built 1957 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 701
SR 1003
PoorOver: TAYLORTOWN CREEK
LACKAWXN TWP 241N SR1002, Pike, PA
Built 1958 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 592
T440 (TWP. BR. 2)
PoorOver: TRIB. TO SHOHOLA CREEK
1 MI S OF SR 434, Pike, PA
Built 1956 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 50
SR 0590 TR 590
PoorOver: SWAMP BROOK CREEK
LACKAWAX TWP 64 E SR4010, Pike, PA
Built 1958 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 2,932
SR 0006 TR 6
PoorOver: SAWKILL CREEK
DINGMAN TWP 2.3 M W I-84, Pike, PA
Built 1957 Load: 52.6 t ADT: 8,574
SR 2001 MILFORD RD
PoorOver: HORNBECK CREEK
DELAWARE TWP .6M S SR2002, Pike, PA
Built 1936 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 867
SR 2001
PoorOver: DINGMANS CREEK
DELAWARE TWP .4M S SR2004, Pike, PA
Built 1939 Load: 65.8 t ADT: 1,290
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