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Wayne County, PA

259 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 27% rated Good, 41.7% Fair, 31.3% Poor.

259
Public bridges
27%
Good condition
31.3%
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.

67th
of 67 on Poor share
31.3%
Poor-condition share
259
public highway bridges
1967
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 #67 of 67 Pennsylvania counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 31.3%). Wayne County, Pennsylvania contains 259 public highway bridges. Roughly 27% are rated “Good,” 41.7% “Fair,” and 31.3% “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

259

Public highway bridges in Wayne County

Good condition

27%

70 of 259 rated 7-9

Fair condition

41.7%

108 of 259 rated 5-6

Poor condition

31.3%

81 of 259 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#67 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 259 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
27% (70)
Fair
41.7% (108)
Poor
31.3% (81)

Wayne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 52,113 vehicle crossings a day

That is 15.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 31.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 643 crossings a day against 1,217 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 259 of 259 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

64.1% of Wayne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

166 of the 259 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 27% 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 15.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR 0006 TR 6 over MIDDLE CREEK, built 1958, carries 7,850 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 81-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 52,113 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

259 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 50 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1967) matches the Pennsylvania average (1970).

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

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

The 5 Pennsylvania counties nearest Wayne County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 31.3% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1967 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Wayne County and the 5 Pennsylvania counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Columbia County 271 10%
Lawrence County 265 11.3%
Armstrong County 263 8%
Wayne County (this page) 259 31.3%
Adams County 254 6.7%
Huntingdon County 238 10.9%

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 Pennsylvania so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PA (259 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PA (1967 here).

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

All 259 Good 70 Fair 108 Poor 81

Good-condition bridges (70)

T-677

Good

Over: North Branch Calkins Crk

HIGH BRIDGE, Wayne, PA

Built 2007 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 55

SR 3005 FORKS BRDG

Good

Over: WEST BR WALLENPAUPACK CR

STERLING TWP .6 M N I-84, Wayne, PA

Built 2009 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 78

US 6

Good

Over: LACKAWAXEN RIVER

HONESDALE BORO JCT 191, Wayne, PA

Built 2009 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 9,749

TR635 WHITELIGH RO

Good

Over: SOUTH BRANCH EQUINUNK CR

TR635 WHITELEIGH RD/S BRA, Wayne, PA

Built 2013 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 10

SR 0670 TR 670

Good

Over: JOHNSON CREEK

MT PLSANT TWP 2M N TR 247, Wayne, PA

Built 1993 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 400

SR 3028 OWEGO TPK

Good

Over: MIDDLE CREEK

PALMYRA TWP 300 W SR2004, Wayne, PA

Built 1998 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 2,606

SR 4008 NIAGRA DR.

Good

Over: OUTLET TO HOWELL POND

0.2 MILES WEST OF TR 247, Wayne, PA

Built 2007 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 45

SR 3041

Good

Over: LACKAWAXEN RIVER

TEXAS TWP 300 S SR 3032, Wayne, PA

Built 1994 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 161

SR 4012

Good

Over: SHADIGEE CREEK

STARRUCCA B 1.5M E SR4014, Wayne, PA

Built 1992 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 150

SR 3006

Good

Over: ARIEL CREEK

SALEM TWP. .2 M N SR 3013, Wayne, PA

Built 2009 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 582

SR 0006 TR 6

Good

Over: HOLBERT CREEK

TEXAS TWP .1 M W SR 2009, Wayne, PA

Built 2000 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 13,350

SR 2004

Good

Over: MIDDLE CREEK

PALMYRA TWP 1 M W TR 6, Wayne, PA

Built 2010 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 631

SR 0590 TR 590

Good

Over: WALLENPAUPACK CREEK

SALEM TWP .4 M S TR 690, Wayne, PA

Built 1994 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 1,077

SR 3015 FINN SWAMP

Good

Over: PURDY CREEK

PAUPACK TWP .5M S SR 2002, Wayne, PA

Built 1988 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 537

SR 0191 TR 191

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

DRHER TWP .2M S OF TR 507, Wayne, PA

Built 2007 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 2,314

TR539 YARNES ROAD

Good

Over: TRIBUTARY 06406 WEST BRA

1/4 MI WEST BELMONT TPK, Wayne, PA

Built 2017 Load: 69.9 t ADT: 10

STEPHANO ROAD

Good

Over: TRIBUTARY 32235 SHADIGEE

300FT S SHADIGEE CR RD, Wayne, PA

Built 2016 Load: 72.6 t ADT: 25

SR 1031 GALILEE RD

Good

Over: BEAVER DAM CREEK

DAMASCUS TWP 2 M N TR 371, Wayne, PA

Built 1940 Load: 75.3 t ADT: 314

SR 3034

Good

Over: MIDDLE CREEK

SO CANAAN TWP 185W TR296, Wayne, PA

Built 2008 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 44

SR 0296 TR 296

Good

Over: MIDDLE CREEK

LAKE TWP .1 M S TR 196, Wayne, PA

Built 2002 Load: 95.3 t ADT: 991

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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.