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Appomattox County, VA

68 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 45.6% rated Good, 52.9% Fair, 1.5% Poor.

68
Public bridges: 45.6%
Good condition: 1.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Appomattox County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 31%
lowest Poor share in state: 1.5%
Poor-condition share: 68
public highway bridges: 1975
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.

Appomattox County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Appomattox County ranks #40 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.5%). Appomattox County, Virginia contains 68 public highway bridges. Roughly 45.6% are rated “Good,” 52.9% “Fair,” and 1.5% “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

Public highway bridges in Appomattox County

Good condition

45.6%

31 of 68 rated 7-9

Fair condition

52.9%

36 of 68 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.5%

1 of 68 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#40 of 129

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

Condition distribution

Share of 68 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

45.6% (31)

Fair

52.9% (36)

Poor

1.5% (1)

Appomattox County's Poor-condition bridges carry 305 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 305 crossings a day against 869 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 68 of 68 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

51.5% of Appomattox County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

35 of the 68 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 45.6% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

Spring Grove Road over Buck Creek, built 1950, carries 305 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 305 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

9
1940s

4
1950s

4
1960s

13
1970s

8
1980s

5
1990s

13
2000s

6
2010s

6

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 13 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Virginia average (1974).

How Appomattox County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Virginia counties nearest Appomattox County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.5% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 7 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Appomattox County and the 5 Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Dickenson County	76	7.9%	90.8%	1.3%	1970
Bath County	73	26%	67.1%	6.8%	1955
Buckingham County	72	45.8%	51.4%	2.8%	1971
Orange County	71	26.8%	70.4%	2.8%	1970
Appomattox County (this page)	68	45.6%	52.9%	1.5%	1975
Nottoway County	67	35.8%	59.7%	4.5%	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 Appomattox 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 Appomattox County, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside VA (68 bridges here).

Bent County, CO · 68 bridges
Columbia County, GA · 68 bridges
Talbot County, GA · 68 bridges
Wilcox County, GA · 68 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1975 here).

San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges

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

All 68 Good 31 Fair 36 Poor 1

All bridges (68)

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Appomattox County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Appomattox County's Poor-condition bridges carry 305 vehicle crossings a day

51.5% of Appomattox County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Appomattox County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (68)

Mt. Pleasant Road

Looner Den Road

South Fork Road

Spencer Road

Hixburg Road

Colemans Mill Road

Dreaming Creek Rd.

Trent Hatchery Rd.

Walnut Hill Road

Spring Grove Rd.

Stonewall Road

Hollywood Road

Old Courthouse Rd

Bellview Road

Paradise Road

Hummingbird Lane

Arrowhead Road

Oakville Road

Old Bethany Road

Webb Mill Road

Oakville Road

River Ridge Road

Pumping Station Rd

Buck Creek Road

Oakville Road

Poorhouse Creek Rd

Double Bridges Rd.

Double Bridges Rd.

Salem Rd

Redfields Road

Ferguson Street

Mountain Cut Road

Holiday Lake Road

Confederate Blvd.

Liberty Chapel Rd.

Pumping Station Rd

Old Courthouse Rd.

Oakville Road

Mill Pond Rd.

Hixburg Road

Anderson Hwy.

Wheeler Spring Rd.

County Line Road

Watt Abbitt Rd.

Chilton Road

Forbes Road

Little Cub Road

John Anderson Hwy.

River Ridge Road

Rock Spring Road

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