Total bridges
204
Public highway bridges in Bedford County
County profile · official public datasets
Bedford County, VA
204 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 52% rated Good, 45.1% Fair, 2.9% Poor.
- 204
- Public bridges
- 52%
- Good condition
- 2.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bedford County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 47%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 204
- 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.
Bedford County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bedford County ranks #61 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.9%). Bedford County, Virginia contains 204 public highway bridges. Roughly 52% are rated “Good,” 45.1% “Fair,” and 2.9% “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
52%
106 of 204 rated 7-9
Fair condition
45.1%
92 of 204 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.9%
6 of 204 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#61 of 129
Among Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 204 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 52% (106)
Fair 45.1% (92)
Poor 2.9% (6)
Bedford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,210 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 202 crossings a day against 1,443 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 204 of 204 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
56.9% of Bedford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
116 of the 204 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 52% 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 43.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
Village Dr 1460 over Br of Beaver Dam Ck, built 1985, carries 521 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 1,210 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bedford County's bridges were built
204 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
64 bridges
- 1940s 5
1940–1949
5 bridges
- 1950s 10
1950–1959
10 bridges
- 1960s 19
1960–1969
19 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
27 bridges
- 1980s 16
1980–1989
16 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
29 bridges
- 2000s 9
2000–2009
9 bridges
- 2010s 14
2010–2019
14 bridges
- 2020s 8
2020–2029
8 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 64 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 31.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1967, 7 years older than the Virginia average of 1974.
How Bedford County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Virginia counties nearest Bedford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.9% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1967 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke County | 204 | 37.7% | 62.3% | 0% | 1969 |
| Tazewell County | 204 | 21.6% | 74% | 4.4% | 1970 |
| Bedford County (this page) | 204 | 52% | 45.1% | 2.9% | 1967 |
| Botetourt County | 202 | 29.2% | 70.8% | 0% | 1968 |
| Norfolk city County | 199 | 15.6% | 84.4% | 0% | 1979 |
| Alleghany County | 197 | 27.9% | 68% | 4.1% | 1966 |
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 Bedford 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 Bedford County, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside VA (204 bridges here).
- Greene County, AL · 204 bridges
- Flathead County, MT · 204 bridges
- Pembina County, ND · 204 bridges
- Okfuskee County, OK · 204 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1967 here).
- Los Angeles County, CA · avg 1967 · 3,547 bridges
- Allegheny County, PA · avg 1967 · 1,294 bridges
- Sonoma County, CA · avg 1967 · 609 bridges
- Merced County, CA · avg 1967 · 528 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (106)
Union Church Road
GoodOver: Goose Creek
0.85 Rt 691 0.45 Rt 690, Bedford, VA
Built 1968 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 353
Chestnut Frk Rd731
GoodOver: Creasey Mill Creek
0.60 Rt 722; 0.80 Rt 735, Bedford, VA
Built 2005 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 73
Hardy Rd/634
GoodOver: Roanoke River
0.00 Frank.; 0.00 Bed. CL, Bedford, VA
Built 2019 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 3,741
Lankford MI Rd-644
GoodOver: Big Otter River
0.01-Rte 673;0.50-Rte 675, Bedford, VA
Built 2021 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 125
Otterville Rd 643
GoodOver: Oslin Creek
0.00 Rt 637; 0.00 Rt 639, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 52.6 t ADT: 223
Bells Mill Rd/ 706
GoodOver: Elk Creek
0.20 Rt 460; 2.32 Rt 668, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 152
Old Cifax Rd./644
GoodOver: Elk Creek
0.00-RT665W; 0.01-RT665E, Bedford, VA
Built 2011 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 686
Route 122
GoodOver: Goose Creek
1.98-Rt 24/6.83 Frnkln CL, Bedford, VA
Built 2020 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 6,386
Stony Creek Rd 766
GoodOver: Stony Creek
0.25 Rt 640; 1.95 D End, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 30
E.Ly.Sa.Tk 460 WBL
GoodOver: BIG OTTER RIVER
5.94 CMBL CO; 6.34 BEDFD, Bedford, VA
Built 1998 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 8,901
Claytor Mill Rd /7
GoodOver: Little Otter River
0.30 Rt 714;1.40 Rt 716, Bedford, VA
Built 2011 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 93
Altice Rd / 608
GoodOver: Trough Run
1.20 Rt 793; 1.30 Rt 122, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 339
Rocky Mtn Rd 657
GoodOver: Ivy Creek
3.60 Rt 652; 0.40 Rt 644, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 104
Forest Road 221
GoodOver: Big Otter River
0.16 Rt 830; 0.07 Rt 670, Bedford, VA
Built 1989 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 8,674
Rocky Ford Rd/684
GoodOver: Enochs Creek
2.20-RT 746 / 0.50-RT 753, Bedford, VA
Built 1999 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 38
Dowdy Crossing 731
GoodOver: Crab Orchard Creek
0.70 Rt 727; 1.20 Rt 626, Bedford, VA
Built 1967 Load: 58.1 t ADT: 36
JOPPA MILL Rd. 747
GoodOver: GOOSE CREEK
1.00-RTE 807;0.10-RTE 691, Bedford, VA
Built 1981 Load: 58.1 t ADT: 1,590
Goode Statn Rd.668
GoodOver: Chestnut Branch
1.00-RT 221;0.70-RT 643, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 885
Sheep Creek Rd 680
GoodOver: Br of Sheep Creek
0.60 Rt 684; 0.82 Rt 687, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 166
Teass Terrace/804
GoodOver: Nininger Creek
1.90-RT 714;0.30-DEAD END, Bedford, VA
Built 1987 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 50
Rucker Road / 806
GoodOver: Stony Fork
0.55 Rt 793; 2.20 Rt 801, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 65
BORE AUGER RD/699
GoodOver: BORE AUGER CREEK
2.70-RT 887; 0.55-RT 775, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 580
ROUTE 666
GoodOver: NS RAILWAY
3.25 Rt 622: 0.25 Rt 221, Bedford, VA
Built 2020 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 3,536
Route 622
GoodOver: NS Railway
0.00 Rt 810; 1.05 Rt 666, Bedford, VA
Built 2022 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 430
Sheep Crk Rd/614
GoodOver: Sheep Creek
0.20-RT 680;1.10-RT 687, Bedford, VA
Built 1994 Load: 61.7 t ADT: 88
Roaring Run Rd 670
GoodOver: Roaring Run
0.05 Rt 637; 0.45 Rt 221, Bedford, VA
Built 2004 Load: 61.7 t ADT: 426
Forbes Mill Rd 640
GoodOver: Br. of Big Otter River
0.40 Rt 122; 1.00 Rt 682, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 62.6 t ADT: 541
Timber Ridge Rd671
GoodOver: Norfolk Southern RR
0.90 Rt 786; 0.40 Rt 718, Bedford, VA
Built 1996 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 1,461
Hooper Road 662
GoodOver: Ivy Creek
0.40 Rt 1280; 0.70 Rt 621, Bedford, VA
Built 2004 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 1,296
Big Island Hwy
GoodOver: Big Otter River
0.10 Rte 640; 2.68 NCL BD, Bedford, VA
Built 2021 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 2,764
Hunting Cr. Rd/602
GoodOver: Hunting Creek
0.75-RT 122;0.85-Dead End, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 64.4 t ADT: 120
Bethesda Rd 707
GoodOver: Island Creek
1.20 Rt 24; 1.00 Rt 714, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 66.2 t ADT: 162
Ephesus Rd / 707
GoodOver: Fallen Creek
00.85 RT 715;01.30 RT 714, Bedford, VA
Built 1963 Load: 67.1 t ADT: 42
Peaks Rd/43
GoodOver: Stoney Creek
0.30 Rt 682S;0.27 Rt 682N, Bedford, VA
Built 2019 Load: 67.1 t ADT: 2,016
Goose Ck Vy Rd 695
GoodOver: Day Creek
0.40 Rt 741; 0.70 Rt 812, Bedford, VA
Built 1997 Load: 70.8 t ADT: 785
McDaniel Rd723
GoodOver: Nininger Creek
.14 Rte 43; 1.42 Rte 722, Bedford, VA
Built 2008 Load: 70.8 t ADT: 58
Hunting Crk Rd 602
GoodOver: Hunting Creek
0.45 Rt 122; 1.15 D END, Bedford, VA
Built 1999 Load: 71.7 t ADT: 170
LeeJackson Hwy 501
GoodOver: Cabin Creek
0.05 Rt 613; 0.00 Rt 612, Bedford, VA
Built 1986 Load: 72.6 t ADT: 2,280
Goode Road 668
GoodOver: Elk Creek
0.92-RT 706; 0.90 RT 1405, Bedford, VA
Built 1999 Load: 74.4 t ADT: 868
Meadows Mill R 850
GoodOver: Stony Creek
0.00 D END; 0.30 Rt 640, Bedford, VA
Built 1992 Load: 75.3 t ADT: 48
JORDANTOWN RD/619
GoodOver: BR BEAVERDAM CREEK
0.0 Rt 1320; 0.05 Rt 1460, Bedford, VA
Built 2022 Load: 77.1 t ADT: 2,951
Feldspar Road 654
GoodOver: Mill Creek
0.60-RT 805;1.80-RT 743, Bedford, VA
Built 1996 Load: 78.0 t ADT: 502
ST. Helena Rd. 808
GoodOver: Falling Creek
01.55 RT 715;00.85 RT 714, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 78.9 t ADT: 18
Jordantown Rd 619
GoodOver: Bore Auger Creek
0.55 Rt 699; 0.10 Rt 616, Bedford, VA
Built 1995 Load: 81.6 t ADT: 1,596
Murrells Gap R 680
GoodOver: North Fork Goose Creek
0.05 Rt 695; 3.95 Rt 614, Bedford, VA
Built 1992 Load: 83.5 t ADT: 53
GooseCkValleyRd695
GoodOver: Br of N Fork of Goose Ck
0.10 Rt 693; 0.60 Rt 696, Bedford, VA
Built 1996 Load: 88.0 t ADT: 785
Tolers Ferry R 608
GoodOver: Howells Creek
3.65 RT 872; 4.00 Pitt Co, Bedford, VA
Built 1963 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 357
PattersonMillRd680
GoodOver: Br of Little Otter River
0.10 Rt 460; 2.90 Rt 681, Bedford, VA
Built 1972 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 504
Wheatland Rd / 680
GoodOver: Br of Little Otter River
0.05 Rt 460; 2.45 Rt 744, Bedford, VA
Built 1932 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 410
Coffee Road 644
GoodOver: Ivy Creek
0.95 Rt 621; 0.01 Rt 657, Bedford, VA
Built 1995 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 269
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