Total bridges
10
Public highway bridges in Middlesex County
County profile · official public datasets
Middlesex County, VA
10 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 30% rated Good, 60% Fair, 10% Poor.
- 10
- Public bridges
- 30%
- Good condition
- 10%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Middlesex County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- 114th
- of 129 on Poor share
- 10%
- Poor-condition share
- 10
- public highway bridges
- 1970
- 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.
Middlesex County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Middlesex County ranks #114 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10%). Middlesex County, Virginia contains 10 public highway bridges. Roughly 30% are rated “Good,” 60% “Fair,” and 10% “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
30%
3 of 10 rated 7-9
Fair condition
60%
6 of 10 rated 5-6
Poor condition
10%
1 of 10 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#114 of 129
Among Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 10 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 30% (3)
Fair 60% (6)
Poor 10% (1)
Middlesex County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,276 vehicle crossings a day
That is 17.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 5,276 crossings a day against 243 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 10 of 10 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
60% of Middlesex County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
6 of the 10 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 30% 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
NBL GEO. WASH. PWY over DRAGON RUN, built 1931, carries 5,276 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 5,276 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Middlesex County's bridges were built
10 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
4 bridges
- 1960s 1
1960–1969
1 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 1980s 1
1980–1989
1 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 4 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 40% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1970) matches the Virginia average (1974).
How Middlesex County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Virginia counties nearest Middlesex County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1970 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northampton County | 12 | 75% | 16.7% | 8.3% | 1981 |
| Williamsburg city County | 12 | 41.7% | 50% | 8.3% | 1959 |
| Martinsville city County | 10 | 40% | 60% | 0% | 1976 |
| Middlesex County (this page) | 10 | 30% | 60% | 10% | 1970 |
| Colonial Heights city County | 9 | 0% | 88.9% | 11.1% | 1986 |
| Lancaster County | 9 | 22.2% | 66.7% | 11.1% | 1959 |
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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex County, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside VA (10 bridges here).
- Lake and Peninsula County, AK · 10 bridges
- Gilchrist County, FL · 10 bridges
- Storey County, NV · 10 bridges
- Lea County, NM · 10 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1970 here).
- Hamilton County, OH · avg 1970 · 783 bridges
- Yavapai County, AZ · avg 1970 · 543 bridges
- Garfield County, OK · avg 1970 · 504 bridges
- San Luis Obispo County, CA · avg 1970 · 401 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (10)
ROUTE 0227
FairOver: URBANNA CREEK
0.0M SCLURBANA-2.4M RTE33, Middlesex, VA
Built 1957 Load: 29.7 t ADT: 3,219
TWIGGS FERRY ROAD
FairOver: PIANKATANK RIVER @
MATHEWS-MIDDLESEX C. LINE, Middlesex, VA
Built 1953 Load: 30.5 t ADT: 7,161
ROUTE 0003
FairOver: RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER @
MIDSEX.- LANC. CO.LINE, Middlesex, VA
Built 1957 Load: 39.8 t ADT: 7,559
FARLEY PARK ROAD
FairOver: DRAGON RUN
MIDSEX.-K.&Q.CO.LINE, Middlesex, VA
Built 1975 Load: 49.2 t ADT: 577
SBL GEO. WASH. PWY
FairOver: DRAGON RUN
MIDSEX-GLOUCESTER CL, Middlesex, VA
Built 1957 Load: 59.2 t ADT: 5,276
OLD VIRGINIA ST.
FairOver: HILLIARDS MILL
1.0M RTE610-1.2M RTE637, Middlesex, VA
Built 1963 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 1,134
BAY POINT ROAD
GoodOver: MASONS MILL STREAM
0.5M RTE605-0.3M DEAD END, Middlesex, VA
Built 1987 Load: 49.1 t ADT: 106
BARRICKS MILL RD.
GoodOver: BARRICKS POND
0.6M RTE624-0.9M RTE626, Middlesex, VA
Built 2021 Load: 61.6 t ADT: 320
STORMONT ROAD
GoodOver: MY LADYS SWAMP
0.8M RTE619-0.8M RTE667, Middlesex, VA
Built 2001 Load: 66.9 t ADT: 303
NBL GEO. WASH. PWY
PoorOver: DRAGON RUN
MIDSEX-GLOUCESTER CL, Middlesex, VA
Built 1931 Load: 26.5 t ADT: 5,276
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