Total bridges
207
Public highway bridges in Cabell County
County profile · official public datasets
Cabell County, WV
207 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 25.1% rated Good, 57.5% Fair, 17.4% Poor.
- 207
- Public bridges
- 25.1%
- Good condition
- 17.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Cabell County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 47%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 17.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 207
- public highway bridges
- 1984
- 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.
Cabell County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cabell County ranks #26 of 55 West Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 17.4%). Cabell County, West Virginia contains 207 public highway bridges. Roughly 25.1% are rated “Good,” 57.5% “Fair,” and 17.4% “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
25.1%
52 of 207 rated 7-9
Fair condition
57.5%
119 of 207 rated 5-6
Poor condition
17.4%
36 of 207 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#26 of 55
Among West Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 207 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 25.1% (52)
Fair 57.5% (119)
Poor 17.4% (36)
Cabell County's Poor-condition bridges carry 247,038 vehicle crossings a day
That is 14.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 17.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 6,862 crossings a day against 8,004 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 207 of 207 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
32.9% of Cabell County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
68 of the 207 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 25.1% 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 13.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
I 64 WB over Guyandotte R CR60/52&26, built 1959, carries 33,900 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 36-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 247,038 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Cabell County's bridges were built
207 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 13
1920–1929
13 bridges
- 1930s 5
1930–1939
5 bridges
- 1940s 8
1940–1949
8 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
21 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
19 bridges
- 1970s 11
1970–1979
11 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
24 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
35 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
30 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
27 bridges
- 2020s
2020–2029
14 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 35 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1984) matches the West Virginia average (1980).
How Cabell County compares with West Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 West Virginia counties nearest Cabell County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 17.4% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 6 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 54 West Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayette County | 211 | 19% | 67.8% | 13.3% | 1982 |
| Greenbrier County | 207 | 22.7% | 64.3% | 13% | 1979 |
| Cabell County (this page) | 207 | 25.1% | 57.5% | 17.4% | 1984 |
| Monongalia County | 203 | 36.9% | 42.9% | 20.2% | 1980 |
| Marion County | 193 | 48.2% | 30.6% | 21.2% | 1977 |
| Jackson County | 191 | 38.2% | 38.2% | 23.6% | 1973 |
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 Cabell 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 Cabell County, both outside West Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside WV (207 bridges here).
- Marin County, CA · 207 bridges
- Las Animas County, CO · 207 bridges
- Shelby County, IA · 207 bridges
- Washington County, IA · 207 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1984 here).
- Hennepin County, MN · avg 1984 · 936 bridges
- Duval County, FL · avg 1984 · 831 bridges
- El Paso County, CO · avg 1984 · 686 bridges
- Bell County, TX · avg 1984 · 660 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (207)
WILSON COURT
FairOver: FOURPOLE CREEK
0.02 MI N. OF FERGUSON CT, Cabell, WV
Built 1920 Load: 11.8 t ADT: 600
CR 10/20
FairOver: FOURPOLE CREEK
0.01 MILE WEST OF WV 10, Cabell, WV
Built 2002 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 2,300
HARVEY ROAD
FairOver: FOURPOLE CREEK
0.03 MI SOUTH OF MEM. BLV, Cabell, WV
Built 1925 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 900
CR 60/28
FairOver: Interstate 64
0.04 MI NORTH OF CR 60/91, Cabell, WV
Built 1960 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 250
CR 15
FairOver: RIGHT FORK OF LOWER CRK
0.01 MI SOUTH OF CR 9, Cabell, WV
Built 1922 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 900
CR 43
FairOver: RACCOON CREEK
1.40 MI SOUTH OF CR 43/1, Cabell, WV
Built 1929 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 200
CR 60/39
FairOver: INDIAN FORK
0.31 MI NORTH OF CR 25/1, Cabell, WV
Built 1935 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 900
CR 69
FairOver: RIGHT FK MERRITT CK
0.05 MI EAST OF WV 10, Cabell, WV
Built 1926 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 300
CR 27
FairOver: CHARLEY CREEK
0.01 MI SOUTH OF CR 38, Cabell, WV
Built 1940 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 900
CR 37
FairOver: I 64
0.27 MI SOUTH OF CR 52/1, Cabell, WV
Built 1963 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 550
WV 106
FairOver: OH 7(gov) WV 2 OH Rivr
0.67 MI NORTH OF US 60, Cabell, WV
Built 1985 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 12,738
CR 7
FairOver: NINEMILE CREEK
0.79 MI EAST OF WV 2, Cabell, WV
Built 1945 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 250
CR 7
FairOver: NINEMILE CREEK
00.7 MI WEST OF CR 7/1, Cabell, WV
Built 1949 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 150
CR 7/1
FairOver: PERRY CREEK
0.10 MI SOUTH OF CR 1, Cabell, WV
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 60
CR 60/70
FairOver: FOURPOLE CREEK
0.67 MI EAST OF CR 60/3, Cabell, WV
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,500
CR 68
FairOver: MERRITT CREEK
0.03 MI WEST OF WV 10, Cabell, WV
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 250
US 60
FairOver: FUDGES CREEK
0.08 MI WEST OF CR 60/10, Cabell, WV
Built 1954 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 12,500
COUNTY ROUTE 1
FairOver: MUD RIVER
0.04 MILE S.OF CR 1/10, Cabell, WV
Built 2003 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 2,700
WV 10
FairOver: Grapevine Branch
0.30 Miles North of CO 35, Cabell, WV
Built 2020 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 3,900
CR 1/1
FairOver: SPURLOCK CREEK
0.21 MILE WEST OF C R 1, Cabell, WV
Built 1997 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 250
WILSON COURT
FairOver: FOURPOLE CREEK
0.03 MI N OF FERGUSON CT, Cabell, WV
Built 1949 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 600
COUNTY ROUTE 60/1
FairOver: Interstate 64
0.38 MI E. OF C.R. 60/2, Cabell, WV
Built 2003 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 2,200
CR 9
FairOver: MILL CREEK
0.24 MI SOUTH OF CR 9/2, Cabell, WV
Built 1931 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 1,100
CR 9
FairOver: LOWER CREEK
0.04 MI SOUTH OF CR 18, Cabell, WV
Built 1931 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 400
CR 29
FairOver: FUDGES CREEK
0.04 MI SOUTH OF CR 34, Cabell, WV
Built 1929 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 450
I 64 EB
FairOver: COUNTY ROUTE 26
0.99 MI WEST OF CR 60/89, Cabell, WV
Built 1958 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 35,300
I 64 EB
FairOver: MUD RIVER AND CO RT 26/2
0.21 MI WEST OF CR 60/89, Cabell, WV
Built 1959 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 17,650
US 52
FairOver: US 60
0.85 MI NORTH OF I-64, Cabell, WV
Built 1966 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 16,800
WV ROUTE 152
FairOver: INTERSTATE 64
0.16 MI SOUTH OF WV 527, Cabell, WV
Built 2018 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 13,900
WV 10
FairOver: Grapevine Branch
0.25 MI North of CR 35, Cabell, WV
Built 2020 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 3,900
I64 EB
FairOver: CSX RR & MUD RIVER
2.02 MI. W. OF CR 13 EXIT, Cabell, WV
Built 1961 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 13,550
I64 WB
FairOver: CSX RAILROAD & MUD RIVER
2.02 MI. W. OF CR 13 ENTR, Cabell, WV
Built 1961 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 13,550
COUNTY ROUTE 9/1
FairOver: U.T. of Medley Fork
0.10 MI WEST OF CR 9, Cabell, WV
Built 2013 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 50
US 52
FairOver: OHIO RIVER
1.29 MI NORTH OF I-64, Cabell, WV
Built 1968 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 19,844
I64
FairOver: FUDGES CREEK
2.88 MILES E OF CR 60/89, Cabell, WV
Built 1959 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 40,700
DEER PARK ROAD
FairOver: CSX Railroad
0.20 mile N of CR 42/16, Cabell, WV
Built 2011 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 100
CR 17
FairOver: INTERSTATE 64
0.11 MI WEST OF CR 17/2, Cabell, WV
Built 1961 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 850
I64 WB
FairOver: US ROUTE 60
0.20 MI EAST OF CR 60/1, Cabell, WV
Built 1958 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 19,150
I64
FairOver: CSX RAILROAD
1.93 MI. EAST OF CR 60/89, Cabell, WV
Built 1998 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 13,550
I64
FairOver: CSX RAILROAD
1.93 MI. EAST OF CR 60/89, Cabell, WV
Built 1998 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 13,550
US 60
FairOver: GUYANDOTTE RIVER
0.08 MILE WEST OF CR 60/9, Cabell, WV
Built 1995 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 18,500
WV 2 TRUCK
FairOver: GUYANDOTTE RIVER
0.08 MILE EAST OF WV 2, Cabell, WV
Built 2012 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 6,800
WV 193 SB
FairOver: MUD RIVER
0.01 MI NORTH OF US 60, Cabell, WV
Built 1979 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 11,300
CR 25/7
FairOver: MUD RIVER
0.18 MI SOUTH OF US 60, Cabell, WV
Built 1976 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 3,500
CR 31/01
FairOver: GUYANDOTTE RIVER
0.01 MILE SOUTH OF US 60, Cabell, WV
Built 1998 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 1,000
CR 160/18
FairOver: I64 / Mall Access Road
0.10 MILE NORTH OF US 60, Cabell, WV
Built 1999 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 4,900
COUNTY ROUTE 24
FairOver: MERRICK CREEK
0.18 MILES NORTH OF CR 19, Cabell, WV
Built 2011 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 80
WV 2
FairOver: GUYANDOTTE RIVER
0.10 MI WEST OF US 60, Cabell, WV
Built 1976 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 7,100
I64 EB
FairOver: US ROUTE 60
0.20 MI EAST OF CR 60/1, Cabell, WV
Built 1958 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 19,150
COUNTY ROUTE 25/1
FairOver: INDIAN FORK
0.31 MI EAST OF CR 60/39, Cabell, WV
Built 2004 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 500
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