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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.

Total bridges

207

Public highway bridges in Cabell County

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

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).

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

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.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Cabell County and the 5 West Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Fayette County 211 13.3%
Greenbrier County 207 13%
Cabell County (this page) 207 17.4%
Monongalia County 203 20.2%
Marion County 193 21.2%
Jackson County 191 23.6%

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).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1984 here).

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

All 207 Good 52 Fair 119 Poor 36

Good-condition bridges (52)

CR 16

Good

Over: KILGORE CREEK

0.64 MI SOUTH OF CR 16/1, Cabell, WV

Built 1950 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 350

I64 EB & WB

Good

Over: Guyandotte R CO60/52&26

1.78 mi west of CO 60/89, Cabell, WV

Built 2023 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 33,900

I64 WB

Good

Over: Mud River and CO Rt 26/2

0.21 Mi West of CO 60/8, Cabell, WV

Built 2023 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 17,650

I64 WB

Good

Over: US Route 60

0.20 mile east of CO 60/1, Cabell, WV

Built 2022 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 33,900

CR 7

Good

Over: NINEMILE CREEK

0.40 MI EAST OF WV 2, Cabell, WV

Built 1988 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 350

I 64 WB ENTR RAMP

Good

Over: FOURPOLE CREEK

0.01 MILE WEST OF WV 10, Cabell, WV

Built 2014 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 3,400

County Route 160/4

Good

Over: Mud River

0.01 mile north of US 60, Cabell, WV

Built 2011 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 70

I 64 EB & WB

Good

Over: CR 60/89

1.69 mi east of CO 19, Cabell, WV

Built 2023 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 27,100

CR 42

Good

Over: DAVIS CREEK

0.01 MI S. OF WV ALT10, Cabell, WV

Built 2000 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 2,400

CR 25

Good

Over: TRACE CREEK

0.06 MI SOUTH OF CR 25/11, Cabell, WV

Built 1976 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 400

CR 1/11

Good

Over: BIG CABELL CREEK

0.93 MI N OF CR 1, Cabell, WV

Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 70

County Route 1

Good

Over: Spurlock Creek

0.08 mile South of CO 7/1, Cabell, WV

Built 2015 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 150

I 64 WB

Good

Over: WV Route 193

1.44 mile west of CO 60/8, Cabell, WV

Built 2022 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 39,300

WV 527

Good

Over: Fourpole

0.54 mile South of CO 101, Cabell, WV

Built 2022 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 11,700

I 64 WB

Good

Over: WV 10 FOURPOLE CREEK

2.74 miles east of WV 152, Cabell, WV

Built 2010 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 18,250

County Road 39

Good

Over: Grapevine Branch

0.02 MI WEST OF WV 10, Cabell, WV

Built 2019 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 1,000

COUNTY ROUTE 52/9

Good

Over: FOURPOLE CREEK

0.01 MILES S OF CR 160/29, Cabell, WV

Built 2003 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 10

INTERSTATE 64

Good

Over: County Route 13

0.44 MILES EAST OF C R 13, Cabell, WV

Built 2008 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 23,600

County route 36

Good

Over: Charley Creek

0.01 Miles from C.R. 38, Cabell, WV

Built 2011 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 100

I64 EXIT RAMP

Good

Over: Four Pole Creek

0.01 miles west of WV 10, Cabell, WV

Built 2014 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 3,300

I 64 EB

Good

Over: US 52

1.73 MI WEST OF WV 152, Cabell, WV

Built 2017 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 28,200

COUNTY ROUTE 19

Good

Over: RT FORK SEVEN MILE CK

0.09 MILE SOUTH OF WV 2, Cabell, WV

Built 2009 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,700

CR 25/11

Good

Over: MUD RIVER

0.01 MI EAST OF CR 25, Cabell, WV

Built 2015 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 30

I-64

Good

Over: County Route 52/6

0.30 MI WEST OF CR 37, Cabell, WV

Built 2022 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 36,500

I 64 EB

Good

Over: WV 10 FOURPOLE CREEK

2.74 miles east of WV 152, Cabell, WV

Built 2010 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 18,250

I64 WB

Good

Over: County Route 26

0.99 mile west of CO 60/8, Cabell, WV

Built 2022 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 35,300

COUNTY ROUTE 17

Good

Over: SEVENMILE CREEK

0.02 MILE EAST OF C.R. 11, Cabell, WV

Built 2013 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 500

CO 30

Good

Over: TOMS CREEK

0.11 mile north of CO 31, Cabell, WV

Built 2019 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 2,800

8th Street

Good

Over: FOURPOLE CREEK

0.01 MI SOUTH OF NORTH BL, Cabell, WV

Built 2022 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 1,000

COUNTY ROUTE 9

Good

Over: TRACE FORK

1.50 MILES NORTH OF C R 6, Cabell, WV

Built 2003 Load: 46.3 t ADT: 200

COUNTY ROUTE 10/11

Good

Over: RIGHT FORK OF DAVIS CK

0.22 MI. EAST OF WV 10, Cabell, WV

Built 2005 Load: 47.2 t ADT: 70

I 64 WB

Good

Over: US 52

1.73 MI WEST OF WV 152, Cabell, WV

Built 2017 Load: 47.2 t ADT: 32,400

I64 WB

Good

Over: Mud River

0.19 mi east of CO 60/89, Cabell, WV

Built 2022 Load: 47.2 t ADT: 16,750

WV 101

Good

Over: CSX RAILROAD

0.10 MILE SOUTH OF US 60E, Cabell, WV

Built 1997 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 5,200

COUNTY ROUTE 10/38

Good

Over: MERRITT CREEK

0.05 MILES N OF C R 10/5, Cabell, WV

Built 2010 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 10

CO 25

Good

Over: CHARLEY CREEK

0.37 MI SOUTH OF CR 36, Cabell, WV

Built 2021 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 1,100

CR 21

Good

Over: LOWER CREEK

0.01 MILE WEST OF CR 9, Cabell, WV

Built 1996 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 250

COUNTY ROUTE 31/6

Good

Over: GUYANDOTTE RIVER

0.01 MILES SOUTH OF CR 31, Cabell, WV

Built 2005 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 2,700

COUNTY ROUTE 42

Good

Over: CSX RAILROAD

0.01 MILE N. OF CR 42/3, Cabell, WV

Built 2006 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 1,400

COUNTY ROUTE 1/18

Good

Over: BIG HILL HOLLOW CREEK

0.01 MILE WEST OF C.R. 1, Cabell, WV

Built 2011 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 10

CR 43

Good

Over: LONG BRANCH

0.01 MI NORTH OF CR 42, Cabell, WV

Built 2015 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 1,200

CR 25

Good

Over: MUD RIVER

0.01 MI SOUTH OF CR 25/4, Cabell, WV

Built 1990 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 1,200

CR 66

Good

Over: SMITH CREEK

1.16 MI SOUTH OF WV 10, Cabell, WV

Built 1991 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 400

WEST VIRGINIA 10

Good

Over: MERRITT CREEK

0.01 MILES N OF CO 10/5, Cabell, WV

Built 2007 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 4,300

CR 27/2

Good

Over: CHARLEY CREEK

0.03 MI SOUTH OF CR 27/1, Cabell, WV

Built 1989 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 80

CR 49

Good

Over: MADISON CREEK

0.05 MI EAST OF CR 49/4, Cabell, WV

Built 1990 Load: 58.0 t ADT: 250

CR 29/2

Good

Over: FUDGES CREEK

0.02 MI. S. OF CR 29, Cabell, WV

Built 1987 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 30

CR 43/5

Good

Over: RACCOON CREEK

0.05 MI WEST OF CR 43, Cabell, WV

Built 1990 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 10

CR 48/1

Good

Over: FOURPOLE CREEK

0.01 MI WEST OF CR 48, Cabell, WV

Built 1990 Load: 61.7 t ADT: 50

County Route 29

Good

Over: Fudges Creek

1.2 mile south of U.S. 60, Cabell, WV

Built 2018 Load: 65.3 t ADT: 450

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