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Hampshire County, WV

92 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 23.9% rated Good, 65.2% Fair, 10.9% Poor.

92
Public bridges: 23.9%
Good condition: 10.9%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hampshire County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 15%
lowest Poor share in state: 10.9%
Poor-condition share: 92
public highway bridges: 1978
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.

Hampshire County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hampshire County ranks #8 of 55 West Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10.9%). Hampshire County, West Virginia contains 92 public highway bridges. Roughly 23.9% are rated “Good,” 65.2% “Fair,” and 10.9% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Hampshire County

Good condition

23.9%

22 of 92 rated 7-9

Fair condition

65.2%

60 of 92 rated 5-6

Poor condition

10.9%

10 of 92 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#8 of 55

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

Condition distribution

Share of 92 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

23.9% (22)

Fair

65.2% (60)

Poor

10.9% (10)

Hampshire County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,700 vehicle crossings a day

That is 13.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,370 crossings a day against 1,138 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 92 of 92 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

43.5% of Hampshire County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

40 of the 92 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 23.9% 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 41.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US 50 T over CACAPON RIVER, built 1933, carries 5,700 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 10-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 13,700 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

1
1920s

1
1930s

10
1940s

6
1950s

6
1960s

11
1970s

11
1980s

4
1990s

16
2000s

12
2010s

12
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 16 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the West Virginia average (1980).

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

The 5 West Virginia counties nearest Hampshire County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10.9% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 54 West Virginia counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hampshire County and the 5 West Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Doddridge County	99	38.4%	37.4%	24.2%	1974
Grant County	97	21.6%	64.9%	13.4%	1980
Nicholas County	97	25.8%	59.8%	14.4%	1986
Barbour County	93	12.9%	72%	15.1%	1957
Hampshire County (this page)	92	23.9%	65.2%	10.9%	1978
Clay County	87	32.2%	54%	13.8%	1987

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire County, both outside West Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WV (92 bridges here).

Douglas County, GA · 92 bridges
Taylor County, KY · 92 bridges
Waldo County, ME · 92 bridges
Camden County, MO · 92 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1978 here).

Orange County, CA · avg 1978 · 1,164 bridges
Sumner County, KS · avg 1978 · 659 bridges
Allen County, IN · avg 1978 · 613 bridges
Livingston County, IL · avg 1978 · 579 bridges

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

All 92 Good 22 Fair 60 Poor 10

All bridges (92)

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Hampshire County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hampshire County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,700 vehicle crossings a day

43.5% of Hampshire County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 41.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Hampshire County compares with West 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 (92)

CR 02 SLS

CR 45/6 SLS

CR 50/25 SLS

US 50 T

CR 07 SLS

WV 259 F

CR 07 SLS

US 50 T

US 50 T

US 220 F

WV. 259 F

WV 29 F

US 50 T

W.V. 29 F.

US 50 T

CR 50/9 SLS

COUNTY ROUTE 7/7

WV 127 F

CR 220/10 SLS

CR 10/6 SLS

US 50 T

CR 01 SLS

CR 29/3

COUNTY RT. 03 SLS

CR 03 SLS

WV 29 F

CR 3/3 SLS

CR 08 SLS

CR 5/4 SLS

CR 220/6 SLS

CR 45/20

CR 10 SLS

C.R. 16 SLS

CR 50/17 SLS

CR 03 SLS

CR.12 SLS

COUNTY ROAD 13 SLS

CR 3/2 SLS

CR 10/5 SLS

CR 50/9 SLS

CR 12 SLS

CR 45/5 SLS

CR 03 SLS

CR 4/1 SLS

CR 7/1 SLS

CR 13/1 SLS

CR 50/17 SLS

CR 14 SLS

CR 50/9 SLS

CR 08 SLS

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