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Logan County, WV

236 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 23.7% rated Good, 52.5% Fair, 23.7% Poor.

236
Public bridges
23.7%
Good condition
23.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Logan County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

40th
of 55 on Poor share
23.7%
Poor-condition share
236
public highway bridges
1989
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.

Logan County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Logan County ranks #40 of 55 West Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 23.7%). Logan County, West Virginia contains 236 public highway bridges. Roughly 23.7% are rated “Good,” 52.5% “Fair,” and 23.7% “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

236

Public highway bridges in Logan County

Good condition

23.7%

56 of 236 rated 7-9

Fair condition

52.5%

124 of 236 rated 5-6

Poor condition

23.7%

56 of 236 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#40 of 55

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

Condition distribution

Share of 236 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
23.7% (56)
Fair
52.5% (124)
Poor
23.7% (56)

Logan County's Poor-condition bridges carry 63,535 vehicle crossings a day

That is 14.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 23.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,155 crossings a day against 1,777 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 235 of 236 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

18.2% of Logan County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

43 of the 236 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 23.7% 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 19.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US 119 over CSX RAILROAD, built 1972, carries 12,400 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 56-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 63,535 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Logan County's bridges were built

236 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 57 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1989, 9 years newer than the West Virginia average of 1980.

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

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

The 5 West Virginia counties nearest Logan County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 23.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1989 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 9 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Logan County and the 5 West Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Harrison County 256 25%
Logan County (this page) 236 23.7%
McDowell County 225 31.6%
Raleigh County 224 24.6%
Fayette County 211 13.3%
Cabell County 207 17.4%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WV (236 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1989 here).

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

All 236 Good 56 Fair 124 Poor 56

Fair-condition bridges (124)

WV 44

Fair

Over: ISLAND CREEK

1.68 MI SOUTH OF CR 119/4, Logan, WV

Built 1927 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 1,000

COUNTY ROUTE 12/2

Fair

Over: PEACH CREEK

0.89 MILES EAST OF C R 12, Logan, WV

Built 1940 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 300

WEST VIRGINIA 17

Fair

Over: Coal Company Railroad

0.21 MILE SO OF C.R. 17/4, Logan, WV

Built 2005 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 1,100

WV 44

Fair

Over: ISLAND CREEK

2.63 MI NORTH OF US 52, Logan, WV

Built 1935 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 1,100

WV 10

Fair

Over: GUYANDOTTE RIVER;CSX RR

0.01 MILE NORTH CR 119/90, Logan, WV

Built 1994 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 3,100

CR 119/98

Fair

Over: BEECH CREEK & CSX RR

0.01 MILE W. OF CR 119/22, Logan, WV

Built 1988 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 10

HARP ROUTE 913

Fair

Over: ELK CREEK

0.02 MI SOUTH OF CR 11/1, Logan, WV

Built 1999 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 30

CR 3/4

Fair

Over: WORKMAN FORK

0.01 MILE NORTH OF CR 3/7, Logan, WV

Built 1970 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 350

US 119 NB

Fair

Over: MEETINGHOUSE BR TRACE FK

3.08 MI SOUTH OF CR 6, Logan, WV

Built 1972 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 11,500

US 119 SB

Fair

Over: MEETINGHOUSE BR TRACE FK

0.08 MI SOUTH OF CR 6, Logan, WV

Built 1972 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 10,200

CR 701/41

Fair

Over: COPPERAS MINE FORK

0.08 MI EAST OF US 119, Logan, WV

Built 1938 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 10

CR 16/24

Fair

Over: BUFFALO CREEK

0.10 MI EAST OF CR 16, Logan, WV

Built 1975 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 40

COUNTY ROUTE 5/1

Fair

Over: TRACE FORK

0.89 MILES WEST OF CR 5, Logan, WV

Built 2009 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 150

CR 119/32

Fair

Over: COPPERAS MINE FORK

0.01 MI SOUTH OF CR 18, Logan, WV

Built 1991 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 150

WV 73

Fair

Over: RT 5 119/14 RR MUD FK

0.01 MI WEST OF US 119, Logan, WV

Built 1994 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 8,400

CR 9/1

Fair

Over: COPPERAS MINE FORK

0.03 MILE SOUTH OF CR 18, Logan, WV

Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,400

CR 16

Fair

Over: DINGESS BRANCH

0.01 MI WEST OF CR 16/4, Logan, WV

Built 1974 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,000

CR 16

Fair

Over: DAVY BRANCH

0.08 MI EAST OF CR 16/48, Logan, WV

Built 1974 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,000

US 119

Fair

Over: GUYANDOTTE RIVER

0.02 MI N. OF CR 119/27, Logan, WV

Built 1972 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10,700

CR 12/1

Fair

Over: CROOKED CREEK

1.23 MI EAST OF CR 12, Logan, WV

Built 1979 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 750

CR 16

Fair

Over: ROBINETTE BRANCH

0.03 MI EAST OF CR 16/23, Logan, WV

Built 1974 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,000

CR 16

Fair

Over: CARTWRIGHT BRANCH

0.02 MI WEST OF CR 16/58, Logan, WV

Built 1974 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,000

CR 9/54

Fair

Over: WHITMAN CREEK

0.01 MILE SOUTH OF CR 9/1, Logan, WV

Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 40

WV ROUTE 17

Fair

Over: SPRUCE FORK

0.01 M NORTH OF CR 119/19, Logan, WV

Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,100

CR 3/30

Fair

Over: CRAWLEY CREEK

0.01 MILE WEST OF CR 3, Logan, WV

Built 1993 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 20

WV 44

Fair

Over: ISLAND CREEK

0.15 MI SOUTH OF CR 119/5, Logan, WV

Built 1980 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 1,400

WV 44

Fair

Over: ISLAND CREEK

0.98 MI S. OF CR 119/15, Logan, WV

Built 1980 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 7,300

CR 10/14

Fair

Over: GUYANDOTTE RIVER

0.01 MI WEST OF WV 10, Logan, WV

Built 1986 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 550

WEST VIRGINIA 44

Fair

Over: ISLAND CREEK

0.01 MILES N OF CR 44/18, Logan, WV

Built 2005 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 8,200

US 119 SB

Fair

Over: WV 10

0.04 MI S.WV 10 EXIT RAMP, Logan, WV

Built 1971 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 10,700

WV 80

Fair

Over: BILLS BRANCH

0.56 MI SOUTH OF CR 11/2, Logan, WV

Built 2001 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 2,300

CO 100

Fair

Over: BUFFALO CREEK

0.01 Mile N CR 16/8, Logan, WV

Built 2009 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 1,800

U.S. 119

Fair

Over: GUYANDOTTE RIVER

0.02 MI N OF CR 119/27, Logan, WV

Built 1972 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 9,500

CR 9/2

Fair

Over: COPPERAS MINE FORK

0.01 MI W OF CO 9/25, Logan, WV

Built 1982 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 1,900

CR 210/25

Fair

Over: RUM CREEK

0.03 MI SOUTH OF CR 14, Logan, WV

Built 1976 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 4,800

US 119 NB

Fair

Over: GARRETT FORK

0.09 MI SOUTH OF CR 7, Logan, WV

Built 1971 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 10,200

CR 119/24

Fair

Over: ISLAND CREEK

0.01 MI WEST OF WV 44, Logan, WV

Built 1994 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 20

COUNTY ROUTE 14

Fair

Over: PRIVATE HAUL ROAD

0.10 MILE W. OF C R 15, Logan, WV

Built 2007 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 50

CR 18

Fair

Over: ALDRIDGE BRANCH

0.16 MI NORTH OF CR 9/3, Logan, WV

Built 1911 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 1,700

US 119 SB

Fair

Over: GARRETT FORK

0.09 MI SOUTH OF CR 7, Logan, WV

Built 1971 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 10,200

COUNTY ROUTE 16/8

Fair

Over: BUFFALO CREEK

0.01 MILES WEST OF WV 10, Logan, WV

Built 2009 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 1,200

WV 10

Fair

Over: Guyandotte River

0.25 MI NORTH OF CO 10/73, Logan, WV

Built 2014 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 9,400

CR 119/26

Fair

Over: GUYAN. RIVER & ISLAND CK

0.13 MILE EAST OF WV 10, Logan, WV

Built 2000 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 6,300

CR 2/6

Fair

Over: BIG CREEK

0.01 MILE SOUTH OF CR 2, Logan, WV

Built 1960 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 10

COUNTY ROUTE 4

Fair

Over: GARRETTS FORK

0.52 MILE NORTH OF US 119, Logan, WV

Built 2006 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 500

CR 9/5

Fair

Over: ISLAND CREEK

0.01 MI WEST OF CR 5, Logan, WV

Built 1986 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 4,700

WV 17

Fair

Over: DINGESS RUN

1.05 MI SOUTH OF CR 119/3, Logan, WV

Built 1981 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 1,100

CR 13

Fair

Over: COW CREEK

1.15 MILE WEST OF WV 44, Logan, WV

Built 2000 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 300

US 119

Fair

Over: CR 18 AND CR 701/41

0.26 MILE SOUTH OF CR 18, Logan, WV

Built 1997 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,600

CR 700/58

Fair

Over: MUD FORK

0.01 MILE WEST OF CR 5, Logan, WV

Built 2002 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 30

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