Total bridges
236
Public highway bridges in Logan County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
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
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 7
1930–1939
7 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s 5
1960–1969
5 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
39 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
57 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
50 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
36 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
28 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 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.
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.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison County | 256 | 32% | 43% | 25% | 1969 |
| Logan County (this page) | 236 | 23.7% | 52.5% | 23.7% | 1989 |
| McDowell County | 225 | 4% | 64.4% | 31.6% | 1981 |
| Raleigh County | 224 | 4.9% | 70.5% | 24.6% | 1983 |
| Fayette County | 211 | 19% | 67.8% | 13.3% | 1982 |
| Cabell County | 207 | 25.1% | 57.5% | 17.4% | 1984 |
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).
- Etowah County, AL · 236 bridges
- York County, ME · 236 bridges
- Cabarrus County, NC · 236 bridges
- Catawba County, NC · 236 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1989 here).
- Harris County, TX · avg 1989 · 4,029 bridges
- Mecklenburg County, NC · avg 1989 · 746 bridges
- Buffalo County, NE · avg 1989 · 459 bridges
- Brazos County, TX · avg 1989 · 370 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (56)
CR 701/85
PoorOver: SANDLICK CREEK
0.01 MI NORTH OF CR 11/2, Logan, WV
Built 1987 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 40
CR 12/1
PoorOver: CROOKED CREEK
0.57 MI EAST OF CR 12, Logan, WV
Built 1988 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 650
COUNTY ROUTE 14
PoorOver: RUM CREEK
3.20 MI WEST OF CR 14/2, Logan, WV
Built 1982 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 550
CR 4/1
PoorOver: BIG CREEK
0.02 MI WEST OF CR 4, Logan, WV
Built 1988 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 1,200
CR 119/5
PoorOver: PINE CREEK
3.24 MILES WEST OF WV 44, Logan, WV
Built 1998 Load: 61.7 t ADT: 10
CR 16
PoorOver: BUFFALO CREEK
0.01 MI EAST OF CR 16/3, Logan, WV
Built 1991 Load: 81.6 t ADT: 850
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