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Mingo County, WV

165 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 29.1% rated Good, 55.8% Fair, 15.2% Poor.

165
Public bridges
29.1%
Good condition
15.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 38%
lowest Poor share in state
15.2%
Poor-condition share
165
public highway bridges
1992
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.

Mingo County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Mingo County ranks #21 of 55 West Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 15.2%). Mingo County, West Virginia contains 165 public highway bridges. Roughly 29.1% are rated “Good,” 55.8% “Fair,” and 15.2% “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

165

Public highway bridges in Mingo County

Good condition

29.1%

48 of 165 rated 7-9

Fair condition

55.8%

92 of 165 rated 5-6

Poor condition

15.2%

25 of 165 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#21 of 55

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

Condition distribution

Share of 165 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
29.1% (48)
Fair
55.8% (92)
Poor
15.2% (25)

Mingo County's Poor-condition bridges carry 32,970 vehicle crossings a day

That is 13.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 15.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,319 crossings a day against 707 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 165 of 165 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

13.9% of Mingo County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

23 of the 165 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 29.1% 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 20.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US 119 over CSX RAILROAD, built 1970, carries 6,700 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 25-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 32,970 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Mingo County's bridges were built

165 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 56 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 33.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1992, 12 years newer than the West Virginia average of 1980.

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

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

The 5 West Virginia counties nearest Mingo County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 15.2% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1992 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 14 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Mingo County and the 5 West Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Wood County 180 22.2%
Mercer County 174 25.3%
Mingo County (this page) 165 15.2%
Wayne County 163 18.4%
Wyoming County 160 33.1%
Lewis County 159 13.2%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WV (165 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1992 here).

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

All 165 Good 48 Fair 92 Poor 25

Poor-condition bridges (25)

CR 65/16

Poor

Over: PIGEON CREEK

0.06 MI EAST OF WV 65, Mingo, WV

Built 1930 Load: 3.6 t ADT: 40

COUNTY ROUTE 8/9

Poor

Over: LEFT FORK BEN CREEK

0.01 MILE WEST OF CO 8/1, Mingo, WV

Built 1960 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 40

HARP 920

Poor

Over: ROCKHOUSE FORK

0.01 MILE EAST OF CR 65/5, Mingo, WV

Built 1999 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 30

CR 14

Poor

Over: BUFFALO CREEK

0.38 MI WEST OF US 119, Mingo, WV

Built 1926 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 1,600

COUNTY ROUTE 2/7

Poor

Over: MARROWBONE CREEK

0.01 MILE SOUTH OF C.R. 2, Mingo, WV

Built 2005 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 30

WV 49

Poor

Over: THACKER CREEK

0.03 MI NORTH OF WV 49/2, Mingo, WV

Built 1974 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,400

CR 10

Poor

Over: BENS CREEK

0.11 MI.NORTH OF CR 10/3, Mingo, WV

Built 1940 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 450

CR 252/18

Poor

Over: HORSEPEN CREEK

0.01 MI SO OF U S 52, Mingo, WV

Built 1985 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 20

CR 15

Poor

Over: NS RAILROAD

0.14 MI EAST OF CR 52/27, Mingo, WV

Built 1934 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 1,500

WV 65

Poor

Over: LAUREL FORK

0.08 MI SOUTH OF CR 3/5, Mingo, WV

Built 1947 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 3,900

US 52

Poor

Over: CR 119/1

0.09 MI WEST OF CR 119/1, Mingo, WV

Built 1992 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,400

US 119

Poor

Over: CSX RAILROAD

0.12 MI WEST OF CR 65/30, Mingo, WV

Built 1970 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 6,700

US 52

Poor

Over: NS RAILROAD AND CO 52/60

0.01 MI SO OF CO 52/11, Mingo, WV

Built 1995 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 6,100

COUNTY ROUTE 7/5

Poor

Over: RIFFE BRANCH

0.94 MILES WEST OF US 119, Mingo, WV

Built 2007 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 250

US 52

Poor

Over: UPPER BURNING CK & NS RR

0.12 MI WEST OF CR 52/36, Mingo, WV

Built 1977 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 3,700

CR 2/2

Poor

Over: MARROWBONE CREEK

0.38 MI EAST OF CR 65/1, Mingo, WV

Built 1992 Load: 47.2 t ADT: 250

CR 65/4

Poor

Over: ELK CREEK

0.01 MI EAST OF CR 65/3, Mingo, WV

Built 1986 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 60

CR 10/3

Poor

Over: SPRING FORK

0.75 MI. E. OF CR.10, Mingo, WV

Built 1988 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 90

CR 65/37

Poor

Over: PIGEON CREEK

0.01 MI EAST OF WV 65, Mingo, WV

Built 1991 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 30

CR 52/35

Poor

Over: PIGEON CREEK

0.04 MI NORTH OF US 52, Mingo, WV

Built 1988 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 200

CR 8/3

Poor

Over: BEECH CREEK

0.04 MI EAST OF CR 8, Mingo, WV

Built 1982 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 90

WV 65

Poor

Over: CONLEY BRANCH

0.01 MI NORTH OF 65/10, Mingo, WV

Built 1977 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 2,000

CR 52/49

Poor

Over: PIGEON CREEK

0.17 MI SOUTH OF US 52, Mingo, WV

Built 1992 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 50

CR 252/13

Poor

Over: GILBERT CREEK

0.01 MILE SOUTH OF US 52, Mingo, WV

Built 2001 Load: 76.2 t ADT: 30

COUNTY ROUTE 1/6

Poor

Over: EAST FK OF TWELVEPOLE CK

0.01 MILES EAST OF C R 1, Mingo, WV

Built 1992 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 10

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