Total bridges
65
Public highway bridges in Taylor County
County profile · official public datasets
Taylor County, WV
65 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40% rated Good, 52.3% Fair, 7.7% Poor.
- 65
- Public bridges
- 40%
- Good condition
- 7.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Taylor County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 7%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 7.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 65
- public highway bridges
- 1971
- 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.
Taylor County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Taylor County ranks #4 of 55 West Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.7%). Taylor County, West Virginia contains 65 public highway bridges. Roughly 40% are rated “Good,” 52.3% “Fair,” and 7.7% “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
40%
26 of 65 rated 7-9
Fair condition
52.3%
34 of 65 rated 5-6
Poor condition
7.7%
5 of 65 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#4 of 55
Among West Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 65 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40% (26)
Fair 52.3% (34)
Poor 7.7% (5)
Taylor County's Poor-condition bridges carry 460 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 92 crossings a day against 1,319 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 65 of 65 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
40% of Taylor County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
26 of the 65 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 40% 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 43.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
TAYLOR CO RT 38 over SHELBY RUN, built 1987, carries 200 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 460 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Taylor County's bridges were built
65 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1910s
1910–1919
7 bridges
- 1920s
1920–1929
5 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s 4
1950–1959
4 bridges
- 1960s 2
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
10 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
11 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
12 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 12 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 9 years older than the West Virginia average of 1980.
How Taylor County compares with West Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 West Virginia counties nearest Taylor County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.7% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 10 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 54 West Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler County | 73 | 32.9% | 46.6% | 20.5% | 1980 |
| Tucker County | 69 | 30.4% | 52.2% | 17.4% | 1983 |
| Summers County | 66 | 16.7% | 75.8% | 7.6% | 1987 |
| Taylor County (this page) | 65 | 40% | 52.3% | 7.7% | 1971 |
| Mineral County | 63 | 27% | 65.1% | 7.9% | 1972 |
| Monroe County | 63 | 23.8% | 61.9% | 14.3% | 1983 |
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 Taylor 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 Taylor County, both outside West Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside WV (65 bridges here).
- Marion County, AR · 65 bridges
- Newton County, AR · 65 bridges
- Searcy County, AR · 65 bridges
- Sierra County, CA · 65 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1971 here).
- Wayne County, MI · avg 1971 · 1,026 bridges
- Baltimore County, MD · avg 1971 · 783 bridges
- Washington County, PA · avg 1971 · 655 bridges
- Linn County, OR · avg 1971 · 566 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (65)
TAYLOR CO RT 7/4
GoodOver: BR OF THREE FORK CREEK
0.01 MI EAST CO RT 50/15, Taylor, WV
Built 1982 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 50
TAYLOR CO RT 32
GoodOver: MAPLE RUN
0.63 MI NORTH CO RT 32/2, Taylor, WV
Built 1991 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 90
TAYLOR CO RT 28
GoodOver: LAUREL RUN
0.01 MI WEST CO RT 28/1, Taylor, WV
Built 1992 Load: 58.0 t ADT: 200
TAYLOR CO RT 13/7
GoodOver: LONG RUN
0.04 MI NORTH CO RT 13, Taylor, WV
Built 1988 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 50
TAYLOR CO RT 26
GoodOver: WICKWIRE RUN
0.36 MI NORTH TAY CO 26/3, Taylor, WV
Built 2006 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 250
TAYLOR CO RT 26
GoodOver: BRANCH OF WICKWIRE RUN
0.01 MI NORTH CO RT 26/3, Taylor, WV
Built 1997 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 250
TAYLOR CO. RT. 7
GoodOver: THREE FORK CREEK
0.02 MI. W. TAY CO RT 30, Taylor, WV
Built 2010 Load: 64.4 t ADT: 300
TAYLOR CO RT 54/1
GoodOver: LITTLE SANDY CREEK
0.01 MI EAST CO RT 54, Taylor, WV
Built 1995 Load: 65.3 t ADT: 50
COUNTY ROUTE 13/17
GoodOver: SIMPSON CREEK
0.47 MI WEST OF WV RT 76, Taylor, WV
Built 1996 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 50
TAYLOR CO RT 3
GoodOver: BERRY RUN
0.24 MI NORTH WV RT 76, Taylor, WV
Built 1994 Load: 68.9 t ADT: 600
TAYLOR CO RT 13/25
PoorOver: CSX RAILROAD
0.01 MI EAST CO RT 13, Taylor, WV
Built 1897 Load: 6.3 t ADT: 10
TAYLOR CO RT 13/13
PoorOver: SIMPSON CREEK
0.01 MI NORTH C R 13/23, Taylor, WV
Built 1954 Load: 7.3 t ADT: 50
TAYLOR CO RTE 3/5
PoorOver: HUSTEAD FORK
0.03 MI SOUTH CO RT 3/7, Taylor, WV
Built 1940 Load: 15.4 t ADT: 50
TAYLOR CO RT 38
PoorOver: SHELBY RUN
0.58 MI SOUTH CR 250/12, Taylor, WV
Built 1987 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 200
TAYLOR CO RT 7
PoorOver: THREE FORK CREEK
0.03 MI EAST CO RT 28/8, Taylor, WV
Built 1987 Load: 64.4 t ADT: 150
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