Total bridges
99
Public highway bridges in Upshur County
County profile · official public datasets
Upshur County, WV
99 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 21.2% rated Good, 66.7% Fair, 12.1% Poor.
- 99
- Public bridges
- 21.2%
- Good condition
- 12.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Upshur County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 16%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 12.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 99
- 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.
Upshur County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Upshur County ranks #9 of 55 West Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 12.1%). Upshur County, West Virginia contains 99 public highway bridges. Roughly 21.2% are rated “Good,” 66.7% “Fair,” and 12.1% “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
21.2%
21 of 99 rated 7-9
Fair condition
66.7%
66 of 99 rated 5-6
Poor condition
12.1%
12 of 99 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#9 of 55
Among West Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 99 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 21.2% (21)
Fair 66.7% (66)
Poor 12.1% (12)
Upshur County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,295 vehicle crossings a day
That is 5.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 11.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 754 crossings a day against 425 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 98 of 99 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
35.4% of Upshur County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
35 of the 99 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 21.2% 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 50.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
COUNTY ROUTE 9 SLS over BUCKHANNON RIVER, built 1935, carries 4,200 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 8,295 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Upshur County's bridges were built
99 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 2
Built before 1900
2 bridges
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 7
1910–1919
7 bridges
- 1920s
1920–1929
14 bridges
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s 1
1950–1959
1 bridges
- 1960s 4
1960–1969
4 bridges
- 1970s 5
1970–1979
5 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
16 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
23 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
17 bridges
- 2010s 4
2010–2019
4 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 23 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 9 years older than the West Virginia average of 1980.
How Upshur County compares with West Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 West Virginia counties nearest Upshur County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 12.1% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 54 West Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilmer County | 106 | 16% | 69.8% | 14.2% | 1975 |
| Doddridge County | 99 | 38.4% | 37.4% | 24.2% | 1974 |
| Upshur County (this page) | 99 | 21.2% | 66.7% | 12.1% | 1971 |
| 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 |
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 Upshur 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 Upshur County, both outside West Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside WV (99 bridges here).
- Washington County, FL · 99 bridges
- Crisp County, GA · 99 bridges
- Harris County, GA · 99 bridges
- Newton County, GA · 99 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.
Good-condition bridges (21)
COUNTY ROUTE 11/4
GoodOver: GRASSY CREEK
0.09 MI E OF CO RT 11/8, Upshur, WV
Built 1817 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 50
COUNTY ROUTE 30
GoodOver: FRENCH CREEK
0.04 MI W OF CO 30/5, Upshur, WV
Built 2003 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 282
COUNTY ROUTE 22/2
GoodOver: BUCKHANNON RIVER
0.43 MI E OF CO 22/1, Upshur, WV
Built 2008 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 150
COUNTY ROUTE 40
GoodOver: LAUREL RUN
0.21 MI N OF CO 40/3 SLS, Upshur, WV
Built 2001 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 500
CR 11
GoodOver: BUCKHANNON RIVER
0.16 MI E OF CO 11/15, Upshur, WV
Built 2015 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 350
COUNTY ROUTE 38
GoodOver: KANAWHA RUN
0.02 MI S CO 44 SLS, Upshur, WV
Built 2005 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 10
COUNTY ROUTE 32
GoodOver: BUCKANNON RIVER
0.02 MI E CO 11/9, Upshur, WV
Built 2023 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 50
COUNTY ROUTE 1/1
GoodOver: HACKERS CREEK
0.04 mi. S OF CO 1 (SLS), Upshur, WV
Built 2011 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 10
WV 20 F
GoodOver: Branch of Cave Run
0.37 Mi N of Co 20/18 SLS, Upshur, WV
Built 2012 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,400
CO RT 1 SLS
GoodOver: PECKS RUN
0.13 MI E CO 1/10 SLS, Upshur, WV
Built 1999 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 1,200
COUNTY ROUTE 44
GoodOver: RT FK BUCKHANNON RIVER
0.60 MI S CO 11/17, Upshur, WV
Built 2001 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 200
COUNTY ROUTE 32
GoodOver: LAUREL FORK
0.03 MI W CO 32/7, Upshur, WV
Built 2005 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 238
CO 151/1 (SLS)
GoodOver: BUCKHANNAN RIVER
0.23 MI. N CO 151 (SLS), Upshur, WV
Built 2003 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 2,600
COUNTY ROUTE 30
GoodOver: BUCKHANNON RIVER
0.01 MI W OF CO 24, Upshur, WV
Built 2003 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 50
COUNTY ROUTE 9
GoodOver: JACKSON FORK
0.07 MI N OF CO 30, Upshur, WV
Built 1993 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 550
COUNTY ROUTE 11
GoodOver: FRENCH CREEK
0.37 MI W OF CO 11/3 SLS, Upshur, WV
Built 1992 Load: 46.3 t ADT: 300
COUNTY 38/3
GoodOver: LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER
0.01 Mi. N. Jct. CO 40/1, Upshur, WV
Built 2014 Load: 47.2 t ADT: 40
COUNTY ROUTE 32
GoodOver: FRENCH CREEK
0.01 MI W CO 32/4, Upshur, WV
Built 1987 Load: 49.0 t ADT: 250
COUNTY ROUTE 40
GoodOver: LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER
0.04 MI S OF WV 20 F, Upshur, WV
Built 1999 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 500
COUNTY ROUTE 40/3
GoodOver: LAUREL RUN
0.24 MI W OF CO 20/17, Upshur, WV
Built 1994 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 187
COUNTY ROUTE 3/6
GoodOver: SAND RUN
0.10 MI NORTH OF CO 3/9, Upshur, WV
Built 1991 Load: 71.7 t ADT: 10
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