North Carolina Website Statistics
All Bridges
- Total listed North Carolina bridges: 957
- Bridges with photos: 689 (72.0%)
- Bridges with Street View: 497 (51.9%)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 954 (99.7%)
- Total photos: 10,202
Extant Bridges
- Extant bridges: 724 (75.7% of all)
- Bridges with photos: 545 (75.3% of extant)
- Bridges with Street View: 427 (59.0% of extant)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 721 (99.6% of extant)
Lost Bridges
- Lost bridges: 178 (18.6% of all)
- Bridges with photos: 87 (48.9% of lost)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 178 (100.0% of lost)
Oldest Listed Bridges
- Yadkin River Bridge (Rowan County, built 1819, replaced by new bridge)
- Clarendon Bridge 33-26-01#2x (Cumberland County, built 1820, destroyed by fire)
- CSX - Cedar Creek Bridge (Franklin County, built 1839, open to traffic)
- Rozzell's Ferry Bridge (First) (Mecklenburg County, built 1849, destroyed by fire)
- Leaksville Covered Bridge 33-79-04x (Rockingham County, built 1852, collapsed)
- North Carolina Railroad - Haw River Bridge (Alamance County, built 1855, replaced by new bridge)
- NS - Bostian Bridge (Iredell County, built 1857, open to traffic)
- SOU - Hunting Creek Stone Bridge (Burke County, built 1860, abandoned)
- Settles Bridge (Rockingham County, built 1870, lost)
- Madison Covered Bridge 33-79-02x (Rockingham County, built 1870, replaced by new bridge)
Oldest Listed Extant Bridges
- CSX - Cedar Creek Bridge (Franklin County, built 1839, open to traffic)
- NS - Bostian Bridge (Iredell County, built 1857, open to traffic)
- SOU - Hunting Creek Stone Bridge (Burke County, built 1860, abandoned)
- West Fork Pigeon River Bridge (Haywood County, built 1891, open to traffic)
- Bunker Hill Covered Bridge 33-18-01 (Catawba County, built 1895, open to pedestrians)
- YVRR - Elkin Creek Bridge (Surry County, built 1899, open to traffic)
- GSM - Tuckasegee River Bridge (Ela) (Swain County, built 1900, open to traffic)
- Roaring River Yadkin Valley Railroad Bridge (Wilkes County, built 1900, open to traffic)
- NW - 3rd Street Bridge (Forsyth County, built 1901, closed to all traffic)
- Sutton Road Railroad Overpass (W) (Edgecombe County, built 1901, open to traffic)
By Design
- Arch: 93 (9.7%)
- Deck arch: 89 (9.3%)
- Brick arch: 3 (0.3%)
- Closed-spandrel arch: 35 (3.7%)
- Open-spandrel arch: 6 (0.6%)
- Steel arch: 1 (0.1%)
- Stone arch: 3 (0.3%)
- Through arch: 4 (0.4%)
- Steel through arch: 1 (0.1%)
- Timber through arch: 3 (0.3%)
- Beam: 269 (28.1%)
- Stringer: 174 (18.2%)
- Concrete stringer: 9 (0.9%)
- Steel stringer: 116 (12.1%)
- Timber stringer: 45 (4.7%)
- Concrete tee beam: 89 (9.3%)
- Culvert: 12 (1.3%)
- Concrete culvert: 10 (1.0%)
- Ferry: 2 (0.2%)
- Floating: 1 (0.1%)
- Rigid frame: 19 (2.0%)
- Concrete rigid frame: 19 (2.0%)
- Girder: 178 (18.6%)
- Deck girder: 133 (13.9%)
- Concrete deck girder: 5 (0.5%)
- Deck plate girder: 125 (13.1%)
- Pony/through girder: 37 (3.9%)
- Concrete pony/through girder: 5 (0.5%)
- Pony/through plate girder: 32 (3.3%)
- Other: 9 (0.9%)
- Slab: 20 (2.1%)
- Suspension: 29 (3.0%)
- Wire suspension: 27 (2.8%)
- Truss: 228 (23.8%)
- Deck truss: 27 (2.8%)
- Pratt deck truss: 5 (0.5%)
- Warren deck truss: 10 (1.0%)
- Warren deck truss with alternating verticals: 2 (0.2%)
- Warren deck truss with all verticals: 6 (0.6%)
- Half-through truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Modern truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Modern pony truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Pony truss: 54 (5.6%)
- Bailey pony truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Other pony truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss: 2 (0.2%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 1 (0.1%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss with all verticals: 1 (0.1%)
- Pratt pony truss: 14 (1.5%)
- Queenpost pony truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Warren pony truss: 11 (1.1%)
- Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 1 (0.1%)
- Through truss: 141 (14.7%)
- Baltimore through truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Burr arch-truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Camelback through truss: 10 (1.0%)
- Haupt through truss: 1 (0.1%)
- Lattice through truss: 7 (0.7%)
- Town lattice truss: 4 (0.4%)
- Parker through truss: 10 (1.0%)
- Pennsylvania through truss: 6 (0.6%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss: 8 (0.8%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss with all verticals: 1 (0.1%)
- Pratt through truss: 37 (3.9%)
- Queenpost through truss: 2 (0.2%)
- Warren through truss: 34 (3.6%)
- Warren through truss with alternating verticals: 2 (0.2%)
- Warren through truss with sub-panels: 1 (0.1%)
- Warren through truss with all verticals: 17 (1.8%)
- Tunnel: 46 (4.8%)
- Unknown: 51 (5.3%)