West Virginia Website Statistics
All Bridges
- Total listed West Virginia bridges: 1,505
- Bridges with photos: 660 (43.9%)
- Bridges with Street View: 595 (39.5%)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 1,504 (99.9%)
- Total photos: 4,614
Extant Bridges
- Extant bridges: 1,160 (77.1% of all)
- Bridges with photos: 468 (40.3% of extant)
- Bridges with Street View: 496 (42.8% of extant)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 1,159 (99.9% of extant)
Lost Bridges
- Lost bridges: 297 (19.7% of all)
- Bridges with photos: 163 (54.9% of lost)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 297 (100.0% of lost)
Oldest Listed Bridges
- Grassy Creek Bridge (Upshur County, built 1817, open to traffic)
- Elm Grove Stone Bridge (Ohio County, built 1817, open to traffic)
- Gauley Bridge (1822) (Fayette County, built 1822, destroyed by fire)
- Gauley Bridge (1828) (Fayette County, built 1828, destroyed by fire)
- Van Metre Ford Bridge (Berkeley County, built 1832, open to pedestrians)
- US50 Cheat River Covered Bridge 48-39-01x (Preston County, built 1835, destroyed by fire)
- BO - Harper Ferry Bridge (Jefferson County, built 1836, lost)
- Bridgeport Covered Bridge 48-35-01x / 35-07-04x (Ohio County, built 1839, replaced by new bridge)
- 2nd Street Bridge (1846) (Braxton County, built 1846, replaced by new bridge)
- Wheeling Suspension Bridge (Ohio County, built 1849, open to pedestrians)
Oldest Listed Extant Bridges
- Elm Grove Stone Bridge (Ohio County, built 1817, open to traffic)
- Grassy Creek Bridge (Upshur County, built 1817, open to traffic)
- Van Metre Ford Bridge (Berkeley County, built 1832, open to pedestrians)
- Wheeling Suspension Bridge (Ohio County, built 1849, open to pedestrians)
- Philippi Covered Bridge 48-01-01 (Barbour County, built 1852, open to traffic)
- Barrackville Covered Bridge 48-25-02 (Marion County, built 1853, open to pedestrians)
- Carrollton Covered Bridge 48-01-02 (Barbour County, built 1856, closed to all traffic)
- Wheeling Heritage Trail - Hempfield Viaduct (Ohio County, built 1857, open to pedestrians)
- CSX - Amblersburg Viaduct (Preston County, built 1865, open to traffic)
- Locust Creek Covered Bridge 48-38-01 (Pocahontas County, built 1870, open to pedestrians)
By Design
- Arch: 534 (35.5%)
- Deck arch: 523 (34.8%)
- Brick arch: 1 (0.07%)
- Closed-spandrel arch: 41 (2.7%)
- Luten arch: 5 (0.3%)
- Open-spandrel arch: 6 (0.4%)
- Ribbed closed-spandrel arch: 1 (0.07%)
- Steel arch: 5 (0.3%)
- Stone arch: 26 (1.7%)
- Through arch: 10 (0.7%)
- Concrete through arch: 4 (0.3%)
- Steel through arch: 5 (0.3%)
- Timber through arch: 1 (0.07%)
- Beam: 112 (7.4%)
- Stringer: 82 (5.4%)
- Concrete stringer: 4 (0.3%)
- Steel stringer: 66 (4.4%)
- Timber stringer: 7 (0.5%)
- Concrete tee beam: 26 (1.7%)
- Culvert: 12 (0.8%)
- Concrete culvert: 9 (0.6%)
- Ferry: 2 (0.1%)
- Rigid frame: 16 (1.1%)
- Concrete rigid frame: 13 (0.9%)
- Steel rigid frame: 3 (0.2%)
- Girder: 118 (7.8%)
- Deck girder: 80 (5.3%)
- Concrete deck girder: 2 (0.1%)
- Deck plate girder: 73 (4.9%)
- Pony/through girder: 26 (1.7%)
- Concrete pony/through girder: 3 (0.2%)
- Pony/through plate girder: 23 (1.5%)
- Other: 9 (0.6%)
- Slab: 17 (1.1%)
- Suspension: 34 (2.3%)
- Cable-stayed: 1 (0.07%)
- Wire suspension: 30 (2.0%)
- Truss: 478 (31.8%)
- Deck truss: 48 (3.2%)
- Double-intersection Warren deck truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Fink deck truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Pratt deck truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Warren deck truss: 14 (0.9%)
- Warren deck truss with alternating verticals: 3 (0.2%)
- Warren deck truss with all verticals: 7 (0.5%)
- Half-through truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Modern truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Modern deck truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Modern pony truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Pony truss: 94 (6.2%)
- Bailey pony truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Double-intersection Warren pony truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Kingpost pony truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Lane pony truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Parker pony truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss: 12 (0.8%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 1 (0.07%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss with all verticals: 4 (0.3%)
- Post pony truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Pratt pony truss: 13 (0.9%)
- Half-hip Pratt pony truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Warren pony truss: 19 (1.3%)
- Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 7 (0.5%)
- Warren pony truss with all verticals: 5 (0.3%)
- Through truss: 309 (20.5%)
- Baltimore through truss: 10 (0.7%)
- Bollman through truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Bowstring through truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Burr arch-truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Camelback through truss: 5 (0.3%)
- Double-intersection Warren through truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Fink through truss: 3 (0.2%)
- Howe through truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Kingpost through truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Lattice through truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Town lattice truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Long through truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Multiple Kingpost through truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Parker through truss: 38 (2.5%)
- Pennsylvania through truss: 24 (1.6%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss: 10 (0.7%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss with no verticals: 1 (0.07%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss with all verticals: 5 (0.3%)
- Pratt through truss: 89 (5.9%)
- Queenpost through truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Warren through truss: 36 (2.4%)
- Warren through truss with no verticals: 1 (0.07%)
- Warren through truss with all verticals: 16 (1.1%)
- Whipple through truss: 12 (0.8%)
- Tunnel: 143 (9.5%)
- Unknown: 30 (2.0%)