West Virginia Website Statistics
All Bridges
- Total listed West Virginia bridges: 1,353
- Bridges with photos: 449 (33.2%)
- Bridges with Street View: 566 (41.8%)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 1,351 (99.9%)
- Total photos: 3,614
Extant Bridges
- Extant bridges: 1,074 (79.4% of all)
- Bridges with photos: 326 (30.4% of extant)
- Bridges with Street View: 476 (44.3% of extant)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 1,072 (99.8% of extant)
Lost Bridges
- Lost bridges: 216 (16.0% of all)
- Bridges with photos: 101 (46.8% of lost)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 216 (100.0% of lost)
Oldest Listed 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 traffic)
- US50 Cheat River Covered Bridge 48-39-01x (Preston County, built 1835, destroyed by fire)
- B&O - 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)
- Wheeling Suspension Bridge (Ohio County, built 1849, open to traffic)
- B&O - Harpers Ferry Bollman Bridge (Jefferson County, built 1852, destroyed by flood)
- Philippi Covered Bridge 48-01-01 (Barbour County, built 1852, open to traffic)
- B&O - Monogahela River Fink Truss Bridge (Marion County, built 1852, replaced by new bridge)
By Design
- Arch: 529 (39.1%)
- Deck arch: 518 (38.3%)
- Brick arch: 1 (0.07%)
- Closed-spandrel arch: 37 (2.7%)
- Luten arch: 5 (0.4%)
- Open-spandrel arch: 6 (0.4%)
- Ribbed closed-spandrel arch: 1 (0.07%)
- Steel arch: 5 (0.4%)
- Stone arch: 26 (1.9%)
- Through arch: 10 (0.7%)
- Concrete through arch: 3 (0.2%)
- Steel through arch: 5 (0.4%)
- Timber through arch: 1 (0.07%)
- Beam: 83 (6.1%)
- Stringer: 63 (4.7%)
- Steel stringer: 54 (4.0%)
- Timber stringer: 6 (0.4%)
- Concrete tee beam: 16 (1.2%)
- Culvert: 3 (0.2%)
- Ferry: 1 (0.07%)
- Rigid frame: 7 (0.5%)
- Concrete rigid frame: 4 (0.3%)
- Steel rigid frame: 3 (0.2%)
- Girder: 88 (6.5%)
- Deck girder: 57 (4.2%)
- Deck plate girder: 52 (3.8%)
- Pony/through girder: 21 (1.6%)
- Concrete pony/through girder: 3 (0.2%)
- Pony/through plate girder: 18 (1.3%)
- Other: 8 (0.6%)
- Slab: 5 (0.4%)
- Suspension: 28 (2.1%)
- Cable-stayed: 1 (0.07%)
- Wire suspension: 24 (1.8%)
- Truss: 426 (31.5%)
- Deck truss: 41 (3.0%)
- Pratt deck truss: 3 (0.2%)
- Warren deck truss: 13 (1.0%)
- Warren deck truss with alternating verticals: 2 (0.1%)
- Warren deck truss with all verticals: 7 (0.5%)
- Modern truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Modern deck truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Modern pony truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Pony truss: 86 (6.4%)
- 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: 10 (0.7%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss with all verticals: 2 (0.1%)
- Pratt pony truss: 13 (1.0%)
- Half-hip Pratt pony truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Warren pony truss: 16 (1.2%)
- Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 5 (0.4%)
- Warren pony truss with all verticals: 3 (0.2%)
- Through truss: 273 (20.2%)
- Baltimore through truss: 10 (0.7%)
- Bollman through truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Burr arch-truss: 5 (0.4%)
- Camelback through truss: 5 (0.4%)
- Double-intersection Warren through truss: 1 (0.07%)
- Fink through truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Howe through truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Kingpost through truss: 2 (0.1%)
- Long through truss: 3 (0.2%)
- Multiple Kingpost through truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Parker through truss: 34 (2.5%)
- Pennsylvania through truss: 17 (1.3%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss: 9 (0.7%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss with no verticals: 1 (0.07%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss with all verticals: 4 (0.3%)
- Pratt through truss: 80 (5.9%)
- Queenpost through truss: 4 (0.3%)
- Warren through truss: 31 (2.3%)
- Warren through truss with no verticals: 1 (0.07%)
- Warren through truss with all verticals: 13 (1.0%)
- Whipple through truss: 10 (0.7%)
- Tunnel: 133 (9.8%)
- Unknown: 42 (3.1%)