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Cooley Road over Sutter-butte Canal

Sutter County, California · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

Cooley Road over Sutter-butte Canal in Sutter County, California, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the substructure, rated 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1910 and reconstructed in 1974, making it 115 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 193 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2015).
Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
It is one of 16 of the 121 inventoried bridges in Sutter County rated poor (13.2%); 16 (13.2%) are rated poor.
A poor rating means at least one major component - deck, superstructure, or substructure - is rated 4 or lower on FHWA's 0-9 scale. It does not by itself mean the bridge is unsafe; bridges judged unsafe are closed or load-restricted by their owners.

Component ratings


Structure	Continuous concrete tee beam
Length	about 38 ft
Location	0.6 Mi E of Metter Rd
NBI structure number	18C0101
Condition class	Poor

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the California department of transportation.

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
5TH Street over Feather River	2019	67,000	Good
5TH Street over 2ND Street Sutter Street	2019	67,000	Good
State Route 20 over Feather River K St UP RR	1947	48,000	Fair
State Route 20 over Abandoned UP RR Spur	1946	41,750	Good
State Route 20 over Sutter Street	1946	41,750	Good
State Route 99 SB over Cross Canal	1949	18,750	Fair