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Orchard Road over Middle Fork Salt Creek

Brown County, Indiana · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Orchard Road over Middle Fork Salt Creek in Brown County, Indiana, 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 1979, making it 46 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 300 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2024).
Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
It is one of 17 of the 114 inventoried bridges in Brown County rated poor (14.9%); 17 (14.9%) 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 prestressed concrete single box beam
Length	about 70 ft
Location	0.1 Mi. East of SR 135
NBI structure number	0700022
Condition class	Poor

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
SR 46 over Greasy Creek	1964	14,040	Fair
SR 46 over North Fork Salt Creek	1964	11,699	Fair
SR 46 over North Fork Salt Creek	1964	10,596	Fair
SR 46 over North Fork Salt Creek	1964	10,520	Fair
SR 46 over N Fork Salt Creek	1928	9,341	Fair
SR 46 over Gnaw Bone Creek	1960	8,485	Good