Chatlain Crossing over Bayou Natchitoches

Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

• Chatlain Crossing over Bayou Natchitoches in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, is rated in fair condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the deck, rated 5 (fair condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 2000, making it 25 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 150 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2020).
• Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
• It is one of 53 of the 150 inventoried bridges in Avoyelles Parish rated fair (35.3%); 26 (17.3%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is posted for load (NBI item 41).
• It was rated poor in the 2024 inventory and is now fair (substructure 1 to 5).
• Status change: reopened since 2024, when it was closed.
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated February 2024, on a 24-month routine inspection cycle.
• It is coded scour critical (NBI item 113 = 3): scour critical: foundations unstable for the assessed or calculated scour.
• A fair rating means the lowest-rated major component scores 5 or 6 on FHWA's 0-9 scale: some deterioration or minor section loss, but the structure is sound. It is the middle class, not a warning.

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

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