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Briar Creek Road over Ut to Edwards Branch

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Briar Creek Road over Ut to Edwards Branch in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, is rated in fair condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the deck, rated 6 (satisfactory condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1950 and reconstructed in 1965, making it 75 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 11,000 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2022).
Its listed owner is a city or municipal highway agency.
It is one of 374 of the 753 inventoried bridges in Mecklenburg County rated fair (49.7%); 19 (2.5%) are rated poor.
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.

Component ratings


Structure	Steel stringer or multi-beam girder
Length	about 41 ft
Location	0.2 MI.N.JCT.7TH Street
NBI structure number	000000001190428
Condition class	Fair

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
I85 SR2623 SR2624 over Irwin Creek	1957	190,000	Fair
I77 over Irwin Creek	1957	148,000	Fair
I85 & Ramps over Stony Creek	1965	146,000	Fair
I77 Nbl over West Trade Street	1972	140,000	Fair
I485 Wbl over Sugar Creek	1993	140,000	Good
I485 Ebl Ramp over I77 I485 Sugar Creek	1994	139,500	Fair