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Nd Highway 18 over North Branch Turtle Rive

Grand Forks County, North Dakota · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Nd Highway 18 over North Branch Turtle Rive in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, 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 1952, making it 73 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 550 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2019).
Its listed owner is the state highway agency.
It is one of 196 of the 337 inventoried bridges in Grand Forks County rated fair (58.2%); 36 (10.7%) 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 55 ft
Location	3 North of US 2
NBI structure number	0018169414
Condition class	Fair

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
US Highway 2 over Red River of the North	1963	21,500	Fair
US Highway 2 over English Coulee	1988	20,450	Good
Columbia Road over Demers Ave & Bnrr	1984	19,000	Fair
Nd 297/DEMERS Ave over Bnrr-city Street	1972	18,500	Fair
Interstate 29 over English Coulee	1967	16,700	Fair
Nd Highway 297 over English Coulee	1970	14,000	Fair