Hamp Road over Alexauken Creek

Hunterdon County, New Jersey · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

• Hamp Road over Alexauken Creek in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 2 (critical condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 1900 and reconstructed in 1994, making it 125 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 67 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2021).
• Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
• It is one of 26 of the 373 inventoried bridges in Hunterdon County rated poor (7.0%); 26 (7.0%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is closed to all traffic (NBI item 41).
• Its condition class and component ratings are unchanged from the 2024 inventory.
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated April 2023, on a 24-month routine inspection cycle.
• It is coded scour critical (NBI item 113 = 2): scour critical: extensive scour observed, foundations unstable.
• It has fracture-critical members (NBI item 92A): steel tension members without a redundant load path, which get their own scheduled inspections.
• 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.

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

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