Kempshall Mountain over Fishing Brook

Hamilton County, New York · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

• Kempshall Mountain over Fishing Brook in Hamilton County, New York, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the substructure, rated 1 (imminent failure condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 2016, making it 9 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 10 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2016).
• It is one of 13 of the 87 inventoried bridges in Hamilton County rated poor (14.9%); 13 (14.9%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is closed to all traffic (NBI item 41).
• Its class is unchanged from 2024 (poor), but component ratings moved: deck 8 to 7, substructure 2 to 1.
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated June 2024, on a 12-month routine inspection cycle.
• It is coded scour critical (NBI item 113 = 1): scour critical: field review indicates failure of piers or abutments is imminent.
• 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 York department of transportation.

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