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Blain Highway over Crooked Creek

Ross County, Ohio · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Blain Highway over Crooked Creek in Ross County, Ohio, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1939 and reconstructed in 1981, making it 86 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 397 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2015).
Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
It is one of 29 of the 355 inventoried bridges in Ross County rated poor (8.2%); 29 (8.2%) are rated poor.
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.

Component ratings


Structure	Continuous steel stringer or multi-beam girder
Length	about 54 ft
Location	.10 Mi. W of Mt. Tabor Rd
NBI structure number	7141270
Condition class	Poor

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
US 23 over Scioto River	1968	47,570	Good
US 23 over Scioto River	1968	47,570	Good
US 35 over Scioto River	1968	33,907	Fair
SR 159 over Scioto River & Stewart R	2002	30,821	Good
US 35 over Scioto River	1969	28,647	Fair
US 23 over N Branch of Indian Creek	1954	22,980	Fair