Scotts Mills Rd over Butte Creek

Marion County, Oregon · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

• Scotts Mills Rd over Butte Creek in Marion County, Oregon, is rated in fair condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the deck, rated 5 (fair condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 1947, making it 78 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 11,400 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2018).
• Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
• It is one of 262 of the 375 inventoried bridges in Marion County rated fair (69.9%); 29 (7.7%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is posted for load (NBI item 41).
• It was rated poor in the 2024 inventory and is now fair (deck 4 to 5, superstructure 4 to 5, substructure 6 to 7).
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated October 2024, on a 12-month routine inspection cycle.
• It has fracture-critical members (NBI item 92A): steel tension members without a redundant load path, which get their own scheduled inspections.
• 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.

View this bridge on a map → (45.04355, -122.66598)

Component ratings

Bridge details

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

Busiest bridges in Marion County

All bridges nearby: Marion County, OR bridge conditions · every bridge in Marion County · Oregon bridges.

Background: how bridge ratings work · what "poor" and "structurally deficient" actually mean · how often bridges are inspected.