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Gifford Road over Prather Creek

Venango County, Pennsylvania · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Gifford Road over Prather Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the substructure, rated 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1935 and reconstructed in 2001, making it 90 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 100 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2014).
Its listed owner is a town or township highway agency.
It is one of 27 of the 189 inventoried bridges in Venango County rated poor (14.3%); 27 (14.3%) 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 43 ft
Location	Plum Township
NBI structure number	000000000033912
Condition class	Poor

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
SR 80 EB & WB over Scrubgrass Creek Trib.	1965	22,605	Fair
SR 80 Eb/wb over over S F Lt Scrubgrass C	1966	22,181	Fair
SR 80 Eb/wb over over Lt Scrubgrass Ck	1966	22,181	Fair
State Street over Allegh.river Wny&pa RR	1990	13,560	Fair
SR 80 WB over SR 38	1965	11,995	Fair
SR 62 Washington X over over Wnyp RR & French Ck	1951	11,341	Fair