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Iron Bridge Road over Meherrin River

Brunswick County, Virginia · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Iron Bridge Road over Meherrin River in Brunswick County, Virginia, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 1 (imminent failure condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1884, making it 141 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 815 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2022).
Its listed owner is the state highway agency.
It is one of 12 of the 153 inventoried bridges in Brunswick County rated poor (7.8%); 12 (7.8%) 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	Aluminum or iron through truss
Length	about 191 ft
Location	.16FR 673 & 1.2 to 685
NBI structure number	000000000003767
Condition class	Poor

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Interstate-85 Nbl over Nottoway River	1968	12,874	Fair
Interstate-85 Sbl over Nottoway River	1968	12,408	Fair
Nbl Route 0085 over Waqua Creek	1969	12,394	Fair
Sbl I-85 over Waqua Creek	1969	12,355	Fair
Nbl Route 0085 over Pitchkettle Road Rte 614	1969	12,288	Fair
Route I-85 Nbl over N&S Railway (abandoned)	1969	12,288	Fair