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Tobacco Road over Cow Creek

Halifax County, Virginia · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Tobacco Road over Cow Creek in Halifax County, Virginia, is rated in fair condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the substructure, rated 6 (satisfactory condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1958, making it 67 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 246 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2022).
Its listed owner is the state highway agency.
It is one of 90 of the 160 inventoried bridges in Halifax County rated fair (56.2%); 11 (6.9%) are rated poor.
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.

Component ratings


Structure	Steel stringer or multi-beam girder
Length	about 42 ft
Location	1.45 to 40 - 0.25 to 649
NBI structure number	000000000009259
Condition class	Fair

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Broad Street over Dan River	1972	16,492	Good
John Randolf Blvd. over Reedy Creek	1938	11,418	Fair
Greens Folly Road over NS Railway	1963	7,758	Fair
James D Hagood Hy over Piney Creek	1965	5,797	Fair
Huell Matthews Hy over Stokes Creek	1993	5,555	Fair
John Randolph BLVD over NS Railway & Dan River	2005	5,430	Good