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Route 42 Sbl over Linville Creek

Rockingham County, Virginia · rated Good in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Route 42 Sbl over Linville Creek in Rockingham County, Virginia, is rated in good condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 7 (good condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1991, making it 34 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 4,785 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2022).
Its listed owner is the state highway agency.
It is one of 153 of the 287 inventoried bridges in Rockingham County rated good (53.3%); 9 (3.1%) are rated poor.
A good rating means every major component - deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert - is rated 7 or higher on FHWA's 0-9 scale: no more than minor problems.

Component ratings


Structure	Steel stringer or multi-beam girder
Length	about 171 ft
Location	0.35 Rt 780 - 0.15 Rt 753
NBI structure number	000000000023343
Condition class	Good

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Route 0081 over Trib Dry Fork	1960	52,694	Fair
Route 0081 over Dry Fork Creek	1966	52,192	Fair
I-81 Nbl over Blacks Run	1966	29,699	Fair
I-81 Sbl over Blacks Run	1959	28,820	Fair
I-81 Sbl over NS Railway	1959	28,820	Fair
I-81 Nbl over Blacks Run	1959	28,521	Fair