Home › West Virginia › Pleasants County › CR 12 over Cow Creek

CR 12 over Cow Creek

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

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

CR 12 over Cow Creek in Pleasants County, West 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 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1958 and reconstructed in 2002, making it 67 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 50 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2019).
Its listed owner is the state highway agency.
It is one of 6 of the 25 inventoried bridges in Pleasants County rated poor (24.0%); 6 (24.0%) 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 girder and floorbeam
Length	about 39 ft
Location	0.06 Mi South of CR 10
NBI structure number	00000000037A016
Condition class	Poor

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
West Virginia 2 over Middle Island Creek	1968	10,600	Fair
West Virginia 2 over CSX Railroad Tracks	2001	8,900	Fair
West Virginia 2 over French Creek	1999	8,700	Good
West Virginia 2 over Bull Creek	1995	7,300	Good
West Virginia 2 over Cow Creek	1930	7,200	Fair
West Virginia 2 over Power Plant Access Rd.	1977	7,200	Fair