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County Route 42 over Little Tygart Creek

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

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

County Route 42 over Little Tygart Creek in Wood County, West 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 5 (fair condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1976, making it 49 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 700 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2022).
Its listed owner is the state highway agency.
It is one of 64 of the 181 inventoried bridges in Wood County rated fair (35.4%); 40 (22.1%) 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	Prestressed concrete channel beam
Length	about 51 ft
Location	0.02 M South of CR 40/2
NBI structure number	00000000054A092
Condition class	Fair

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Wv 14 over Branch of Pond Run	1945	37,900	Fair
Wv 14 over Pond Run	1945	37,900	Good
I-77 North & South over WV 95 Camden Avenue	2011	24,500	Good
I-77 Nbl & Sbl over Big Run	1965	20,200	Fair
I-77 Nbl over US 50	1963	19,400	Poor
West Virginia 14 over Little Kanawha River	1935	19,300	Poor