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County Route 47/17 over Walker Creek

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

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

County Route 47/17 over Walker Creek in Wood 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 1977, making it 48 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 150 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2019).
Its listed owner is the state highway agency.
It is one of 40 of the 181 inventoried bridges in Wood County rated poor (22.1%); 40 (22.1%) 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	Prestressed concrete channel beam
Length	about 55 ft
Location	0.22 Mile North of Wv 47
NBI structure number	00000000054A100
Condition class	Poor

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