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Table 1-6: Number of Road Bridges by Owner: 2006

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Table 1-6: Number of Road Bridges by Owner: 2006

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State Federal State highway agency State toll authority Other state agency Local highway agency Local toll authority Other local agency Private (including railroad) Total
Alabama 112 5,680 0 31 10,023 0 0 33 15,879
Alaska 225 761 0 95 123 0 2 4 1,210
Arizona 438 4,514 0 33 2,288 0 1 3 7,282
Arkansas 159 7,111 0 5 5,226 0 0 4 12,505
California 493 11,952 9 164 11,390 11 66 34 24,119
Colorado 233 3,429 0 3 4,564 2 1 94 8,326
Connecticut 7 2,777 0 14 1,232 0 0 2 4,166
Delaware 6 816 0 1 7 18 0 1 849
District of Columbia 35 211 0 0 2 0 0 0 248
Florida 109 5,319 426 139 4,778 4 87 15 10,877
Georgia 201 6,510 0 15 7,743 0 1 53 14,523
Hawaii 23 712 0 1 370 0 0 5 1,112
Idaho 492 1,271 0 13 1,637 0 648 1 4,062
Illinois 43 7,572 434 40 17,694 0 22 138 25,943
Indiana 60 5,164 334 58 12,719 1 5 19 18,364
Iowa 41 3,994 0 23 20,613 3 1 92 24,825
Kansas 133 4,842 362 79 20,017 0 0 10 25,443
Kentucky 82 8,837 0 5 4,683 0 0 28 13,635
Louisiana 238 7,796 0 32 5,165 5 42 6 13,284
Maine 31 1,944 159 9 210 0 1 26 2,380
Maryland 110 2,533 253 27 2,173 0 10 7 5,114
Massachusetts 23 2,836 339 208 1,540 1 1 0 4,948
Michigan 87 4,406 4 2 6,378 0 10 3 10,890
Minnesota 87 3,562 0 53 9,254 0 14 63 13,033
Mississippi 458 5,560 0 6 10,896 0 0 32 16,952
Missouri 74 10,167 0 11 13,713 1 20 37 24,024
Montana 646 2,431 0 0 1,927 0 0 0 5,004
Nebraska 23 3,469 0 34 11,784 0 97 45 15,452
Nevada 37 956 0 3 613 0 11 10 1,630
New Hampshire 52 1,287 154 5 857 1 1 2 2,359
New Jersey 23 2,370 1,122 202 2,533 34 4 19 6,423
New Mexico 203 2,946 0 2 694 0 0 3 3,848
New York 53 7,429 738 204 8,520 169 112 110 17,335
North Carolina 258 16,656 1 25 724 0 0 2 17,666
North Dakota 52 1,119 0 6 3,292 0 4 9 4,482
Ohio 29 8,796 459 107 18,489 0 2 65 27,947
Oklahoma 93 6,769 767 11 15,820 0 1 3 23,464
Oregon 604 2,641 0 21 3,924 2 31 11 7,234
Pennsylvania 84 14,868 762 269 5,993 30 2 295 22,327
Rhode Island 3 591 3 10 139 0 6 1 753
South Carolina 37 8,352 0 3 826 0 0 20 9,238
South Dakota 104 1,811 0 21 4,009 0 0 0 5,945
Tennessee 344 8,074 0 37 11,341 0 6 1 19,803
Texas 185 32,285 58 41 16,576 262 75 12 49,522
Utah 137 1,710 0 2 970 0 6 2 2,827
Vermont 23 1,077 0 0 1,605 0 0 5 2,710
Virginia 312 11,768 12 5 1,097 34 0 130 13,358
Washington 629 3,083 0 16 3,838 0 17 5 7,588
West Virginia 62 6,656 99 20 107 0 10 8 6,962
Wisconsin 110 4,893 0 0 8,744 0 0 20 13,770
Wyoming 247 1,937 0 6 836 0 0 1 3,027
United States, total 8,350 274,250 6,495 2,117 299,696 578 1,317 1,489 594,667
U.S. total (incl. Puerto Rico) 8,355 276,056 6,495 2,117 300,016 578 1,318 1,490 596,800

NOTES: Some discrepancies exist between the total number of bridges reported in tables 1-5, 1-6, and 1-7 because of bridges not identified in one or more of the categories and other anomalies. Other state agency includes state parks, forests, reservations, and other state agencies. Local highway agency includes county, town or township, and city or municipal highway agencies. Other local agency includes local parks, forests, reservations, and other local agencies. Private includes highway bridges owned by railroads and other privates entities. Details may not add to totals, because totals include bridges for which ownership is unknown.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Bridge Technology, National Bridge Inventory: Highway Bridge by Owner, Washington, DC: 2007, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/britab.htm, as of Nov. 2, 2007.