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Coos CountyNew Hampshire

Shelburne, New Hampshire

3 of its 10 inventoried bridges are rated poor (30%, against 8% statewide). Bedrock sits a median 43 ft down across 55 logs, deeper than the New Hampshire median of 20 ft.

Median depth to bedrock

43 ft

middle half 20–79 ft · 55 logs

Bridges rated poor

3

of 10 inventoried

FEMA repair $, Coos County

$7.8M

federal share since 2010 · county-wide

01 · Bridges

3 of 10 bridges are rated poor — above the New Hampshire rate of 8%

Every highway bridge and large culvert in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory that stands inside Shelburne. Median age 65 years.

50% good, 30% poor

FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
  • Good5 · 50%
  • Fair2 · 20%
  • Poor3 · 30%
n = 10 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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BuiltStructures
pre-19101
1920s1
1930s1
1960s4
1970s2
1980s1

The poor-rated bridges

Bridges rated poor in Shelburne
CarriesOverBuiltDaily traffic
US 2PEA BROOK19324,334
NORTH ROADANDROSCOGGIN RIVER1900281
VILLAGE ROADCLEMENT BROOK192944
Every poor bridge in New England

02 · Ground

Rock turns up a median 43 ft down

From 55 depth-to-rock records inside Shelburne (NH DES well inventory). Logs cluster where people drill wells and bore for roads, so treat this as the town’s pattern, not a site answer.

Half of Shelburne's logs reach rock between 20 and 79 ft

Depth to bedrock: 10th–90th percentile whisker, middle-half box, median tick; dashed line = New Hampshire median.
median 43 ft
NH 20 ft
050100 ft
051015200–5 ft5–10 ft10–20 ft20–50 ft50–100 ft100+ ft
n = 55 logsSource: NH DES well inventory
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Depth to rock (ft)Logs
0–51
5–104
10–209
20–5016
50–10014
100+11

Rock within 10 ft

14%

of logs (31% across New Hampshire). Shallow rock means ledge in excavations, refusal for driven piles and rock anchors rather than soil nails; deep ground means taller shoring and more groundwater. 42% of logs here go past 50 ft.
Bedrock & soils across New England

03 · Dams & disasters

Coos County has drawn $7.8M in federal disaster repair since 2010

FEMA Public Assistance is reported by county, so the figure below is Coos County-wide context, not a Shelburne number.

FEMA Public Assistance, Coos County

$7.8M

Federal share obligated across 184 projects in 11 declared disasters since 2010. The largest category is roads & bridges (81%); roads & bridges took $6.2M.
Dams, disasters & moving ground

04 · Next door

Shelburne and the 6 towns that border it

A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
Shelburne compared with neighbouring towns
TownPoor bridgesRock depth
Shelburne, NH3 / 1043 ft
South Oxford, ME1 / 1618 ft
North Oxford, ME0 / 1030 ft
Gorham, NH0 / 954 ft
Gilead, ME3 / 460 ft
Beans purchase, NH0 / 2—
Success, NH—25 ft

Where these numbers come from

Method, sources & caveats

Shelburne is the Census county subdivision 3300768980 (Coos County). Every record is placed here by its coordinates, not by the place name the source uses.

  • Towns are Census county subdivisions: cities, towns, plantations, and Maine/New Hampshire unorganized territories and townships. Every record is placed in a town by its coordinates (point-in-polygon), not by the source's own place label — so a bridge in Roxbury counts for Boston and a well in 'North Waltham' counts for Waltham.
  • Bridges: FHWA NBI 2025, highway structures ≥ 20 ft including large culverts. 'Poor' is FHWA's good/fair/poor rating (lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert ≤ 4). Percent-poor is shown only for towns with at least 5 structures.
  • Depth to bedrock is the median of driller- and boring-reported depths in the town, shown only where at least 10 logs exist. Water-well logs over-sample rural lots and hilltops; one town median never describes a particular site.
  • Bedrock depths use the same state databases and filters as the Bedrock & soils module (bedrock wells and borings that reached rock, 0 < depth ≤ 400 ft, exact re-filings dropped), but every log is placed in a town by its coordinates rather than the driller's town field, so town counts can differ slightly between the two pages. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no statewide public well-log database with depths.
  • Dams: only high-hazard-potential dams whose latest condition assessment is Poor or Unsatisfactory are counted (live NID). Connecticut and Rhode Island assessments may lag.
  • FEMA Public Assistance dollars are federal share obligated for disasters declared since 2010, reported by county — they are county context, not a town figure.
  • Grant awards are Massachusetts only (EEA Dam & Seawall program, MVP Action grants, CZM Coastal Resilience). Other states' programs are not yet included.
  • Ground-related permit counts cover only the municipal portals the pipeline reads (Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Worcester, Framingham, Providence, Portsmouth, Hartford and a few others) — an absent count means 'not covered', not zero.
Data as of
Sep 11, 2026
Generated
Sep 11, 2026
Records
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