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Addison CountyVermont

Lincoln, Vermont

Bedrock sits a median 28 ft down across 429 logs, deeper than the Vermont median of 20 ft. 1 of its 12 inventoried bridges is rated poor (8%, against 4% statewide).

Median depth to bedrock

28 ft

middle half 12–47 ft · 429 logs

Bridges rated poor

1

of 12 inventoried

Mapped landslides

24

USGS inventory points

FEMA repair $, Addison County

$17.8M

federal share since 2010 · county-wide

01 · Ground

Rock turns up a median 28 ft down

From 429 depth-to-rock records inside Lincoln (Vermont DEC well records). Logs cluster where people drill wells and bore for roads, so treat this as the town’s pattern, not a site answer.

Half of Lincoln's logs reach rock between 12 and 47 ft

Depth to bedrock: 10th–90th percentile whisker, middle-half box, median tick; dashed line = Vermont median.
median 28 ft
VT 20 ft
0204060 ft
0501001502000–5 ft5–10 ft10–20 ft20–50 ft50–100 ft100+ ft
n = 429 logsSource: Vermont DEC well records
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Depth to rock (ft)Logs
0–525
5–1055
10–2075
20–50178
50–10076
100+20

Rock within 10 ft

21%

of logs (34% across Vermont). 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. 21% of logs here go past 50 ft.

Mapped landslides

24

16 landslide · 4 rock, debris landslide · 1 debris landslide · 1 translational slide landslide · 1 earth rotational slump landslide. Inventory points from the USGS U.S. Landslide Inventory; many are prehistoric slides mapped from lidar.

02 · Bridges

1 of 12 bridges are rated poor — above the Vermont rate of 4%

Every highway bridge and large culvert in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory that stands inside Lincoln. Median age 86 years; 3 posted for weight.

33% good, 8% poor

FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
  • Good4 · 33%
  • Fair7 · 58%
  • Poor1 · 8%
n = 12 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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BuiltStructures
1910s2
1920s1
1930s3
1940s2
1950s1
2000s2
2010s1

The poor-rated bridges

Bridges rated poor in Lincoln
CarriesOverBuiltDaily traffic
C3006postedNEW HAVEN RIVER1919200
Every poor bridge in New England

03 · Dams & disasters

Addison County has drawn $17.8M in federal disaster repair since 2010

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

FEMA Public Assistance, Addison County

$17.8M

Federal share obligated across 312 projects in 12 declared disasters since 2010. The largest category is roads & bridges (76%); roads & bridges took $13.5M.
Dams, disasters & moving ground

04 · Next door

Lincoln and the 7 towns that border it

A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
Lincoln compared with neighbouring towns
TownPoor bridgesRock depth
Lincoln, VT1 / 1228 ft
Granville, VT0 / 1612 ft
Ripton, VT0 / 1242 ft
Warren, VT0 / 1217 ft
Fayston, VT1 / 1025 ft
Starksboro, VT1 / 1025 ft
Bristol, VT0 / 942 ft
Buels, VT

Where these numbers come from

Method, sources & caveats

Lincoln is the Census county subdivision 5000140075 (Addison 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
367,748
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Published by Earth Support Corp as a public resource. Regional statistics for planning and curiosity. They are not an engineering report, a bid recommendation or a statement about any particular site, firm or project. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it. Full method: methodology.

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