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Windham CountyVermont

Rockingham, Vermont

5 of its 22 inventoried bridges are rated poor (23%, against 4% statewide). Bedrock sits a median 27 ft down across 573 logs, deeper than the Vermont median of 20 ft.

Median depth to bedrock

27 ft

middle half 10–58 ft · 573 logs

Bridges rated poor

5

of 22 inventoried

Mapped landslides

3

USGS inventory points

FEMA repair $, Windham County

$44.3M

federal share since 2010 · county-wide

01 · Bridges

5 of 22 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 Rockingham. Median age 63 years; 7 posted for weight.

41% good, 23% poor

FHWA good / fair / poor rating — the lowest of deck, superstructure, substructure or culvert.
  • Good9 · 41%
  • Fair8 · 36%
  • Poor5 · 23%

Structures by decade built

02468pre-19101910s1920s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s
n = 22 structuresSource: FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025
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BuiltStructures
pre-19102
1910s1
1920s3
1950s2
1960s7
1970s1
1980s1
1990s1
2000s1
2010s2
2020s1

The poor-rated bridges

Bridges rated poor in Rockingham
CarriesOverBuiltDaily traffic
I 00091 MLI 91 OVER VT 103196315,000
US 00005 MLpostedUS 5 OVER GREEN MT RR1929970
US 00005 MLpostedWILLIAMS RIVER1929970
C3448postedPOWER DAM CANAL1909600
C3014postedGREEN MOUNTAIN RWY.1913100
Every poor bridge in New England

02 · Ground

Rock turns up a median 27 ft down

From 573 depth-to-rock records inside Rockingham (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 Rockingham's logs reach rock between 10 and 58 ft

Depth to bedrock: 10th–90th percentile whisker, middle-half box, median tick; dashed line = Vermont median.
median 27 ft
VT 20 ft
0255075 ft
0501001502000–5 ft5–10 ft10–20 ft20–50 ft50–100 ft100+ ft
n = 573 logsSource: Vermont DEC well records
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Depth to rock (ft)Logs
0–550
5–1081
10–2099
20–50164
50–100130
100+49

Rock within 10 ft

27%

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. 29% of logs here go past 50 ft.

Mapped landslides

3

1 rock_fall · 1 gully · 1 mass failure. Inventory points from the USGS U.S. Landslide Inventory; many are prehistoric slides mapped from lidar.

03 · Dams & disasters

Windham County has drawn $44.3M in federal disaster repair since 2010

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

FEMA Public Assistance, Windham County

$44.3M

Federal share obligated across 878 projects in 7 declared disasters since 2010. The largest category is roads & bridges (86%); roads & bridges took $38.3M.
Dams, disasters & moving ground

04 · Next door

Rockingham and the 7 towns that border it

A dash means no data for that layer, not zero.
Rockingham compared with neighbouring towns
TownPoor bridgesRock depth
Rockingham, VT5 / 2227 ft
Chester, VT2 / 4924 ft
Springfield, VT2 / 3524 ft
Grafton, VT0 / 1830 ft
Walpole, NH2 / 1614 ft
Charlestown, NH1 / 1321 ft
Westminster, VT0 / 1215 ft
Athens, VT1 / 421 ft

Where these numbers come from

Method, sources & caveats

Rockingham is the Census county subdivision 5002560250 (Windham 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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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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