This is a complete list of current and former bridges and other crossings of the Ohio River from the mouth at the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois to the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Illinois–Kentucky Image Crossing Carries Location Opened Coordinates Cairo Ohio River Bridge Cairo and Wickliffe 1937 Cairo Rail Bridge Canadian National Railway 1889,1952 Olmsted Locks and Dam Pulaski County, Illinois and Ballard County, Kentucky 2018 Lock and Dam Number 53 Chestnut Hills Nature Preserve and Monkey's Eyebrow 1929demolished 2020 Metropolis Bridge Canadian National Railway (Illinois Central Railroad) Metropolis and West Paducah 1917 Interstate 24 Bridge Metropolis and Paducah 1973 Lock and Dam Number 52 Brookport and Paducah 1929demolished 2020 Brookport Bridge 1929 Smithland Locks and Dam Hamletsburg and Smithland Lock and Dam No. 51 Golconda and Joy Elizabethtown Ferry Elizabethtown and Tolu Cave-in-Rock Ferry Cave-in-Rock and Ferry Shore Lock and Dam No. 50 Shawneetown Bridge Old Shawneetown and Spring Grove 1955
Indiana–Kentucky Image Crossing Carries Location Opened Coordinates John T. Myers Locks and Dam Point Township and Uniontown 1977 Uniontown Ferry Henderson Bridge (Ohio River) CSX Transportation Union Township and Henderson 1932 Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges Evansville and Henderson (crosses the river entirely within the state of Kentucky at this point) 1932, 1965 Proposed Interstate 69 Bridge Evansville and Henderson N/A Newburgh Lock and Dam Newburgh and Green River State Wildlife Area 1975 Owensboro Bridge Ohio Township and Owensboro 1940 William H. Natcher Bridge Ohio Township and Maceo 2002 Bob Cummings Lincoln Trail Bridge Cannelton and Hawesville 1966 Cannelton Locks and Dam Ohio River Troy Township and Skillman 1966 Matthew E. Welsh Bridge Mauckport and Brandenburg 1966 Sherman Minton Bridge New Albany and Louisville 1962 Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Bridge Norfolk Southern Railway 1912 McAlpine Locks and Dam (includes bridge to Shippingport Island, not all the way across river) 1830 Fourteenth Street Bridge Louisville and Indiana Railroad Clarksville and Louisville 1868, 1919 George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge (Pedestrian and automobile traffic) Jeffersonville and Louisville 1929 Spirit of Jefferson Ferry Temporary ferry service due to closure of Sherman Minton Bridge; no longer used after the bridge reopened in February 2012. John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge (southbound traffic) 1963 Abraham Lincoln Bridge (northbound traffic) 2015 Big Four Bridge Pedestrian (Former Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway line) 1895, 1929 Lewis and Clark Bridge Utica Township and Louisville 2016 Milton–Madison Bridge Madison and Milton 1929, 2014 Markland Dam Bridge York Township and Warsaw 1964 Rising Sun FerryRising Sun and Rabbit Hash 2018 Aurora–Petersburg Ferry - closed in 1978 Aurora and Petersburg Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge Lawrenceburg Township and West Petersburg 1977
Ohio–Kentucky Image Crossing Carries LocationOpened Coordinates Anderson Ferry Delhi Township and Constance Cincinnati Southern Bridge Norfolk Southern Railway Cincinnati and Ludlow 1877, 1922 Brent Spence Bridge Cincinnati and Covington 1963 C&O Railroad Bridge CSX Transportation Cincinnati Terminal 1929 Clay Wade Bailey Bridge 1899, 1974 John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge 1867 Taylor–Southgate Bridge Cincinnati and Newport 1995 Newport Southbank Bridge (Purple People Bridge) Pedestrian 1872, 1897 Daniel Carter Beard Bridge 1976 Combs–Hehl Bridge Cincinnati and Highland Heights 1979 Captain Anthony Meldahl Locks and Dam Washington Township and Willow Grove 1964 Augusta Ferry Lewis Township and Augusta William H. Harsha Bridge Aberdeen and Maysville 2000 Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge 1931 Carl Perkins Bridge Portsmouth and South Portsmouth 1988 U.S. Grant Bridge Portsmouth and South Shore 2006 Sciotoville Bridge CSX Transportation Sciotoville and Siloam (junction in) South Shore 1916 Jesse Stuart Memorial Bridge over the Greenup Lock and Dam Green Township and Lloyd 1984 Oakley C. Collins Memorial Bridge (New Ironton-Russell Bridge) Ironton and Russell 2016 Ben Williamson Memorial Bridge South Coal Grove and Ashland 1932 Simeon Willis Memorial Bridge North 1985
Ohio–West Virginia Image Crossing Carries LocationOpened Coordinates Norfolk Southern Bridge Norfolk Southern Railway South Point and Kenova 1913 West Huntington Bridge Union Township and Huntington 1970 Robert C. Byrd Bridge Chesapeake and Huntington 1994 Frank Gatski Memorial Bridge Proctorville and Huntington 1985 Robert C. Byrd Lock and Dam Clay Township and Gallipolis Ferry 1937 Silver Memorial Bridge Addison Township and Henderson 1969 Point Pleasant Rail Bridge Norfolk Southern Railway Addison Township and Point Pleasant 1885, 1919 Pomeroy–Mason Bridge Pomeroy and Mason 2008 Racine Lock and Dam Letart Township and Letart 1971 Ravenswood Bridge Lebanon Township and Ravenswood 1981 Belleville Lock and Dam Olive Township and Belleville 1968 Blennerhassett Island Bridge Belpre and Lubeck 2008 Parkersburg–Belpre Bridge Belpre and Parkersburg 1980 Parkersburg CSX Bridge CSX Transportation Marietta Subdivision 1871, 1905 Memorial Bridge 1954 Williamstown Bridge Marietta and Williamstown 1992 Marietta–Williamstown Interstate Bridge 1967 Willow Island Lock and Dam Newport Township and Eureka Island 1976 Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge Newport Township and St. Marys 1973 Sistersville Ferry Jackson Township and Sistersville New Martinsville Bridge Ohio Township and New Martinsville 1961 Hannibal Locks and Dam 1975 Moundsville Bridge West Virginia Department of Transportation: General Highway Map, Marshall County West Virginia, January 2004. Mead Township and Moundsville 1986 B & O Railroad Viaduct CSX Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line Bellaire and Benwood 1870 Bellaire Bridge (Closed, Demolition planned) 1926(closed 1991) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge Brookside and Wheeling 1985 Wheeling Suspension Bridge (crosses main channel only) Wheeling Island (WV) and Wheeling (crosses the main channel entirely within the state of West Virginia) 1849 Fort Henry Bridge Bridgeport, Wheeling Island and Wheeling 1955 Military Order of the Purple Heart Bridge (crosses back channel only) Bridgeport and Wheeling Island 1998 Aetnaville Bridge (crosses back channel only) Pedestrian Martin's Ferry and Wheeling Island 1891(closed 1988) Pike Island Locks and Dam Yorkville and Clearview 1963Wellsburg Bridge Wellsburg and Brilliant 2023 Wabash Bridge CSX Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway line Mingo Junction and Follansbee 1904 Wheeling–Pittsburgh Steel Railroad Bridge Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Steubenville and Coketown 1917 Market Street Bridge Steubenville and East Steubenville 1905 Steubenville Railroad Bridge Norfolk Southern Railway Steubenville and Weirton Veterans Memorial Bridge 1990 Fort Steuben Bridge 1928(demolished 2012) New Cumberland Locks and Dam Knox Township and New Cumberland 1961 Wayne Six Toll Bridge East Liverpool and Newell 1905 Chester Bridge East Liverpool and Chester 1897(demolished 1970) East Liverpool Railroad Bridge (abandoned) Former Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad line 1897(demolished 1969) Jennings Randolph Bridge 1977
Pennsylvania
Image Crossing Carries LocationOpened Coordinates Shippingport Bridge Shippingport and Midland 1964 Montgomery Locks and Dam Shippingport and Industry 1936 Vanport Bridge Potter Township and Vanport Township 1968 Beaver Bridge CSX Transportation Pittsburgh Subdivision Monaca and Beaver 1910 Rochester–Monaca Bridge Monaca and Rochester 1986 Monaca–East Rochester Bridge Monaca and East Rochester 1959 Ambridge–Aliquippa Bridge Aliquippa and Ambridge 1926 Dashields Locks and Dam Moon Township and Edgeworth 1929 Sewickley Bridge Orange Belt Moon Township and Sewickley 1981 Coraopolis Bridge (crosses back channel only) Yellow Belt Coraopolis and Neville Township 1995 Neville Island Bridge Robinson Township, Neville Township, and Glenfield 1976 Emsworth Locks and Dam Emsworth and Neville Township 1938 PC&Y Railroad Bridge (crosses back channel only) Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad Stowe Township and Neville Township 1894 Fleming Park Bridge (crosses back channel only) Neville Rd, Fleming Park Rd; four lanes with divided sidewalk on upstream side Stowe Township and Neville Township 1955 McKees Rocks Bridge SR 3104 / Blue Belt McKees Rocks and Pittsburgh 1931 Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge Norfolk Southern Railway Fort Wayne Line Pittsburgh 1915 West End Bridge 1932 Splits into Allegheny River and Monongahela River
The source of the Ohio River is at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River () at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
See also
List of crossings of the Allegheny River List of crossings of the Cumberland River List of crossings of the Green River List of crossings of the Monongahela River List of crossings of the Tennessee River List of crossings of the Lower Mississippi River List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River
References