Total bridges
130
Public highway bridges in Kit Carson County
County profile · official public datasets
Kit Carson County, CO
130 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 30.8% rated Good, 67.7% Fair, 1.5% Poor.
- 130
- Public bridges
- 30.8%
- Good condition
- 1.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Kit Carson County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 16%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 1.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 130
- public highway bridges
- 1970
- avg year built
Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.
Kit Carson County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Kit Carson County ranks #10 of 64 Colorado counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.5%). Kit Carson County, Colorado contains 130 public highway bridges. Roughly 30.8% are rated “Good,” 67.7% “Fair,” and 1.5% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.
Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.
Good condition
30.8%
40 of 130 rated 7-9
Fair condition
67.7%
88 of 130 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.5%
2 of 130 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#10 of 64
Among Colorado counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 130 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 30.8% (40)
Fair 67.7% (88)
Poor 1.5% (2)
Kit Carson County's Poor-condition bridges carry 374 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 187 crossings a day against 719 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.
Computed over the 130 of 130 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
69.2% of Kit Carson County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
90 of the 130 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 30.8% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.
Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
One structure carries 90.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
COUNTY ROAD 31 over SPRING CREEK, built 1936, carries 339 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 374 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Kit Carson County's bridges were built
130 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 6
1930–1939
6 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s 9
1950–1959
9 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
60 bridges
- 1970s 19
1970–1979
19 bridges
- 1980s 14
1980–1989
14 bridges
- 1990s 14
1990–1999
14 bridges
- 2000s 2
2000–2009
2 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 60 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 46.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1970, 12 years older than the Colorado average of 1982.
How Kit Carson County compares with Colorado's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Colorado counties nearest Kit Carson County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.5% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1970 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 63 Colorado counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont County | 137 | 19.7% | 73.7% | 6.6% | 1966 |
| Prowers County | 137 | 17.5% | 69.3% | 13.1% | 1974 |
| Kit Carson County (this page) | 130 | 30.8% | 67.7% | 1.5% | 1970 |
| Lincoln County | 129 | 17.8% | 74.4% | 7.8% | 1977 |
| Montrose County | 118 | 36.4% | 61% | 2.5% | 1980 |
| Baca County | 106 | 21.7% | 72.6% | 5.7% | 1963 |
Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Kit Carson County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Kit Carson County, both outside Colorado so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside CO (130 bridges here).
- Bay County, FL · 130 bridges
- Lowndes County, GA · 130 bridges
- Whitfield County, GA · 130 bridges
- Monroe County, IA · 130 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside CO (1970 here).
- Hamilton County, OH · avg 1970 · 783 bridges
- Yavapai County, AZ · avg 1970 · 543 bridges
- Garfield County, OK · avg 1970 · 504 bridges
- San Luis Obispo County, CA · avg 1970 · 401 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (130)
COUNTY ROAD 60
GoodOver: MIDDLE BEAVER CREEK
1.5 MILES NORTH OF ROAD V, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1968 Load: 18.7 t ADT: 14
COUNTY ROAD 32
GoodOver: LANDSMAN CREEK TRIB.
0.25 MI S OF ROAD R, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1985 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 61
COUNTY ROAD 23
GoodOver: EAST BRANCH SPRING CREEK
1.5 MILES NORTH OF ROAD N, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1970 Load: 21.3 t ADT: 24
COUNTY ROAD 19
GoodOver: I 70 ML
14.5 MI E OF FLAGLER, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1964 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 17
COUNTY ROAD 23
GoodOver: I 70 ML
16.4 MI E OF FLAGLER, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1964 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 42
COUNTY ROAD 25
GoodOver: I 70 ML
20.5 MI. E. OF FLAGLER, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1964 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 21
COUNTY ROAD 45
GoodOver: I 70 ML
3 MI. W. OF JCT. US 385, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1966 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 112
US 385 ML
GoodOver: DRAW
0.1 MI S OF YUMA KIT CARS, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1978 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 740
SH 59 ML
GoodOver: S FK REPUBLICAN RIVER
4.2 MI N OF SEIBERT, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1969 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 640
COUNTY ROAD 55
GoodOver: SMOKY HILL RIVER
0.5 MILES NORTH OF ROAD G, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1985 Load: 30.3 t ADT: 66
I 70 ML EBND
GoodOver: COUNTY ROAD 59
11.5 MI. E OF JCT SH. 385, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1969 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 4,950
COUNTY ROAD 6
GoodOver: BUFFALO CREEK
1.8 MILES SOUTH OF ROAD D, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1992 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 35
I 70 ML EBND
GoodOver: COUNTY ROAD 57
9.4 MI. E. OF HWY 385, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1969 Load: 31.2 t ADT: 4,950
US 385 ML
GoodOver: BEAVER CREEK
6.9 MI. SO OF JCT. S.H. 2, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1969 Load: 31.4 t ADT: 1,300
SH 59 ML
GoodOver: SAND CREEK
2 MI N OF SEIBERT, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1969 Load: 31.8 t ADT: 640
US 24 ML
GoodOver: DRAW
4 MI E OF SEIBERT/SH59, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1932 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 370
US 385 ML
GoodOver: DRAW
11.5 MI. SO OF JCT. S-H., Kit Carson, CO
Built 1956 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 740
COUNTY ROAD 6
GoodOver: BUFFALO CREEK
1.1 MILES S OF ROAD DD, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1987 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 38
US 24 ML
GoodOver: LANDSMAN CREEK
1.3 MI W OF BETHUNE, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1998 Load: 38.4 t ADT: 1,000
SH 59 ML
GoodOver: I 70 ML
I70 at SEIBERT, Kit Carson, CO
Built 2018 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 1,200
COUNTY ROAD 40
GoodOver: REPUBLICAN RIVER
2.5 MILES NORTH OF ROAD L, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1999 Load: 43.6 t ADT: 39
COUNTY ROAD 59
GoodOver: LITTLE BEAVER CREEK
0.1 MILE NORTH OF ROAD KK, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1994 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 42
I 70 ML WBND
GoodOver: I70Q (ROSE AVE.)
1.4 MI. E. OF US 385, Kit Carson, CO
Built 2009 Load: 57.0 t ADT: 4,000
I 70 ML EBND
GoodOver: I70Q (ROSE AVE.)
1.4 MI. E. OF HWY 385, Kit Carson, CO
Built 2009 Load: 57.0 t ADT: 4,000
US 385 ML
GoodOver: BEAVER CREEK
5 MI S OF BURLINGTON, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1995 Load: 59.3 t ADT: 1,000
I 70 SERVICE RD
GoodOver: DRAW SR
0.75 MI W. OF KS BORDER, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1963 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 380
SH 59 ML
GoodOver: DRAW
4.8 MI S OF JCT I70, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1990 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 400
US 385 ML
GoodOver: DRAW
9.2 MI S OF BURLINGTON, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1995 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 1,000
COUNTY ROAD 31
PoorOver: SPRING CREEK
6.5 MILES NORTH OF US 24, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1936 Load: 16.2 t ADT: 339
COUNTY ROAD 23
PoorOver: S. FORK REPUBLICAN RIVER
2 MI NORTH COUNTY RD AA, Kit Carson, CO
Built 1963 Load: 33.9 t ADT: 35
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