Total bridges
264
Public highway bridges in Pueblo County
County profile · official public datasets
Pueblo County, CO
264 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 29.5% rated Good, 65.9% Fair, 4.5% Poor.
- 264
- Public bridges
- 29.5%
- Good condition
- 4.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pueblo County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 48%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 4.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 264
- public highway bridges
- 1973
- 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.
Pueblo County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pueblo County ranks #31 of 64 Colorado counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.5%). Pueblo County, Colorado contains 264 public highway bridges. Roughly 29.5% are rated “Good,” 65.9% “Fair,” and 4.5% “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
29.5%
78 of 264 rated 7-9
Fair condition
65.9%
174 of 264 rated 5-6
Poor condition
4.5%
12 of 264 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#31 of 64
Among Colorado counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 264 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 29.5% (78)
Fair 65.9% (174)
Poor 4.5% (12)
Pueblo County's Poor-condition bridges carry 82,647 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 6,887 crossings a day against 9,836 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 264 of 264 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
51.5% of Pueblo County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
136 of the 264 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 29.5% 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 36.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US 50 ML over FOUNTAIN CREEK, built 1958, carries 30,000 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 82,647 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Pueblo County's bridges were built
264 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 5
1910–1919
5 bridges
- 1920s 16
1920–1929
16 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
19 bridges
- 1940s 4
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
36 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
42 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
34 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
22 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
41 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
24 bridges
- 2010s 16
2010–2019
16 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 42 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 15.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1973, 9 years older than the Colorado average of 1982.
How Pueblo County compares with Colorado's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Colorado counties nearest Pueblo County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.5% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 8 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 63 Colorado counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesa County | 319 | 35.1% | 63.3% | 1.6% | 1981 |
| Boulder County | 311 | 34.4% | 63.3% | 2.3% | 1987 |
| Pueblo County (this page) | 264 | 29.5% | 65.9% | 4.5% | 1973 |
| Douglas County | 263 | 57.8% | 39.9% | 2.3% | 1996 |
| Las Animas County | 207 | 26.1% | 59.9% | 14% | 1968 |
| Otero County | 195 | 24.6% | 65.1% | 10.3% | 1973 |
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 Pueblo 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 Pueblo County, both outside Colorado so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside CO (264 bridges here).
- O'Brien County, IA · 264 bridges
- Wise County, TX · 264 bridges
- Chatham County, GA · 265 bridges
- Rock County, MN · 265 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside CO (1973 here).
- Jefferson County, AL · avg 1973 · 1,068 bridges
- Erie County, NY · avg 1973 · 906 bridges
- Davidson County, TN · avg 1973 · 832 bridges
- Lancaster County, PA · avg 1973 · 801 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (174)
CNTY ROAD 33 LN
FairOver: BESSEMER DITCH
.4 MI S OF SOUTH RD, Pueblo, CO
Built 2001 Load: 49.6 t ADT: 114
CR 344/THACKER RD
FairOver: GRANEROS CREEK
5.8 MI ESE OF RYE, Pueblo, CO
Built 1999 Load: 50.3 t ADT: 280
CR 230/BURNT MILL
FairOver: DRY WASH
11.8 MI E OF BEULAH, Pueblo, CO
Built 1990 Load: 50.9 t ADT: 204
US 50 ML
FairOver: DRAW
17.7 MI E OF FREMONT-PUEB, Pueblo, CO
Built 1977 Load: 51.1 t ADT: 9,800
SH 96 ML
FairOver: BLUE RIBBON ARROYO
22.4 MI E OF CUSTER-PUEBL, Pueblo, CO
Built 1950 Load: 51.8 t ADT: 4,000
CR 212/N CK ROAD
FairOver: NORTH CREEK
1.0 MI ENE OF BEULAH, Pueblo, CO
Built 2002 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 202
SH 10 ML
FairOver: SAUNDERS ARROYO
1/2 BTWN WLSNBRG-LA JUNTA, Pueblo, CO
Built 2010 Load: 54.9 t ADT: 390
I 25 ML NBND
FairOver: DRAW
11.2MI N OF JCT US 50 W S, Pueblo, CO
Built 1958 Load: 58.9 t ADT: 17,500
CR230/BURNT MILL
FairOver: ST. CHARLES RIVER
4.0 MI SE OF BEULAH, Pueblo, CO
Built 1985 Load: 60.7 t ADT: 70
SH 96 ML
FairOver: BESSEMER DITCH
2.5 MI W OF SH45, Pueblo, CO
Built 1970 Load: 61.5 t ADT: 4,000
COUNTY ROAD 221
FairOver: DRY WASH
.2 MI W OF BUNRT MILL RD, Pueblo, CO
Built 1988 Load: 66.2 t ADT: 75
US 50 SERVICE RD
FairOver: DRAW SR
2.6 MI E OF JCT SH 96, Pueblo, CO
Built 1982 Load: 67.0 t ADT: 716
24TH STREET
FairOver: DRY CREEK
INTERSECTION TUX/ 24TH, Pueblo, CO
Built 1981 Load: 67.3 t ADT: 3,872
US 50 ML
FairOver: FRED ROHR GULCH
2.1 MI E OF FREMONT-PUEBL, Pueblo, CO
Built 1977 Load: 74.8 t ADT: 9,800
MILITARY RES BNDRY
FairOver: Drainage channel
1.5 mi. S of Int. w/ Rt., Pueblo, CO
Built 1978 Load: 82.3 t ADT: 100
COUNTY ROAD 613
FairOver: COLORADO CANAL
1.03 MI N OF SH 96, Pueblo, CO
Built 1989 Load: 85.3 t ADT: 12
US 50 ML
FairOver: DRAW
2.6 MI E OF JCT SH 96/SH, Pueblo, CO
Built 1976 Load: 90.5 t ADT: 14,000
SH 96 ML
FairOver: PECK CREEK
16.8 MI EAST OF JCT SH 67, Pueblo, CO
Built 1970 Load: 94.0 t ADT: 4,000
US 50 ML EBND
FairOver: WILLIAMS CREEK
0.3 MI E OF JCT SH 45, Pueblo, CO
Built 1975 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 21,500
CR227/Bergemann RD
FairOver: SALT CREEK
3.5 MI S of SH 78, Pueblo, CO
Built 1996 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 51
CR501/OVERTON RD
FairOver: UNNAMED DRAINAGE
8.6 MI N OF PUEBLO, Pueblo, CO
Built 2003 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 184
18TH STREET
FairOver: WILLIAMS + DRY CREEKS
At Graham Ave., Pueblo, CO
Built 1973 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 7,621
DILLON DRIVE
FairOver: UNNAMED DRAINAGE
200 ft S of SH47, Pueblo, CO
Built 2000 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 18,466
PARKER BLVD.
FairOver: WILLIAMS CREEK
.5 MI N OF SPAULDING, Pueblo, CO
Built 1999 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 66
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