Total bridges
194
Public highway bridges in Howard County
County profile · official public datasets
Howard County, IN
194 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.2% rated Good, 55.2% Fair, 4.6% Poor.
- 194
- Public bridges
- 40.2%
- Good condition
- 4.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Howard County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 48%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 4.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 194
- public highway bridges
- 1976
- 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.
Howard County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Howard County ranks #44 of 92 Indiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.6%). Howard County, Indiana contains 194 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.2% are rated “Good,” 55.2% “Fair,” and 4.6% “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
40.2%
78 of 194 rated 7-9
Fair condition
55.2%
107 of 194 rated 5-6
Poor condition
4.6%
9 of 194 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#44 of 92
Among Indiana counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 194 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40.2% (78)
Fair 55.2% (107)
Poor 4.6% (9)
Howard County's Poor-condition bridges carry 21,532 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,392 crossings a day against 6,261 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 194 of 194 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
49% of Howard County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
95 of the 194 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 40.2% 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 32.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
UNION ST over WILDCAT CREEK, built 1958, carries 6,909 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 9-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 21,532 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Howard County's bridges were built
194 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1910s 4
1910–1919
4 bridges
- 1920s 6
1920–1929
6 bridges
- 1930s 12
1930–1939
12 bridges
- 1940s 13
1940–1949
13 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
20 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
28 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
21 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
23 bridges
- 1990s 15
1990–1999
15 bridges
- 2000s 8
2000–2009
8 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
42 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 42 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Indiana average (1978).
How Howard County compares with Indiana's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Indiana counties nearest Howard County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.6% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 91 Indiana counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain County | 197 | 24.9% | 67% | 8.1% | 1964 |
| Warrick County | 197 | 48.7% | 47.7% | 3.6% | 1981 |
| Adams County | 194 | 45.4% | 53.6% | 1% | 1983 |
| Howard County (this page) | 194 | 40.2% | 55.2% | 4.6% | 1976 |
| Wabash County | 192 | 28.1% | 65.6% | 6.3% | 1976 |
| Jay County | 191 | 45% | 48.7% | 6.3% | 1982 |
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 Howard 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 Howard County, both outside Indiana so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside IN (194 bridges here).
- Franklin County, AL · 194 bridges
- Poinsett County, AR · 194 bridges
- Trinity County, CA · 194 bridges
- Colquitt County, GA · 194 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside IN (1976 here).
- Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
- Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
- Prince George's County, MD · avg 1976 · 576 bridges
- New Castle County, DE · avg 1976 · 527 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (194)
CR 1400 E
FairOver: LITTLE PIPE CREEK
0.8 MI N SR 22, Howard, IN
Built 1957 Load: 10.4 t ADT: 43
IZAAK WALTON RD
FairOver: KOKOMO CREEK
0.3 MI N CR 300 S, Howard, IN
Built 1940 Load: 14.2 t ADT: 3,055
CR 500 E
FairOver: SOUTH FORK DEER CREEK
0.6 MI N CR 300 N, Howard, IN
Built 1940 Load: 16.0 t ADT: 632
CR 750 W
FairOver: EAST FORK HONEY CREEK
0.3 MI S CR 150 S, Howard, IN
Built 1910 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 800
CR 1400 E
FairOver: GRASSY FORK CREEK
0.8 MI S CR 300 S, Howard, IN
Built 1959 Load: 21.2 t ADT: 112
CR 1020 E
FairOver: ROBERTS DITCH
0.1 MI S CR 100 S, Howard, IN
Built 1930 Load: 22.2 t ADT: 269
CR 50 E
FairOver: EAST FORK LITTLE WILDCAT
0.2 MI S SR 26, Howard, IN
Built 1920 Load: 23.0 t ADT: 456
CR 1330 E
FairOver: GRASSY FORK CREEK
0.2 MI S CR 300 S, Howard, IN
Built 1940 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 91
SR 931 NB
FairOver: WILDCAT CREEK
00.67 N SR 22, Howard, IN
Built 1949 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 12,247
CR 500 N
FairOver: LITTLE DEER CREEK
0.2 MI E CR 900 W, Howard, IN
Built 1965 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 267
CR 300 S
FairOver: SOUTH FORK KOKOMO CREEK
0.3 MI E CR 200 E, Howard, IN
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,931
CR 900 W
FairOver: LITTLE DEER CREEK
0.2 MI N CR 500 N, Howard, IN
Built 1930 Load: 24.6 t ADT: 298
CR 1250 E
FairOver: GRASSY FORK DITCH
0.1 MI S CR 300 S, Howard, IN
Built 1962 Load: 25.5 t ADT: 198
CR 1250 E
FairOver: MIDDLE FORK DITCH
0.2 MI S CR 300 S, Howard, IN
Built 1962 Load: 25.5 t ADT: 198
CR 50 N
FairOver: KOKOMO WATERWORKS RESEVO
0.4 MI E CR 700 E, Howard, IN
Built 1959 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 736
CR 200 W
FairOver: WEST FORK LITTLE WILDCAT
0.0 MI INT CR 300 S, Howard, IN
Built 1940 Load: 26.4 t ADT: 11,000
CR 440 W
FairOver: WILDCAT CREEK
0.8 MI N CR 50 S, Howard, IN
Built 1965 Load: 27.8 t ADT: 900
LAFOUNTAIN ST
FairOver: KOKOMO CREEK
0.4 MI N LINCOLN RD, Howard, IN
Built 1940 Load: 27.8 t ADT: 4,492
MARKLAND AVE
FairOver: WILDCAT CREEK
0.0 MI INT PARK AVE, Howard, IN
Built 1940 Load: 27.8 t ADT: 5,821
OLD BEN DR
FairOver: KOKOMO CREEK
0.0 MI INT DEFENBAUGH ST, Howard, IN
Built 1970 Load: 28.4 t ADT: 5,280
CR 320 S
FairOver: EAST FORK HONEY CREEK
0.3 MI E CR 750 W, Howard, IN
Built 1940 Load: 28.8 t ADT: 613
CR 400 N
FairOver: HONEY CREEK
0.4 MI W CR 1000 E, Howard, IN
Built 1958 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 966
CR 300 S
FairOver: WILDCAT CREEK
0.6 MI E CR 1100 E, Howard, IN
Built 1956 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 226
CR 600 E
FairOver: KOKOMO CREEK
0.4 MI S CR 400 S, Howard, IN
Built 1920 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 292
SR 26
FairOver: MUD CREEK
02.75 E SR 213, Howard, IN
Built 1947 Load: 29.3 t ADT: 3,800
SR 931 NB
FairOver: KOKOMO CREEK
02.55 N SR 26, Howard, IN
Built 1949 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 19,257
CR 100 S
FairOver: HONEY CREEK
0.6 MI W CR 750 W, Howard, IN
Built 1975 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 311
CR 180 S
FairOver: WEST FORK HONEY CREEK
0.2 MI W CR 750 W, Howard, IN
Built 1975 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 55
CR 200 S
FairOver: LITTLE WILDCAT CREEK
0.1 MI E CR 500 W, Howard, IN
Built 1960 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 400
CR 450 N
FairOver: SUGAR CREEK
0.4 MI E CR 1100 E, Howard, IN
Built 1965 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 33
CR 100 S
FairOver: ROBERTS DITCH
0.1 MI W CR 1100 E, Howard, IN
Built 1965 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 220
SR 26
FairOver: EAST FORK HONEY CREEK
06.59 W SR 931, Howard, IN
Built 1994 Load: 29.5 t ADT: 6,216
CR 800 E
FairOver: DEER CREEK
0.3 MI S CR 600 N, Howard, IN
Built 1948 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 405
CR 1400 E
FairOver: HARPER DITCH
0.3 MI S CR 300 S, Howard, IN
Built 1959 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 112
CR 300 E
FairOver: SOUTH FORK DEER CREEK
0.1 MI N CR 400 N, Howard, IN
Built 1930 Load: 30.0 t ADT: 1,119
WEBSTER ST
FairOver: KOKOMO CREEK
0.0 MI INT BOULEVARD ST, Howard, IN
Built 1973 Load: 30.7 t ADT: 9,287
SR 19
FairOver: KOKOMO CREEK
01.95 S US 35, Howard, IN
Built 1958 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 3,154
CR 500 S
FairOver: EAST FORK HONEY CREEK
0.2 MI W CR 600 W, Howard, IN
Built 1976 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 272
CR 775 W
FairOver: WEST FORK HONEY CREEK
0.3 MI N SR 26, Howard, IN
Built 1974 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 200
CR 400 E
FairOver: KOKOMO CREEK
0.2 MI S CR 200 S, Howard, IN
Built 1993 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 1,358
CR 500 N
FairOver: LITTLE PIPE CREEK
0.3 MI W CR 1350 E, Howard, IN
Built 1910 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 141
CR 25 S
FairOver: BRANCH WILDCAT CREEK
0.2 MI E CR 1200 W, Howard, IN
Built 1930 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 300
CR 100 S
FairOver: BRANCH WILDCAT CREEK
0.5 MI E CR 1050 W, Howard, IN
Built 1925 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 150
HARRISON ST
FairOver: BRUNK DITCH
0.0 MI INT WALNUT ST, Howard, IN
Built 1966 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 1,954
SR 26
FairOver: E FORK LTL WILDCAT CR
00.15 E SR 931, Howard, IN
Built 1981 Load: 31.4 t ADT: 7,134
CR 950 W
FairOver: WILDCAT CREEK
0.3 MI S DIVISION RD, Howard, IN
Built 1972 Load: 31.4 t ADT: 230
CR 500 E
FairOver: KOKOMO WATERWORKS RESERV
0.3 MI N CR 50 N, Howard, IN
Built 1958 Load: 31.4 t ADT: 1,590
S MERIDIAN ST
FairOver: BRUNK DITCH
0.0 MI INT HOLIDAY LN, Howard, IN
Built 1967 Load: 31.4 t ADT: 2,233
CR 400 N
FairOver: DEER CREEK
0.3 MI W CR 900 E, Howard, IN
Built 1958 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 1,010
MARSHALL ST
FairOver: WEST FORK HONEY CREEK
0.0 MI INT WEST ST, Howard, IN
Built 1985 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 125
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