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Cheyenne County, KS

100 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 47% rated Good, 47% Fair, 6% Poor.

100
Public bridges
47%
Good condition
6%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Cheyenne County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

67th
of 104 on Poor share
6%
Poor-condition share
100
public highway bridges
1971
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.

Cheyenne County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cheyenne County ranks #67 of 104 Kansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6%). Cheyenne County, Kansas contains 100 public highway bridges. Roughly 47% are rated “Good,” 47% “Fair,” and 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.

Total bridges

100

Public highway bridges in Cheyenne County

Good condition

47%

47 of 100 rated 7-9

Fair condition

47%

47 of 100 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6%

6 of 100 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#67 of 104

Among Kansas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 100 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
47% (47)
Fair
47% (47)
Poor
6% (6)

Cheyenne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 145 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 24 crossings a day against 224 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 100 of 100 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

63% of Cheyenne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

63 of the 100 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 47% 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 34.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

13 Road over PLUM CREEK, built 1966, carries 50 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 145 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Cheyenne County's bridges were built

100 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 23 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1971) matches the Kansas average (1972).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Cheyenne County compares with Kansas's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Kansas counties nearest Cheyenne County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1967 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 103 Kansas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Cheyenne County and the 5 Kansas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Gove County 109 1.8%
Hodgeman County 109 1.8%
Sherman County 105 1.9%
Rawlins County 103 14.6%
Clark County 102 2.9%
Cheyenne County (this page) 100 6%

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 Cheyenne 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 Cheyenne County, both outside Kansas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KS (100 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside KS (1971 here).

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 100 Good 47 Fair 47 Poor 6

Good-condition bridges (47)

I.5 Road (RS 877)

Good

Over: TRIB. S FORK REPUBLICAN

5.0S 9.0W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1963 Load: 10.9 t ADT: 65

J Road (RS 877)

Good

Over: CROSBY CREEK

5.0S 6.0W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1956 Load: 14.1 t ADT: 65

DD Road

Good

Over: DEVILS CANYON

15.0N 11.5W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1965 Load: 15.3 t ADT: 40

K161 HWY

Good

Over: BIG TIMBER CREEK DRG

7.04 MI NORTH OF US-36, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1951 Load: 15.4 t ADT: 595

16.5 Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: CLEVELAND RUN

5.6N 2.5E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1970 Load: 16.4 t ADT: 90

K Road (RS 877)

Good

Over: TRIB. S FORK REPUBLICAN

4.0S 5.0W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1956 Load: 17.1 t ADT: 65

L Road (RS 877)

Good

Over: TRIB. S FORK REPUBLICAN

3.0S 3.4W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1956 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 65

28 Road (RS 116)

Good

Over: TRIB LITTLE BEAVER CREEK

8.5S BIRD CITY, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1959 Load: 18.6 t ADT: 35

15 Road (RS 878)

Good

Over: LITTLE BEAVER CREEK

13.0S ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1964 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 40

11.5 Road (RS 877)

Good

Over: TRIB. S FORK REPUBLICAN

2.1S 2.6W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1956 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 170

US36 HWY

Good

Over: REPUBLICAN RIVER DRN

1.19MI E WJT K27, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1936 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 1,390

DD Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: HENKLE CANYON

15.0N 12.7E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1968 Load: 20.5 t ADT: 55

16 Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: PLUM CREEK

4.9N 2.2E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1970 Load: 21.1 t ADT: 90

24 Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: MAGNANI CANYON

13.7N 9.9E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1960 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 15

57 LOCAL RD.

Good

Over: JONES CANYON CREEK

17.0N 3.0E OF BIRD CITY, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1994 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 50

P Road

Good

Over: CHERRY CREEK

1.0N 8.0W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2012 Load: 23.2 t ADT: 20

DD Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: TRIBUTARY TO REPUBLICAN

15.0N 13.1E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 55

US36 HWY

Good

Over: REPUBLICAN RIVER

0.37 MI E WJCT K27, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1936 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 1,390

10 Road (RS 881)

Good

Over: LITTLE BEAVER CREEK

13.3S 4.0W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1994 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 25

R Road

Good

Over: FISH CREEK

3.0N 0.5W OF ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1959 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 70

31 Road (RS 882)

Good

Over: SOUTH FORK BEAVER CREEK

12.0S 3.0E BIRD CITY, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1971 Load: 25.0 t ADT: 70

W Road

Good

Over: S FORK REPUBLICAN RIVER

7.5N 4.0E OF ST.FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1988 Load: 29.1 t ADT: 50

22 Road (RS 1889)

Good

Over: DELAY CREEK

11.0N 8.0E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2000 Load: 29.2 t ADT: 15

(RS 115)

Good

Over: HELLS CANYON

9.5N 5.3E OF ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2021 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 50

LOCAL RD. 56

Good

Over: BIG TIMBER CREEK

17.0N OF BIRD CITY, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1987 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 40

R Road

Good

Over: TRIB. TO CHERRY CREEK

3.0N 2.5W OF ST.FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1973 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 50

14 Road

Good

Over: LITTLE BEAVER CREEK

13.5S OF ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1997 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 20

22 Road

Good

Over: MOREHOUSE CANYON

12.5N 7.5E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2000 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 20

31 Road

Good

Over: LITTLE BEAVER CREEK

5.0S 2.5E OF BIRD CITY, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2022 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 30

K27 HWY

Good

Over: CHERRY CREEK

1.43 MI. NORTH OF US-36, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1951 Load: 35.2 t ADT: 760

13.5 Road

Good

Over: CHERRY CREEK

0.5N 0.5W OF ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2007 Load: 36.7 t ADT: 75

K27 HWY

Good

Over: CHERRY CREEK DRAINAGE

2.80 MI. NORTH OF US-36, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1951 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 760

US36 HWY

Good

Over: REPUBLICAN RIVER DRN

0.78 MI E WJCT K27, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1985 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 1,390

BB Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: MAGNANI CANYON

13.0N 9.5E OF ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1987 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 15

25 Road

Good

Over: LITTLE BEAVER CREEK

10.0S 3.5W OF BIRD CITY, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1995 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 15

9 Road

Good

Over: CHERRY CREEK

5.0W OF ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1998 Load: 39.3 t ADT: 30

7 Road

Good

Over: CHERRY CREEK

1.0N 7.0W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2008 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 20

D Road

Good

Over: BATTLE CREEK

11.0S 9.9W of ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2015 Load: 46.4 t ADT: 20

7 Road

Good

Over: TRIB S FORK REPUBLICAN

5.0S 7.0W of St. Francis, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2013 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 30

Z Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: DAVE HARVEY CANYON

11.3N 6.4E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1984 Load: 55.2 t ADT: 40

K161 HWY

Good

Over: BIG TIMBER CREEK

9.46 MI N US-36, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2004 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 595

US-36 HWY

Good

Over: SAND CREEK

4.58 MI E WJCT K-27, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1997 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 1,770

H Road

Good

Over: COUPE CREEK

6.5S 11.3W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 2004 Load: 62.1 t ADT: 40

22 Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: HEINZELMAN CANYON

11.9N 8.1E ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1992 Load: 65.5 t ADT: 15

13 Road

Good

Over: FISH CREEK

2.5N 0.5W OF ST FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1985 Load: 67.1 t ADT: 50

15 Road (RS 115)

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

3.0N ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1963 Load: 75.4 t ADT: 135

2 Road (RS 877)

Good

Over: BATTLE CREEK

12.2S 12.0W ST. FRANCIS, Cheyenne, KS

Built 1993 Load: 76.7 t ADT: 15

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