Total bridges
314
Public highway bridges in Cloud County
County profile · official public datasets
Cloud County, KS
314 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 52.5% rated Good, 40.8% Fair, 6.7% Poor.
- 314
- Public bridges
- 52.5%
- Good condition
- 6.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Cloud County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 71st
- of 104 on Poor share
- 6.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 314
- public highway bridges
- 1961
- 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.
Cloud County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cloud County ranks #71 of 104 Kansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.7%). Cloud County, Kansas contains 314 public highway bridges. Roughly 52.5% are rated “Good,” 40.8% “Fair,” and 6.7% “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
52.5%
165 of 314 rated 7-9
Fair condition
40.8%
128 of 314 rated 5-6
Poor condition
6.7%
21 of 314 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#71 of 104
Among Kansas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 314 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 52.5% (165)
Fair 40.8% (128)
Poor 6.7% (21)
Cloud County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,035 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 49 crossings a day against 533 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 314 of 314 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
69.1% of Cloud County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
217 of the 314 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 52.5% 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 15.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
RS 138 | 40th Rd over FISHER CREEK, built 1932, carries 165 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 21-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 1,035 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Cloud County's bridges were built
314 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1900s 6
1900–1909
6 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 16
1920–1929
16 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
42 bridges
- 1940s 22
1940–1949
22 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
87 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
36 bridges
- 1970s 16
1970–1979
16 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
44 bridges
- 1990s 23
1990–1999
23 bridges
- 2000s 12
2000–2009
12 bridges
- 2010s 7
2010–2019
7 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 87 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1961, 11 years older than the Kansas average of 1972.
How Cloud County compares with Kansas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kansas counties nearest Cloud County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.7% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1961 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 17 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 103 Kansas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee County | 317 | 42.6% | 53% | 4.4% | 1967 |
| Wyandotte County | 315 | 62.5% | 34.6% | 2.9% | 1980 |
| Douglas County | 314 | 78% | 21.3% | 0.6% | 1989 |
| Cloud County (this page) | 314 | 52.5% | 40.8% | 6.7% | 1961 |
| Jewell County | 307 | 57.3% | 35.5% | 7.2% | 1972 |
| Coffey County | 305 | 75.4% | 23.3% | 1.3% | 1984 |
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 Cloud 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 Cloud County, both outside Kansas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KS (314 bridges here).
- Jackson County, AL · 314 bridges
- Franklin County, MA · 314 bridges
- Audrain County, MO · 314 bridges
- Durham County, NC · 314 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KS (1961 here).
- Westchester County, NY · avg 1961 · 774 bridges
- Tehama County, CA · avg 1961 · 450 bridges
- Berkshire County, MA · avg 1961 · 450 bridges
- Schuylkill County, PA · avg 1961 · 368 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (165)
K9 HWY
GoodOver: COAL CREEK
6.99 MI SW K 28, Cloud, KS
Built 2014 Load: 49.6 t ADT: 705
US-81 HWY NB
GoodOver: WEST PIPE CREEK DRAINAGE
0.47MI N US-24, Cloud, KS
Built 1996 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 3,005
US-81 HWY SB
GoodOver: WEST PIPE CREEK DRAINAGE
4.0 MI N OF CLOUD SCOLN, Cloud, KS
Built 1997 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 3,005
US-81 HWY
GoodOver: COOL CREEK
1.90 MI N K9, Cloud, KS
Built 2000 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 4,420
Vale Rd
GoodOver: REPUBLICAN TRIBUTARY
2.1W 3.8N OF CONCORDIA, Cloud, KS
Built 2005 Load: 50.7 t ADT: 40
90th Rd
GoodOver: WEST BRANCH OF WOLF CK.
2.0S 5.5W OF CONCORDIA, Cloud, KS
Built 2009 Load: 51.0 t ADT: 10
RS 141 | Camp Rd
GoodOver: CHAPMAN CREEK
W. EDGE OF MILTONVALE, Cloud, KS
Built 2004 Load: 51.4 t ADT: 210
US-24 HWY
GoodOver: WEST PIPE CREEK DRAINAGE
0.23 MI E US-81, Cloud, KS
Built 2011 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 1,600
US-81 HWY
GoodOver: BNSF & KYLE RRs STREETS
0.18 MI N-JCT US-81/K-9, Cloud, KS
Built 1996 Load: 53.0 t ADT: 8,840
K28 HWY
GoodOver: WOLF CREEK
0.16 MI NW K9, Cloud, KS
Built 2000 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 820
150th Rd
GoodOver: WEST OAK CREEK
.5m E 3.9m S Concordia, Cloud, KS
Built 2015 Load: 54.1 t ADT: 50
US-81 HWY NB
GoodOver: US-24 HWY
04.03 MI N OTTAWA COLN, Cloud, KS
Built 1996 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 3,005
US-81 HWY SB
GoodOver: US-24 HWY
04.02 MI N OTTAWA COLN, Cloud, KS
Built 1996 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 3,005
US-81 HWY
GoodOver: WEST PIPE CREEK DRAINAGE
2.84 MI N US-24, Cloud, KS
Built 1996 Load: 68.9 t ADT: 3,005
US-81 HWY
GoodOver: WEST PIPE CREEK DRAINAGE
0.86 MI N US-24, Cloud, KS
Built 1996 Load: 81.6 t ADT: 3,005
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