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Hodgeman County, KS

109 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 44% rated Good, 54.1% Fair, 1.8% Poor.

109
Public bridges: 44%
Good condition: 1.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hodgeman 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 24%
lowest Poor share in state: 1.8%
Poor-condition share: 109
public highway bridges: 1963
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.

Hodgeman County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hodgeman County ranks #25 of 104 Kansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.8%). Hodgeman County, Kansas contains 109 public highway bridges. Roughly 44% are rated “Good,” 54.1% “Fair,” and 1.8% “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

109

Public highway bridges in Hodgeman County

Good condition

44%

48 of 109 rated 7-9

Fair condition

54.1%

59 of 109 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.8%

2 of 109 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#25 of 104

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

Condition distribution

Share of 109 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

44% (48)

Fair

54.1% (59)

Poor

1.8% (2)

Hodgeman County's Poor-condition bridges carry 55 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 28 crossings a day against 623 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 109 of 109 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

66.1% of Hodgeman County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

72 of the 109 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 44% 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 54.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

R Road over PAWNEE RIVER, built 1940, carries 30 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 55 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

6
1930s

21
1940s

14
1950s

6
1960s

19
1970s

9
1980s

12
1990s

12
2000s

5
2010s

5

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 21 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1963, 9 years older than the Kansas average of 1972.

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

The 5 Kansas counties nearest Hodgeman County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.8% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1963 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 5 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hodgeman County and the 5 Kansas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Sheridan County	116	50.9%	39.7%	9.5%	1969
Comanche County	110	50.9%	48.2%	0.9%	1967
Gove County	109	45%	53.2%	1.8%	1968
Hodgeman County (this page)	109	44%	54.1%	1.8%	1963
Sherman County	105	69.5%	28.6%	1.9%	1969
Rawlins County	103	48.5%	36.9%	14.6%	1969

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KS (109 bridges here).

Mariposa County, CA · 109 bridges
Boone County, IL · 109 bridges
Trigg County, KY · 109 bridges
Dawson County, MT · 109 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside KS (1963 here).

Worcester County, MA · avg 1963 · 1,014 bridges
Honolulu County, HI · avg 1963 · 682 bridges
Chester County, PA · avg 1963 · 680 bridges
Essex County, NJ · avg 1963 · 505 bridges

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

All 109 Good 48 Fair 59 Poor 2

All bridges (109)

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Hodgeman County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Hodgeman County's Poor-condition bridges carry 55 vehicle crossings a day

66.1% of Hodgeman County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 54.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

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

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (109)

(RD 232) RD.os 64

232 Road

RS 1438 (RD S)

Road 205

RS 1438 (RD 5)

RS 226 RD D

RS 226 (228 Road)

(RD X) RD.os 17

RS 313 (RD 224)

(RD 234) RD.os 69

RS 1438 (RD S)

RS 949 (RD C)

(RD 220) RD.os 46

RS 1438 (RD S)

RS 950 (RD P)

RS 949 (RD D)

RS 1591 (RD 232)

K156 HWY

K156 HWY

K156 HWY

RS 1438 (RD S)

K156 HWY

K156 HWY

RS 226 (RD 228)

200 Road (Co Line)

(RD R).os 6

Road T

(RD 219) COL.os 42

(RD B) RD.os 47

(RD 213) RD.os 25

(RD L) RD.os 39

(RD M) RD.os 49

RS 226 (H Road)

(RD 217) RD.os 41

RS 1438 (RD S)

RS 255 (RD 210)

219 Road

(RD 225) RD.os 53

K156 HWY

(RD S) RD.os 66

205 Road

(RD 230) RD.os 60

RS 314 (RD 228)

RD 205

RS 255 (RD 210)

(RD 225) RD.os 52

RS 1438 (RD S)

(RD 230) RD.os 73

RS 1436 (RD 202)

RS 314 (RD 228)

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