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Pratt County, KS

118 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 65.3% rated Good, 34.7% Fair, 0% Poor.

118
Public bridges: 65.3%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Pratt County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 2%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 118
public highway bridges: 1981
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.

Pratt County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pratt County ranks #2 of 104 Kansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Pratt County, Kansas contains 118 public highway bridges. Roughly 65.3% are rated “Good,” 34.7% “Fair,” and 0% “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

118

Public highway bridges in Pratt County

Good condition

65.3%

77 of 118 rated 7-9

Fair condition

34.7%

41 of 118 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 118 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#2 of 104

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

Condition distribution

Share of 118 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

65.3% (77)

Fair

34.7% (41)

Poor

0% (0)

34.7% of Pratt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

41 of the 118 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 65.3% 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.

1920s

1
1930s

13
1940s

7
1950s

8
1960s

8
1970s

8
1980s

22
1990s

19
2000s

14
2010s

18

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 22 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1981, 9 years newer than the Kansas average of 1972.

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

The 5 Kansas counties nearest Pratt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is 12 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Pratt County and the 5 Kansas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Stafford County	119	50.4%	46.2%	3.4%	1979
Pratt County (this page)	118	65.3%	34.7%	0%	1981
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	109	44%	54.1%	1.8%	1963

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KS (118 bridges here).

Autauga County, AL · 118 bridges
Perry County, AR · 118 bridges
Montrose County, CO · 118 bridges
Rabun County, GA · 118 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside KS (1981 here).

Franklin County, OH · avg 1981 · 922 bridges
Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
Montgomery County, OH · avg 1981 · 632 bridges
McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges

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

All 118 Good 77 Fair 41 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (77)

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Pratt County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

34.7% of Pratt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Pratt 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

Good-condition bridges (77)

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