Total bridges
84
Public highway bridges in Anderson County
County profile · official public datasets
Anderson County, KY
84 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 17.9% rated Good, 75% Fair, 7.1% Poor.
- 84
- Public bridges
- 17.9%
- Good condition
- 7.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Anderson County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- Top 46%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 7.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 84
- public highway bridges
- 1975
- 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.
Anderson County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Anderson County ranks #55 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.1%). Anderson County, Kentucky contains 84 public highway bridges. Roughly 17.9% are rated “Good,” 75% “Fair,” and 7.1% “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
17.9%
15 of 84 rated 7-9
Fair condition
75%
63 of 84 rated 5-6
Poor condition
7.1%
6 of 84 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#55 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 84 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 17.9% (15)
Fair 75% (63)
Poor 7.1% (6)
Anderson County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,824 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 804 crossings a day against 1,146 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 84 of 84 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
46.4% of Anderson County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
39 of the 84 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 17.9% 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 75.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US-62 over KENTUCKY RIVER, built 1932, carries 3,629 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 4,824 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Anderson County's bridges were built
84 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 4
1920–1929
4 bridges
- 1930s 8
1930–1939
8 bridges
- 1950s 6
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
21 bridges
- 1970s 2
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
15 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
16 bridges
- 2000s 5
2000–2009
5 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 21 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 25% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Anderson County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Anderson County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.1% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen County | 88 | 15.9% | 78.4% | 5.7% | 1983 |
| Rockcastle County | 87 | 20.7% | 70.1% | 9.2% | 1983 |
| Ballard County | 85 | 31.8% | 56.5% | 11.8% | 1971 |
| Anderson County (this page) | 84 | 17.9% | 75% | 7.1% | 1975 |
| Nicholas County | 82 | 31.7% | 63.4% | 4.9% | 1973 |
| Todd County | 80 | 16.3% | 76.3% | 7.5% | 1972 |
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 Anderson 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 Anderson County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (84 bridges here).
- Chaffee County, CO · 84 bridges
- Elbert County, GA · 84 bridges
- Glynn County, GA · 84 bridges
- Paulding County, GA · 84 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1975 here).
- San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
- Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
- Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
- Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (15)
CAREY MILL ROAD
GoodOver: BLUEGRASS PARKWAY
.2 MI S OF JCT KY 1291, Anderson, KY
Built 1965 Load: 22.3 t ADT: 23
Gilberts Creek Rd
GoodOver: Gilberts Creek
3.6 Mi. E of US127, Anderson, KY
Built 2019 Load: 30.5 t ADT: 61
KY-512
GoodOver: BENSON CREEK
4.8 MI. N JCT KY 44, Anderson, KY
Built 1996 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 436
Gilberts Creek Rd
GoodOver: Gilberts Creek
3.5 Miles East of US127, Anderson, KY
Built 2021 Load: 35.7 t ADT: 61
US 127
GoodOver: BG PARKWAY
0.3 MI. South of 513, Anderson, KY
Built 2003 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 13,110
OTIS FRANKLIN ROAD
GoodOver: BRANCH OF BENSON CREEK
100 WEST OF JCT KY 1875, Anderson, KY
Built 2008 Load: 36.4 t ADT: 50
KY 44
GoodOver: Crooked Creek
E of Spencer-Anderson CL, Anderson, KY
Built 2021 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 385
MUD LICK ROAD
GoodOver: MUDLICK CREEK
.5 MI E JCT HYATT RD, Anderson, KY
Built 1991 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 12
TRACY RD
GoodOver: Branch of Benson Creek
30 W 512 JCT, Anderson, KY
Built 2020 Load: 41.1 t ADT: 76
HAMMONDS CREEK RD
GoodOver: BR.-HAMMOND CREEK
1.5 MI N KY 44, Anderson, KY
Built 1992 Load: 41.3 t ADT: 287
BOND & LILLARD RD
GoodOver: CEDAR BROOK
.52 MI E. 127 BYPASS JCT, Anderson, KY
Built 2020 Load: 44.7 t ADT: 30
Duncan Road
GoodOver: Beaver Creek
.5 mi West of KY 53, Anderson, KY
Built 2019 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 50
US-62
GoodOver: FOX CREEK
.9 MI W. JCT KY 513, Anderson, KY
Built 1996 Load: 49.3 t ADT: 2,409
FOX CREEK ROAD
GoodOver: BRANCH-FOX CREEK
.3 MI S JCT US 62, Anderson, KY
Built 1991 Load: 52.7 t ADT: 141
SEARCY SCHOOL ROAD
GoodOver: BEAVER CREEK
1.2 MI W OF JCT KY 53, Anderson, KY
Built 2008 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 63
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