Total bridges
112
Public highway bridges in Bourbon County
County profile · official public datasets
Bourbon County, KY
112 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 18.8% rated Good, 78.6% Fair, 2.7% Poor.
- 112
- Public bridges
- 18.8%
- Good condition
- 2.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bourbon County posts a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 8%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 112
- public highway bridges
- 1974
- 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.
Bourbon County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bourbon County ranks #9 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.7%). Bourbon County, Kentucky contains 112 public highway bridges. Roughly 18.8% are rated “Good,” 78.6% “Fair,” and 2.7% “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
18.8%
21 of 112 rated 7-9
Fair condition
78.6%
88 of 112 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.7%
3 of 112 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#9 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 112 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 18.8% (21)
Fair 78.6% (88)
Poor 2.7% (3)
Bourbon County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,917 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,972 crossings a day against 2,496 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 112 of 112 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
47.3% of Bourbon County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
53 of the 112 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 18.8% 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 87.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US-27 over TOWNSEND CREEK, built 1948, carries 5,187 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 5,917 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bourbon County's bridges were built
112 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
11 bridges
- 1940s 6
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
18 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
13 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
10 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
15 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
21 bridges
- 2000s 7
2000–2009
7 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
9 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 21 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1974) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Bourbon County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Bourbon County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caldwell County | 116 | 12.1% | 81% | 6.9% | 1972 |
| Morgan County | 114 | 50.9% | 46.5% | 2.6% | 1981 |
| Leslie County | 112 | 28.6% | 58% | 13.4% | 1980 |
| Bourbon County (this page) | 112 | 18.8% | 78.6% | 2.7% | 1974 |
| Powell County | 110 | 39.1% | 59.1% | 1.8% | 1975 |
| Trigg County | 109 | 39.4% | 51.4% | 9.2% | 1980 |
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 Bourbon 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 Bourbon County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (112 bridges here).
- Columbia County, FL · 112 bridges
- Sumter County, FL · 112 bridges
- Houston County, GA · 112 bridges
- Tift County, GA · 112 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1974 here).
- Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
- Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
- Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
- Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (112)
Grimes-Batterton
GoodOver: Townsend Creek
0.650 E of KY353, Bourbon, KY
Built 2010 Load: 47.5 t ADT: 175
Townsend Valley Rd
GoodOver: Townsend Creek
.9 mile E of KY 353, Bourbon, KY
Built 2017 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 175
TOWNSEND VALLEY RD
GoodOver: TOWNSEND CREEK
1.6 MI W of JCT US 27, Bourbon, KY
Built 2015 Load: 50.9 t ADT: 140
Houston-Antioch Rd
GoodOver: Houston Creek
2 MI S OF JCT 27-68, Bourbon, KY
Built 2020 Load: 51.5 t ADT: 410
PEACOCK RD
GoodOver: ACQUIA RUN
.3 Mi S Currentsville Ln., Bourbon, KY
Built 1981 Load: 53.3 t ADT: 763
US 68
GoodOver: STONER CREEK
1.2 MI E OF N-JCT US 27, Bourbon, KY
Built 2011 Load: 61.9 t ADT: 5,900
US 27
GoodOver: HOUSTON CREEK
.60 MI S JCT US 460, Bourbon, KY
Built 2011 Load: 62.5 t ADT: 7,679
US 68
GoodOver: HINKSTON CREEK
.5 M E OF KY 1893, Bourbon, KY
Built 2016 Load: 86.2 t ADT: 6,759
US-460
GoodOver: MITCHELLS RUN
.34 MI. E JCT US 68X, Bourbon, KY
Built 1987 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 3,015
KY-1893
PoorOver: STONER CREEK
.5 MI W OF JCT KY 1940, Bourbon, KY
Built 1965 Load: 18.8 t ADT: 457
US-27
PoorOver: TOWNSEND CREEK
ON HARRISON-BOURBON CL, Bourbon, KY
Built 1948 Load: 26.9 t ADT: 5,187
KY-57
PoorOver: BOONE CREEK
.25 MI S OF JCT KY 537, Bourbon, KY
Built 1930 Load: 80.0 t ADT: 273
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