Total bridges
99
Public highway bridges in Bullitt County
County profile · official public datasets
Bullitt County, KY
99 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 10.1% rated Good, 81.8% Fair, 8.1% Poor.
- 99
- Public bridges
- 10.1%
- Good condition
- 8.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bullitt County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- 76th
- of 120 on Poor share
- 8.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 99
- public highway bridges
- 1980
- 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.
Bullitt County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bullitt County ranks #76 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.1%). Bullitt County, Kentucky contains 99 public highway bridges. Roughly 10.1% are rated “Good,” 81.8% “Fair,” and 8.1% “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
10.1%
10 of 99 rated 7-9
Fair condition
81.8%
81 of 99 rated 5-6
Poor condition
8.1%
8 of 99 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#76 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 99 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 10.1% (10)
Fair 81.8% (81)
Poor 8.1% (8)
Bullitt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 15,417 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,927 crossings a day against 3,006 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 99 of 99 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
31.3% of Bullitt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
31 of the 99 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 10.1% 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 32.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
KY 1526 over FLOYDS FORK, built 1970, carries 4,945 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 15,417 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bullitt County's bridges were built
99 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1930s 5
1930–1939
5 bridges
- 1940s 4
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
13 bridges
- 1960s 4
1960–1969
4 bridges
- 1970s 7
1970–1979
7 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
28 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
14 bridges
- 2000s 7
2000–2009
7 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
13 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 28 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Bullitt County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Bullitt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.1% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence County | 103 | 19.4% | 72.8% | 7.8% | 1983 |
| Johnson County | 99 | 27.3% | 69.7% | 3% | 1983 |
| Bullitt County (this page) | 99 | 10.1% | 81.8% | 8.1% | 1980 |
| Butler County | 98 | 9.2% | 81.6% | 9.2% | 1971 |
| Mason County | 97 | 33% | 58.8% | 8.2% | 1980 |
| Fulton County | 95 | 26.3% | 62.1% | 11.6% | 1965 |
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 Bullitt 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 Bullitt County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (99 bridges here).
- Washington County, FL · 99 bridges
- Crisp County, GA · 99 bridges
- Harris County, GA · 99 bridges
- Newton County, GA · 99 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1980 here).
- Tulsa County, OK · avg 1980 · 1,135 bridges
- Miami-Dade County, FL · avg 1980 · 1,057 bridges
- Pulaski County, AR · avg 1980 · 721 bridges
- McLennan County, TX · avg 1980 · 714 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (81)
KY 480
FairOver: BR OF CEDAR CREEK
0.15 MI E OF KY 1604, Bullitt, KY
Built 1965 Load: 41.5 t ADT: 3,558
CEDAR CREEK RD
FairOver: CEDAR CREEK
0.3 MI N OF KY 1116, Bullitt, KY
Built 1986 Load: 42.9 t ADT: 698
KY 1526
FairOver: I-65
0.6 MI E OF KY 1020, Bullitt, KY
Built 1985 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 25,135
GREENWELL-FORD RD
FairOver: SALT RIVER
0.1 MI N OF RIVER BTM RD, Bullitt, KY
Built 2004 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 287
GRIGSBY LN
FairOver: E FORK COX CREEK
0.55 MI N OF KY 480, Bullitt, KY
Built 1984 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 100
RAMBLIN RD
FairOver: WHITTAKER RUN
70 FT W OF US 31E, Bullitt, KY
Built 1999 Load: 46.3 t ADT: 50
KY 2673
FairOver: BLUE LICK CREEK
1 MI S OF KY 1020, Bullitt, KY
Built 1999 Load: 47.3 t ADT: 3,380
KY 3219
FairOver: I-65
0.7 MI E OF KY 61, Bullitt, KY
Built 1986 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 1,277
KY 3219
FairOver: LONG LICK CREEK
0.5 MI W OF KY 245, Bullitt, KY
Built 1991 Load: 48.5 t ADT: 541
I-65 SB
FairOver: E OAK ST
1.0 MI N OF KY 61, Bullitt, KY
Built 1985 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 32,009
I-65 NB
FairOver: E OAK ST
1.0 MI N OF KY 61, Bullitt, KY
Built 1985 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 32,009
PRYOR VALLEY RD
FairOver: BLUELICK CREEK
1.3 MI N OF KY 2673, Bullitt, KY
Built 2002 Load: 49.3 t ADT: 50
US 31E
FairOver: WHITTAKER RUN
1.2 MI S OF KY 44, Bullitt, KY
Built 1998 Load: 49.8 t ADT: 10,405
KY 480
FairOver: BUFFALO RUN
0.3 MI E OF I-65, Bullitt, KY
Built 2001 Load: 51.1 t ADT: 8,482
KY 1526
FairOver: KNOB CREEK
0.1 MI E OF KY 2672, Bullitt, KY
Built 1998 Load: 51.5 t ADT: 1,102
S 31E LOOP
FairOver: MULBERRY RUN
0.2 MI S OF N JCT US 31E, Bullitt, KY
Built 2011 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 7,803
KY 3538
FairOver: BUFFALO RUN
260 FT W OF KY 480, Bullitt, KY
Built 2017 Load: 51.8 t ADT: 3,532
CUPIO LODGE RD
FairOver: KNOB CREEK
0.25 MI S OF KY 44, Bullitt, KY
Built 1976 Load: 52.1 t ADT: 100
KY 61 NB
FairOver: CSX RAILROAD
1.8 MI N OF KY 44, Bullitt, KY
Built 2017 Load: 52.5 t ADT: 4,247
KY 1494
FairOver: LONG LICK CREEK
2.4 MI S OF N JCT KY 61, Bullitt, KY
Built 2010 Load: 53.1 t ADT: 608
PAULEYS GAP RD
FairOver: BRIER CREEK
0.65 MI N OF WEAVRS RN RD, Bullitt, KY
Built 1980 Load: 54.1 t ADT: 1,000
US 31E
FairOver: WHITTAKER RUN
1.7 MI S OF KY 44, Bullitt, KY
Built 1998 Load: 56.5 t ADT: 10,405
KY 480
FairOver: LICKSKILLET CREEK
240 FT E OF KY 1442, Bullitt, KY
Built 2018 Load: 59.6 t ADT: 5,180
US 31E
FairOver: WHITTAKER RUN
0.9 MI S OF KY 44, Bullitt, KY
Built 1998 Load: 61.0 t ADT: 10,405
CROSS CREEK LN
FairOver: BROAD RUN
AT DEACON TRACE RD, Bullitt, KY
Built 2002 Load: 64.4 t ADT: 75
KY 480
FairOver: COX CREEK
1.0 MI W OF NELSON CL, Bullitt, KY
Built 1979 Load: 67.6 t ADT: 1,039
I-65 SB
FairOver: LONG LICK CREEK
0.45 MI N OF KY 245, Bullitt, KY
Built 1984 Load: 76.5 t ADT: 37,197
I-65 NB
FairOver: LONG LICK CREEK
0.45 MI N OF KY 245, Bullitt, KY
Built 1984 Load: 76.5 t ADT: 37,197
KY 1526
FairOver: BR OF BROOKS RUN
0.3 MI E OF I-65, Bullitt, KY
Built 1997 Load: 88.2 t ADT: 14,176
KY 1526
FairOver: BROOKS RUN
0.5 MI E OF KY 1020, Bullitt, KY
Built 1985 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 9,542
US 31E
FairOver: TRIB TO FLOYDS FORK
AT JEFFERSON CL, Bullitt, KY
Built 1993 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 33,295
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