Total bridges
143
Public highway bridges in Casey County
County profile · official public datasets
Casey County, KY
143 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 14.7% rated Good, 77.6% Fair, 7.7% Poor.
- 143
- Public bridges
- 14.7%
- Good condition
- 7.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Casey County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 67th
- of 120 on Poor share
- 7.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 143
- public highway bridges
- 1976
- 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.
Casey County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Casey County ranks #67 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.7%). Casey County, Kentucky contains 143 public highway bridges. Roughly 14.7% are rated “Good,” 77.6% “Fair,” and 7.7% “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
14.7%
21 of 143 rated 7-9
Fair condition
77.6%
111 of 143 rated 5-6
Poor condition
7.7%
11 of 143 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#67 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 143 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 14.7% (21)
Fair 77.6% (111)
Poor 7.7% (11)
Casey County's Poor-condition bridges carry 16,916 vehicle crossings a day
That is 15% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,538 crossings a day against 990 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 143 of 143 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
43.4% of Casey County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
62 of the 143 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 14.7% 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 53.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US-127 over GREEN RIVER IN LIBERTY, built 1957, carries 9,092 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 11-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 16,916 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Casey County's bridges were built
143 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
27 bridges
- 1940s 4
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s 11
1950–1959
11 bridges
- 1960s 8
1960–1969
8 bridges
- 1970s 10
1970–1979
10 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
18 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
32 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
17 bridges
- 2010s 7
2010–2019
7 bridges
- 2020s 6
2020–2029
6 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 32 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Casey County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Casey County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.7% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barren County | 147 | 12.9% | 83.7% | 3.4% | 1974 |
| Webster County | 144 | 9% | 80.6% | 10.4% | 1969 |
| Adair County | 143 | 17.5% | 74.8% | 7.7% | 1975 |
| Casey County (this page) | 143 | 14.7% | 77.6% | 7.7% | 1976 |
| Kenton County | 142 | 39.4% | 52.8% | 7.7% | 1978 |
| Boone County | 138 | 40.6% | 55.1% | 4.3% | 1981 |
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 Casey 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 Casey County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (143 bridges here).
- Franklin County, AR · 143 bridges
- San Francisco County, CA · 143 bridges
- Woodson County, KS · 143 bridges
- Iberia County, LA · 143 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1976 here).
- Marion County, IN · avg 1976 · 958 bridges
- Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
- Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
- Prince George's County, MD · avg 1976 · 576 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (111)
KY-49
FairOver: WOLF PEN BRANCH
1.6 MI SOU. OF JCT KY 78, Casey, KY
Built 1930 Load: 54.3 t ADT: 776
KY-49
FairOver: MARTINS CREEK
0.6 MI. S.-JCT. KY 78, Casey, KY
Built 1982 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 776
CR-1133
FairOver: KNOB LICK CREEK
.1 MI S OF JCT CR 5037, Casey, KY
Built 1978 Load: 55.8 t ADT: 266
CHESTNUT LEVEL RD
FairOver: TRACE FORK CREEK
.15 MI SE JCT KY 501, Casey, KY
Built 1999 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 492
KY-1640
FairOver: GREEN RIVER
.45 MI N.W. OF JCT US 127, Casey, KY
Built 1972 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 1,019
SOUTH FORK CREEK R
FairOver: LITTLE CREEK
2.4 MI E. JCT KY 910, Casey, KY
Built 2000 Load: 60.6 t ADT: 610
ELK CAVE BRANCH RD
FairOver: ELK CAVE BRANCH
1.9 MI. SE OF JCT KY 37, Casey, KY
Built 2003 Load: 63.2 t ADT: 50
Upper Brush Creek
FairOver: Brush Creek
1.35 Mi N of KY-1552, Casey, KY
Built 2015 Load: 65.8 t ADT: 230
Fishing Creek Road
FairOver: Fishing Creek
0.2 Miles West of KY-328, Casey, KY
Built 2015 Load: 70.6 t ADT: 30
SLOAN FORK RD
FairOver: SOUTH FORK CREEK
200 S OF JCT CR 5122, Casey, KY
Built 1974 Load: 89.4 t ADT: 603
US-127
FairOver: CARPENTERS CREEK
AT LINCOLN - CASEY CL, Casey, KY
Built 1970 Load: 99.8 t ADT: 4,623
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