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Cumberland County, KY

93 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 22.6% rated Good, 72% Fair, 5.4% Poor.

93
Public bridges: 22.6%
Good condition: 5.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Cumberland County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 33%
lowest Poor share in state: 5.4%
Poor-condition share: 93
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.

Cumberland County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cumberland County ranks #40 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.4%). Cumberland County, Kentucky contains 93 public highway bridges. Roughly 22.6% are rated “Good,” 72% “Fair,” and 5.4% “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

Public highway bridges in Cumberland County

Good condition

22.6%

21 of 93 rated 7-9

Fair condition

72%

67 of 93 rated 5-6

Poor condition

5.4%

5 of 93 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#40 of 120

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

Condition distribution

Share of 93 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

22.6% (21)

Fair

72% (67)

Poor

5.4% (5)

Cumberland County's Poor-condition bridges carry 845 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 169 crossings a day against 482 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 93 of 93 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

40.9% of Cumberland County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

38 of the 93 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 22.6% 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 41.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

KY-100 over German Branch, built 1949, carries 351 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 845 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

4
1940s

9
1950s

9
1960s

8
1970s

15
1980s

9
1990s

12
2000s

9
2010s

16
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 16 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Kentucky average (1978).

How Cumberland County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Cumberland County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.4% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is 5 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Cumberland County and the 5 Kentucky counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Fulton County	95	26.3%	62.1%	11.6%	1965
Henry County	94	22.3%	64.9%	12.8%	1979
Pendleton County	94	34%	61.7%	4.3%	1977
Cumberland County (this page)	93	22.6%	72%	5.4%	1981
Taylor County	92	55.4%	42.4%	2.2%	1984
Breckinridge County	91	37.4%	54.9%	7.7%	1973

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KY (93 bridges here).

Baker County, FL · 93 bridges
Banks County, GA · 93 bridges
Haralson County, GA · 93 bridges
Alexander County, IL · 93 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside KY (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 93 Good 21 Fair 67 Poor 5

All bridges (93)

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Cumberland County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Cumberland County's Poor-condition bridges carry 845 vehicle crossings a day

40.9% of Cumberland County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 41.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Cumberland County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (93)

DUTCH CRK CEM RD

KY-61

POPLAR GROVE RD

SPOON BRANCH RD

HUMPHREY HOLLOW RD

WEST FORK RD

Dutchmans Lane

KY-496

KY-379

KY-1880

KY-3146

Nina Claywell Road

Murray Branch Road

MIKE ANDERSON RD

HOMINY CREEK RD

BLACKS BRANCH RD

KY-449

KY-90

DUTCH CREEK RD

KY-90

KY-90

Trevor Lane

KY-691

KY-90

KY-90

KY-90

KY-90

KY-100

KY-3140

KY-912

SPEARS-HARDIN RD

KY-704

KY-691

POPLAR GROVE RD

ALLENS CREEK RD

KY-214

BEAR CREEK CHURCH

KY-691

HOWARDS BOTTOM RD

KY-496

Allens Creek Road

KY-90

Paul Willis Road

KY-1205

KY-90

BEAR CREEK RD

BEAR CREEK RD

ALBANY LOOP NO. 2

KY-704

KY-704

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