Total bridges
282
Public highway bridges in Daviess County
County profile · official public datasets
Daviess County, KY
282 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 18.4% rated Good, 75.9% Fair, 5.7% Poor.
- 282
- Public bridges
- 18.4%
- Good condition
- 5.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Daviess County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 35%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 5.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 282
- public highway bridges
- 1979
- 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.
Daviess County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Daviess County ranks #42 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.7%). Daviess County, Kentucky contains 282 public highway bridges. Roughly 18.4% are rated “Good,” 75.9% “Fair,” and 5.7% “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
18.4%
52 of 282 rated 7-9
Fair condition
75.9%
214 of 282 rated 5-6
Poor condition
5.7%
16 of 282 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#42 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 282 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 18.4% (52)
Fair 75.9% (214)
Poor 5.7% (16)
Daviess County's Poor-condition bridges carry 19,842 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,240 crossings a day against 3,921 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 281 of 282 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
44% of Daviess County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
124 of the 282 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 18.4% 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 33.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
LEWISPORT RD over ACCESS SPUR TO OMU PLANT, built 1965, carries 6,722 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 16-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 19,842 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Daviess County's bridges were built
282 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 6
1920–1929
6 bridges
- 1930s 11
1930–1939
11 bridges
- 1940s 8
1940–1949
8 bridges
- 1950s 19
1950–1959
19 bridges
- 1960s 24
1960–1969
24 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
76 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
46 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
38 bridges
- 2000s 25
2000–2009
25 bridges
- 2010s 28
2010–2019
28 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 76 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Daviess County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Daviess County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.7% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pike County | 331 | 26.9% | 59.5% | 13.6% | 1984 |
| Christian County | 300 | 23.7% | 72.3% | 4% | 1981 |
| Daviess County (this page) | 282 | 18.4% | 75.9% | 5.7% | 1979 |
| Harlan County | 252 | 25.8% | 58.3% | 15.9% | 1980 |
| Hopkins County | 251 | 10.4% | 80.5% | 9.2% | 1967 |
| Ohio County | 227 | 8.4% | 85% | 6.6% | 1970 |
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 Daviess 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 Daviess County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (282 bridges here).
- Acadia County, LA · 282 bridges
- New Madrid County, MO · 282 bridges
- Bastrop County, TX · 282 bridges
- Forrest County, MS · 283 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1979 here).
- Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
- Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
- McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges
- Madison County, IL · avg 1979 · 523 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (214)
OWENSBORO BYP
FairOver: TAMARACK RD
EBL .8 MI W-US 431 NTRCH, Daviess, KY
Built 1970 Load: 56.9 t ADT: 14,259
West Parrish Ave
FairOver: US 60
.8 MI W OF JCT KY 2698, Daviess, KY
Built 1969 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 15,013
KELLY CEMETERY RD
FairOver: LITTLE BLACKFORD CREEK
.2 MI S OF JCT US 60, Daviess, KY
Built 1979 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 492
CRANE POND RD
FairOver: W.H. NATCHER PARKWAY
.5.MI E OF JCT US 231, Daviess, KY
Built 1971 Load: 57.3 t ADT: 443
LYDANNE BRIDGE S
FairOver: FLAT LICK CREEK
0.1 MI. EAST KY 815, Daviess, KY
Built 1985 Load: 58.2 t ADT: 149
WEST MARKSBERRY RD
FairOver: UN-NAMED ROADWAY DITCH
@ JCT. US 431, Daviess, KY
Built 2003 Load: 59.1 t ADT: 109
ROBY RD
FairOver: N.Fork-Joes Branch
.1MI E JCT CR 1029, Daviess, KY
Built 2017 Load: 61.2 t ADT: 68
CURDSVILLE-DELAWAR
FairOver: PANTHER CREEK
0.3 MI E JCT KY 500, Daviess, KY
Built 1976 Load: 62.1 t ADT: 392
CR1065 Kelly Cem.
FairOver: Slop Creek
200 E Jct. KY 405, Daviess, KY
Built 2014 Load: 62.5 t ADT: 492
KY-1456
FairOver: W.H. NATCHER PARKWAY
.3 MI E OF JCT KY 298, Daviess, KY
Built 1972 Load: 62.7 t ADT: 466
FAIRVIEW AVENE
FairOver: W.H. NATCHER PARKWAY
.35 MI E OF JCT KY 298, Daviess, KY
Built 1972 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 9,386
WENDELL FORD EXPY
FairOver: OLD ICRR BED
WBL .30 MI NE OF GR RIV P, Daviess, KY
Built 1969 Load: 65.5 t ADT: 19,466
US-60
FairOver: TRIB- KELLY CREEK
0.2 MI.E JCT US 231, Daviess, KY
Built 1995 Load: 78.4 t ADT: 7,445
AU-9005
FairOver: RHODES CK
1.0 MI WEST OF KY 279 OP, Daviess, KY
Built 1970 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 7,541
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