Total bridges
53
Public highway bridges in Elliott County
County profile · official public datasets
Elliott County, KY
53 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 11.3% rated Good, 73.6% Fair, 15.1% Poor.
- 53
- Public bridges
- 11.3%
- Good condition
- 15.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Elliott County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- 116th
- of 120 on Poor share
- 15.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 53
- public highway bridges
- 1977
- 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.
Elliott County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Elliott County ranks #116 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 15.1%). Elliott County, Kentucky contains 53 public highway bridges. Roughly 11.3% are rated “Good,” 73.6% “Fair,” and 15.1% “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
11.3%
6 of 53 rated 7-9
Fair condition
73.6%
39 of 53 rated 5-6
Poor condition
15.1%
8 of 53 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#116 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 53 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 11.3% (6)
Fair 73.6% (39)
Poor 15.1% (8)
Elliott County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,105 vehicle crossings a day
That is 4.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 15.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 138 crossings a day against 467 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 53 of 53 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
43.4% of Elliott County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
23 of the 53 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 11.3% 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 35.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
KY-504 over LITTLE CANEY CREEK, built 1966, carries 392 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 1,105 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Elliott County's bridges were built
53 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 4
1930–1939
4 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
7 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
11 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
7 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
7 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 11 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1977) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Elliott County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Elliott County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 15.1% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1977 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gallatin County | 55 | 21.8% | 74.5% | 3.6% | 1971 |
| Owsley County | 55 | 38.2% | 58.2% | 3.6% | 1982 |
| Larue County | 54 | 55.6% | 37% | 7.4% | 1981 |
| Owen County | 54 | 18.5% | 77.8% | 3.7% | 1975 |
| Elliott County (this page) | 53 | 11.3% | 73.6% | 15.1% | 1977 |
| Jackson County | 51 | 25.5% | 64.7% | 9.8% | 1969 |
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 Elliott 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 Elliott County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (53 bridges here).
- Cleburne County, AR · 53 bridges
- Citrus County, FL · 53 bridges
- Lumpkin County, GA · 53 bridges
- Stewart County, GA · 53 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1977 here).
- San Diego County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,632 bridges
- King County, WA · avg 1977 · 1,238 bridges
- Riverside County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,117 bridges
- Shelby County, TN · avg 1977 · 1,077 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (8)
Old Blaine Trace
PoorOver: Lt Fork of Little Sandy
390 S of Jct. Ky 486, Elliott, KY
Built 1950 Load: 0.1 t ADT: 65
WALKER MOORE RD
PoorOver: MIDDLE FORK
315 FT NW OF JCT. KY 719, Elliott, KY
Built 2001 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 39
Kayden LN CR 1165
PoorOver: Little FK Little Sandy
200 West of Ky 486, Elliott, KY
Built 1980 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 20
CR-1283
PoorOver: WELLS CREEK
.1 MI E OF JCT KY 650, Elliott, KY
Built 1978 Load: 4.5 t ADT: 32
KY-706
PoorOver: LAUREL BRANCH
2.7MI.S JCT. KY 7, Elliott, KY
Built 1980 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 157
KY-650
PoorOver: LITTLE SANDY RIVER
.20 MI SOU. OF JCT KY 7, Elliott, KY
Built 1972 Load: 27.0 t ADT: 276
KY-504
PoorOver: LITTLE CANEY CREEK
.05 MI NOR. OF JCT KY 649, Elliott, KY
Built 1966 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 392
KY-1208
PoorOver: LEFT FK OF MIDDLE FORK
1.6 MI SOU. OF JCT KY 719, Elliott, KY
Built 1982 Load: 99.8 t ADT: 124
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