Total bridges
200
Public highway bridges in Fayette County
County profile · official public datasets
Fayette County, KY
200 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 22.5% rated Good, 70% Fair, 7.5% Poor.
- 200
- Public bridges
- 22.5%
- Good condition
- 7.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Fayette County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 63rd
- of 120 on Poor share
- 7.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 200
- 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.
Fayette County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fayette County ranks #63 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.5%). Fayette County, Kentucky contains 200 public highway bridges. Roughly 22.5% are rated “Good,” 70% “Fair,” and 7.5% “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
22.5%
45 of 200 rated 7-9
Fair condition
70%
140 of 200 rated 5-6
Poor condition
7.5%
15 of 200 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#63 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 200 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 22.5% (45)
Fair 70% (140)
Poor 7.5% (15)
Fayette County's Poor-condition bridges carry 184,531 vehicle crossings a day
That is 4.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 12,302 crossings a day against 15,185 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 200 of 200 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
46% of Fayette County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
92 of the 200 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 22.5% 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 48.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
S 75 NC over I 64, built 1964, carries 90,324 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 15-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 184,531 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Fayette County's bridges were built
200 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 4
1930–1939
4 bridges
- 1940s 4
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s 15
1950–1959
15 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
56 bridges
- 1970s 20
1970–1979
20 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
28 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
28 bridges
- 2000s 17
2000–2009
17 bridges
- 2010s 21
2010–2019
21 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 56 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Fayette County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Fayette County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.5% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calloway County | 210 | 26.7% | 62.4% | 11% | 1978 |
| Marshall County | 208 | 40.4% | 54.8% | 4.8% | 1976 |
| Bell County | 205 | 15.6% | 76.1% | 8.3% | 1977 |
| McCracken County | 201 | 43.3% | 50.7% | 6% | 1979 |
| Fayette County (this page) | 200 | 22.5% | 70% | 7.5% | 1980 |
| Carter County | 189 | 21.2% | 72.5% | 6.3% | 1974 |
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 Fayette 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 Fayette County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (200 bridges here).
- Escambia County, AL · 200 bridges
- Clay County, AR · 200 bridges
- Parke County, IN · 200 bridges
- Eaton County, MI · 200 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.
Poor-condition bridges (15)
KY-2335
PoorOver: BRANCH OF ELKHORN CR.
.3 MI NORTH JCT 57 @ AVON, Fayette, KY
Built 1985 Load: 0.1 t ADT: 1,085
ELKCHESTER RD
PoorOver: SOUTH ELKHORN CREEK
.7 MI W OF JCT KY 1969, Fayette, KY
Built 1970 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 119
CENTRE PARKWAY
PoorOver: W. HICKMAN CREEK
100 S of Greentree Rd, Fayette, KY
Built 1965 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 5,153
BOSWORTH LANE
PoorOver: SOUTH ELKHORN CREEK
1.3 MI W. JCT.KY 1969, Fayette, KY
Built 1940 Load: 16.6 t ADT: 174
ENTERPRISE DRIVE
PoorOver: WOLF RUN
.2 MI SOU - KY 1681, Fayette, KY
Built 1992 Load: 18.3 t ADT: 606
BUENA VISTA RD
PoorOver: BR-NORTH ELKHORN
500FT WEST OF ELKHORN RD, Fayette, KY
Built 1992 Load: 22.2 t ADT: 1,212
RICHMOND ROAD
PoorOver: I-75
.1 MI W OF JCT KY 1973, Fayette, KY
Built 1963 Load: 25.5 t ADT: 4,274
S 75 NC
PoorOver: I 64
SBL I75 @NW NTRCHNG-I64, Fayette, KY
Built 1964 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 90,324
DELONG RD
PoorOver: EAST HICKMAN CREEK
.6 MI W OF ARMSTRONG MILL, Fayette, KY
Built 1950 Load: 30.4 t ADT: 1,326
ARMSTRONG MILL ROA
PoorOver: BR OF W.HICKMAN CREEK
.2MI E-TATES CR RD-KY1974, Fayette, KY
Built 1970 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 8,760
ARMSTRONG MILL ROA
PoorOver: W. HICKMAN CREEK
.25MI E-TATES CR RD-K1974, Fayette, KY
Built 1970 Load: 33.8 t ADT: 8,760
US-25
PoorOver: I-75
1.2 MI S OF JCT KY 1973, Fayette, KY
Built 1963 Load: 34.1 t ADT: 23,592
SB 75 NON-CARDINAL
PoorOver: RELOCATED KEARNEY ROAD
SBL .25MI N-NW I64 NTRCH, Fayette, KY
Built 1963 Load: 39.6 t ADT: 30,879
SEVENTH STREET
PoorOver: CSX RAILROAD
.1 MI N OF US 60, Fayette, KY
Built 1977 Load: 49.0 t ADT: 4,146
OLD HIGBEE MILL RO
PoorOver: BR-SO.ELKHORN CREEK
0.6 MI E JCT US 68, Fayette, KY
Built 1991 Load: 69.9 t ADT: 4,121
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