Total bridges
117
Public highway bridges in Fleming County
County profile · official public datasets
Fleming County, KY
117 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 32.5% rated Good, 62.4% Fair, 5.1% Poor.
- 117
- Public bridges
- 32.5%
- Good condition
- 5.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Fleming County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 33%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 5.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 117
- 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.
Fleming County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fleming County ranks #39 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.1%). Fleming County, Kentucky contains 117 public highway bridges. Roughly 32.5% are rated “Good,” 62.4% “Fair,” and 5.1% “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
32.5%
38 of 117 rated 7-9
Fair condition
62.4%
73 of 117 rated 5-6
Poor condition
5.1%
6 of 117 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#39 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 117 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 32.5% (38)
Fair 62.4% (73)
Poor 5.1% (6)
Fleming County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,188 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 198 crossings a day against 706 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 117 of 117 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
46.2% of Fleming County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
54 of the 117 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 32.5% 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 35.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
KY-697 over ALLISON CREEK, built 1982, carries 423 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 1,188 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Fleming County's bridges were built
117 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1920s 5
1920–1929
5 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
12 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
18 bridges
- 1960s 10
1960–1969
10 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
12 bridges
- 1980s 7
1980–1989
7 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
26 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
12 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
11 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 26 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.2% 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 Fleming County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Fleming County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.1% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grayson County | 119 | 39.5% | 54.6% | 5.9% | 1972 |
| Clark County | 117 | 27.4% | 60.7% | 12% | 1976 |
| Franklin County | 117 | 13.7% | 75.2% | 11.1% | 1980 |
| Fleming County (this page) | 117 | 32.5% | 62.4% | 5.1% | 1976 |
| Caldwell County | 116 | 12.1% | 81% | 6.9% | 1972 |
| Morgan County | 114 | 50.9% | 46.5% | 2.6% | 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 Fleming 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 Fleming County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (117 bridges here).
- Franklin County, GA · 117 bridges
- Polk County, GA · 117 bridges
- Benton County, MN · 117 bridges
- Lake County, MT · 117 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 (73)
RAWLINGS RD
FairOver: CRANE CREEK
.4 MI SW - KY 32, Fleming, KY
Built 1992 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 143
KY-170
FairOver: JOHNSON CREEK
.35 MI SOU. OF JCT KY 161, Fleming, KY
Built 1934 Load: 41.0 t ADT: 466
KY 11
FairOver: FLEMING CREEK
1.8 mi N. of jct. ky 156, Fleming, KY
Built 2007 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 2,965
BRANCH BROTHERS RD
FairOver: FLEMING CREEK
0.2 MI. E. OF KY 57, Fleming, KY
Built 1979 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 38
KY-11
FairOver: LICKING RIVER
ON BATH - FLEMING CL, Fleming, KY
Built 1977 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 2,866
KY-111
FairOver: Allison Creek
1.2 MI NOR. OF JCT KY 156, Fleming, KY
Built 2019 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 1,428
KY-2508
FairOver: TOWN BRANCH
BTWN JCTS KY559 + KY11BUS, Fleming, KY
Built 1964 Load: 43.1 t ADT: 228
KY-1013
FairOver: FOX CREEK
3.3 MI N.E. OF JCT KY 32, Fleming, KY
Built 1955 Load: 43.3 t ADT: 822
KY 111
FairOver: LOCUST CREEK
1.19 m n of ky158, Fleming, KY
Built 2007 Load: 43.8 t ADT: 1,165
KY-3302
FairOver: SUGAR TREE BRANCH
1.7 MI E.of JCT KY 1013, Fleming, KY
Built 2011 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 173
KY-57
FairOver: SLEEPY RUN CREEK
1.8 MI.NE JCT KY 11(BUS., Fleming, KY
Built 1997 Load: 45.7 t ADT: 3,398
Ryan Rd. CR-1015
FairOver: Fox Run Creek
End of KY 3302, Fleming, KY
Built 2009 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 58
KY-344
FairOver: TROTTERS CREEK
.55 MI EAST OF JCT KY 57, Fleming, KY
Built 1934 Load: 48.4 t ADT: 1,027
KY-158
FairOver: FOX CREEK
.1 MI N OF JCT KY 1895, Fleming, KY
Built 1968 Load: 49.2 t ADT: 884
US-68
FairOver: JOHNSON CREEK
.35 MI S.W. OF MASON CL, Fleming, KY
Built 1972 Load: 49.4 t ADT: 3,049
TAYLOR MILL RD
FairOver: MILL CREEK
.6 MI S OF MASON CO.LN., Fleming, KY
Built 1979 Load: 51.3 t ADT: 154
CRAINTOWN RD
FairOver: TRIB OF CRAINTOWN BRANCH
.05 MI NW OF JCT KY 57, Fleming, KY
Built 1965 Load: 52.3 t ADT: 185
Treatment CS1066
FairOver: Town Branch
242 South of 11X, Fleming, KY
Built 1970 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 80
KY-57
FairOver: LOGAN RUN CREEK
3.1 MI NE OF JCT KY 11BUS, Fleming, KY
Built 1983 Load: 56.8 t ADT: 2,263
KY-11
FairOver: MILL CREEK
.8 MI SOU. MASON CO LNE, Fleming, KY
Built 1988 Load: 57.0 t ADT: 6,346
KY-170
FairOver: FLEMING CREEK
1.5 MI N OF JCT KY 1347, Fleming, KY
Built 1974 Load: 65.7 t ADT: 311
KY-1325
FairOver: FLEMING CREEK
.8 MI NE OF JCT KY 170, Fleming, KY
Built 1978 Load: 66.5 t ADT: 397
KY-1336
FairOver: LOCUST CREEK
3.0 MI S.E. OF JCT KY 697, Fleming, KY
Built 1978 Load: 68.8 t ADT: 127
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