Total bridges
54
Public highway bridges in Larue County
County profile · official public datasets
Larue County, KY
54 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 55.6% rated Good, 37% Fair, 7.4% Poor.
- 54
- Public bridges
- 55.6%
- Good condition
- 7.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Larue County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- 62nd
- of 120 on Poor share
- 7.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 54
- 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.
Larue County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Larue County ranks #62 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.4%). Larue County, Kentucky contains 54 public highway bridges. Roughly 55.6% are rated “Good,” 37% “Fair,” and 7.4% “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.
Good condition
55.6%
30 of 54 rated 7-9
Fair condition
37%
20 of 54 rated 5-6
Poor condition
7.4%
4 of 54 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#62 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 54 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 55.6% (30)
Fair 37% (20)
Poor 7.4% (4)
Larue County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,731 vehicle crossings a day
That is 9.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,183 crossings a day against 1,563 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 54 of 54 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
33.3% of Larue County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
18 of the 54 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 55.6% 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 86.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
KY-210 over NORTH FORK NOLIN RIVER, built 1926, carries 7,532 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 8,731 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Larue County's bridges were built
54 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1940s 5
1940–1949
5 bridges
- 1950s 6
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s 3
1960–1969
3 bridges
- 1970s 2
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
9 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
16 bridges
- 2000s 3
2000–2009
3 bridges
- 2010s 6
2010–2019
6 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 16 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Larue County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Larue County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.4% Poor share is the 4th-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.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estill County | 56 | 37.5% | 51.8% | 10.7% | 1977 |
| Gallatin County | 55 | 21.8% | 74.5% | 3.6% | 1971 |
| Owsley County | 55 | 38.2% | 58.2% | 3.6% | 1982 |
| Owen County | 54 | 18.5% | 77.8% | 3.7% | 1975 |
| Larue County (this page) | 54 | 55.6% | 37% | 7.4% | 1981 |
| Elliott County | 53 | 11.3% | 73.6% | 15.1% | 1977 |
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 Larue 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 Larue County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (54 bridges here).
- Rio Blanco County, CO · 54 bridges
- Brantley County, GA · 54 bridges
- Jones County, GA · 54 bridges
- Crawford County, MI · 54 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.
Fair-condition bridges (20)
GOODIN WILLIAMS RO
FairOver: TRIB-CASTLEMAN CREEK
1.7 MI NE JCT KY 1607, Larue, KY
Built 1999 Load: 18.7 t ADT: 59
KY-583
FairOver: MURPHY CREEK
.65 MI WEST OF JCT KY 52, Larue, KY
Built 1949 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 891
KY-84
FairOver: BARREN RUN CREEK
.7 MI E OF JCT KY 1517, Larue, KY
Built 1953 Load: 24.6 t ADT: 1,212
Hall Gaddie Rd.
FairOver: South Fork Nolin River
1.3 MI e OF JCT US 31E, Larue, KY
Built 2017 Load: 31.9 t ADT: 75
KY-2217
FairOver: CASTLEMAN CREEK
.14 MI. E JCT KY 61, Larue, KY
Built 1997 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 385
PEAKE ROAD
FairOver: THOMPSON CREEK
.8 MI NW JCT US 31E, Larue, KY
Built 1991 Load: 37.7 t ADT: 40
CHARLIE RAGLAND RO
FairOver: DYE BRANCH CREEK
.5 MI WEST-US 31E, Larue, KY
Built 1993 Load: 38.3 t ADT: 153
KY-2217
FairOver: SALEM CREEK
1.80 MILES SW OF KY 1832, Larue, KY
Built 2004 Load: 38.6 t ADT: 385
US-31E
FairOver: BR OF NORTH FORK NOLIN
1 MI E OF JCT KY 1832, Larue, KY
Built 1926 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 2,628
KY-1079
FairOver: BACON CREEK
.80 MI EAST OF JCT KY 357, Larue, KY
Built 1951 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 502
KY-61
FairOver: MIDDLE CREEK
@ HARDIN -LARUE CO. LINE, Larue, KY
Built 1984 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 5,903
KY-84
FairOver: BRANCH HOWARDSCREEK
.70 MI WEST OF NELSON CL, Larue, KY
Built 1940 Load: 46.4 t ADT: 809
LINCOLN PARKWAY
FairOver: NORTH FORK NOLIN RIVER
.24 MI. JCT KY 3204, Larue, KY
Built 1985 Load: 46.4 t ADT: 5,903
US-31E
FairOver: WALTERS CREEK
2.0 MI NOR. OF JCT KY 470, Larue, KY
Built 1958 Load: 51.0 t ADT: 2,647
US-31E
FairOver: NORTH FORK NOLIN RIVER
.3 MI.W OF JCT KY 1832, Larue, KY
Built 1989 Load: 52.0 t ADT: 2,808
US-31E
FairOver: SOUTH FORK NOLIN RIVER
1.5 MI S OF S-JCT KY 61, Larue, KY
Built 1958 Load: 52.1 t ADT: 2,647
KY-222
FairOver: NORTH FORK NOLIN RIVER
1.8 MI WEST OF JCT KY 84, Larue, KY
Built 1968 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 76
KY-84
FairOver: SOUTH FORK OF NOLIN RIVE
.05 MI N.E. OF JCT KY 357, Larue, KY
Built 1976 Load: 62.5 t ADT: 2,551
KY-61
FairOver: SOUTH FORK BRANCH
.50 MI N.W. OF JCT KY 584, Larue, KY
Built 1926 Load: 65.8 t ADT: 3,062
US-31E
FairOver: FORK OF KNOB CREEK
1 MI N JCT KY 470, Larue, KY
Built 1991 Load: 73.1 t ADT: 2,105
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