Total bridges
136
Public highway bridges in Lincoln County
County profile · official public datasets
Lincoln County, KY
136 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 13.2% rated Good, 83.8% Fair, 2.9% Poor.
- 136
- Public bridges
- 13.2%
- Good condition
- 2.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lincoln County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 11%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 136
- 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.
Lincoln County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lincoln County ranks #13 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.9%). Lincoln County, Kentucky contains 136 public highway bridges. Roughly 13.2% are rated “Good,” 83.8% “Fair,” and 2.9% “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
13.2%
18 of 136 rated 7-9
Fair condition
83.8%
114 of 136 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.9%
4 of 136 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#13 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 136 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 13.2% (18)
Fair 83.8% (114)
Poor 2.9% (4)
Lincoln County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,165 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 541 crossings a day against 2,198 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 136 of 136 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
40.4% of Lincoln County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
55 of the 136 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 13.2% 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 62.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
KY-78 over NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM, built 1963, carries 1,360 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 2,165 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Lincoln County's bridges were built
136 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 6
1920–1929
6 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
15 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
18 bridges
- 1960s 8
1960–1969
8 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
16 bridges
- 1980s 10
1980–1989
10 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
36 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
18 bridges
- 2010s 5
2010–2019
5 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 36 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.5% 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 Lincoln County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Lincoln County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.9% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boone County | 138 | 40.6% | 55.1% | 4.3% | 1981 |
| Shelby County | 137 | 10.2% | 81.8% | 8% | 1982 |
| Lincoln County (this page) | 136 | 13.2% | 83.8% | 2.9% | 1976 |
| Logan County | 135 | 17.8% | 78.5% | 3.7% | 1978 |
| Knott County | 134 | 35.8% | 51.5% | 12.7% | 1981 |
| Laurel County | 131 | 22.1% | 73.3% | 4.6% | 1976 |
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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (136 bridges here).
- Bullock County, AL · 136 bridges
- Jackson County, AR · 136 bridges
- Perry County, IL · 136 bridges
- Morehouse County, LA · 136 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.
All bridges (136)
KY-698
FairOver: MCKINNEY CREEK
1.1 MI NE OF JCT KY 1778, Lincoln, KY
Built 2021 Load: 59.3 t ADT: 1,094
US-127
FairOver: KNOB LICK CREEK
0.3 MI SO BOYLE CO LN, Lincoln, KY
Built 1993 Load: 61.4 t ADT: 9,982
KY-1781
FairOver: BUCK CREEK
.6 MI W OF JCT KY 1948, Lincoln, KY
Built 1966 Load: 61.7 t ADT: 397
O K SCHULLER RD
FairOver: BUCKEYE CREEK
1.22 MI N JCT KY 1781, Lincoln, KY
Built 2001 Load: 61.9 t ADT: 36
KY-78
FairOver: PEYTON CREEK
.05 MI W. JCT KY 198, Lincoln, KY
Built 1990 Load: 64.6 t ADT: 1,360
US-150
FairOver: SLOUGH OF HANGING FRK
2.1 MI S.E. OF BOYLE CL, Lincoln, KY
Built 1959 Load: 67.6 t ADT: 12,003
VIC GREER RD
FairOver: BUCK CREEK
1 MI N KY 1781, Lincoln, KY
Built 1979 Load: 69.5 t ADT: 86
KY-78
FairOver: LOGANS CREEK
.65 MI. E. JCT US 27, Lincoln, KY
Built 1999 Load: 72.0 t ADT: 1,383
NORTH FISHING CREE
FairOver: FISHING CREEK
1.3 MI S OF JCT KY 501, Lincoln, KY
Built 1986 Load: 75.9 t ADT: 45
ALLEN RD
FairOver: GILMORE CREEK
.5 MI-E. JCT KY 1948, Lincoln, KY
Built 1995 Load: 76.7 t ADT: 36
US-150
FairOver: RANKINS CREEK
.95 MI S.E. OF BOYLE CL, Lincoln, KY
Built 1959 Load: 77.0 t ADT: 12,003
N Old Ottenheim RD
FairOver: Branch of Neals Creek
E at JCT KY-1247, Lincoln, KY
Built 1930 Load: 83.6 t ADT: 256
BROCK RD
FairOver: GLADE FORK CREEK
1.2 MI- S JCT KY 3244, Lincoln, KY
Built 1994 Load: 92.5 t ADT: 36
US-127
FairOver: BR.OF HARRIS CREEK
.75 MI N. of KY 1194, Lincoln, KY
Built 1993 Load: 99.8 t ADT: 9,808
Connect to US-127
GoodOver: UNNAMED STREAM &ACCESS R
.30 MI N.E. OF CASEY CL, Lincoln, KY
Built 1970 Load: 30.7 t ADT: 4,463
SIMS BRANCH RD
GoodOver: SIMS BRANCH
.2 MI E. CASEY CO LINE, Lincoln, KY
Built 1991 Load: 33.9 t ADT: 27
US-127
GoodOver: HANGING FORK @ HOUSTONVI
200 S - KY78, Lincoln, KY
Built 1993 Load: 35.7 t ADT: 4,623
SIMS BRANCH RD
GoodOver: SIMS BRANCH
1 MI E JCT CR 5245, Lincoln, KY
Built 1991 Load: 39.2 t ADT: 27
KY-1194
GoodOver: BLUE LICK CREEK
2.0 MI N.W. OF JCT KY 78, Lincoln, KY
Built 1952 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 798
KY 78
GoodOver: MCCORMICKS BR.
.20 MI. E. OF JCT KY 198, Lincoln, KY
Built 2006 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,909
Preachersville RD
GoodOver: DIX RIVER
2.8 MI. E. OF JCT US 150, Lincoln, KY
Built 2005 Load: 43.2 t ADT: 249
US 150
GoodOver: Turkey Creek
0.2 M. W. Rockcastle Co., Lincoln, KY
Built 2009 Load: 45.6 t ADT: 4,006
KY-1247
GoodOver: St. Asaph Creek
.1 MI S-W Main-Stanford, Lincoln, KY
Built 2020 Load: 49.2 t ADT: 2,787
US 150
GoodOver: Flax Creek
0.15 M E. of JCT. KY 39, Lincoln, KY
Built 2010 Load: 50.5 t ADT: 4,006
BERRY HOLLOW RD
GoodOver: NEALS CREEK
0.5 MI. S OF KY 698, Lincoln, KY
Built 1988 Load: 51.1 t ADT: 166
Goshen Road
GoodOver: Logan Creek
.9 MI N of JCT US 150, Lincoln, KY
Built 2019 Load: 52.5 t ADT: 283
US-150
GoodOver: LOGAN BRANCH
.7 MI.E JCT US 27, Lincoln, KY
Built 1993 Load: 54.2 t ADT: 6,308
KY-300
GoodOver: BR. OF HARRIS CREEK
.3 MI. SE. OF BOYLE CO LN, Lincoln, KY
Built 1997 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 744
KY-1770
GoodOver: BOONE CREEK
3.5 MI S OF NW-JCT US 150, Lincoln, KY
Built 1987 Load: 64.0 t ADT: 263
KY-1770
GoodOver: Branch of Cedar Creek
1.41MI W JCT KY 643, Lincoln, KY
Built 2002 Load: 64.7 t ADT: 232
KY-78
GoodOver: Pevyhouse Branch
.30 Mi West of Jct KY-300, Lincoln, KY
Built 2015 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 2,789
US-150
GoodOver: TRIBUTARY OF DIX RIVER
8.3 MI EAST OF US 27, Lincoln, KY
Built 2003 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 5,892
KY-1770
PoorOver: WALNUT FLAT CREEK
2.9 MI S OF NW-JCT US 150, Lincoln, KY
Built 1970 Load: 13.2 t ADT: 263
CUT OFF PIKE
PoorOver: LOGAN CREEK
1.0 MI. E. OF US 27, Lincoln, KY
Built 1981 Load: 19.5 t ADT: 126
Liberty Road
PoorOver: HANGING FORK @HUSTONVILL
.20 MI SOU. OF JCT KY 78, Lincoln, KY
Built 1927 Load: 27.0 t ADT: 416
KY-78
PoorOver: NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM
2.0 MI EAST OF JCT US 127, Lincoln, KY
Built 1963 Load: 31.9 t ADT: 1,360
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