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Livingston County, KY

104 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 30.8% rated Good, 64.4% Fair, 4.8% Poor.

104
Public bridges: 30.8%
Good condition: 4.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Livingston County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 30%
lowest Poor share in state: 4.8%
Poor-condition share: 104
public highway bridges: 1974
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.

Livingston County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Livingston County ranks #36 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.8%). Livingston County, Kentucky contains 104 public highway bridges. Roughly 30.8% are rated “Good,” 64.4% “Fair,” and 4.8% “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.

Total bridges

104

Public highway bridges in Livingston County

Good condition

30.8%

32 of 104 rated 7-9

Fair condition

64.4%

67 of 104 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.8%

5 of 104 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#36 of 120

Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 104 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

30.8% (32)

Fair

64.4% (67)

Poor

4.8% (5)

Livingston County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,090 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 218 crossings a day against 1,834 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 104 of 104 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

49% of Livingston County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

51 of the 104 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 30.8% 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 61.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

KY-133 over FOREMAN CREEK, built 1931, carries 670 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,090 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

3
1930s

12
1940s

5
1950s

10
1960s

16
1970s

14
1980s

7
1990s

20
2000s

8
2010s

8
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 20 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1974) matches the Kentucky average (1978).

How Livingston County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Livingston County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.8% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1983 is 9 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Livingston County and the 5 Kentucky counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Trigg County	109	39.4%	51.4%	9.2%	1980
Magoffin County	107	43.9%	53.3%	2.8%	1986
Warren County	106	18.9%	77.4%	3.8%	1984
Washington County	104	52.9%	35.6%	11.5%	1982
Livingston County (this page)	104	30.8%	64.4%	4.8%	1974
Lawrence County	103	19.4%	72.8%	7.8%	1983

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 Livingston 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 Livingston County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KY (104 bridges here).

Nassau County, FL · 104 bridges
Brooks County, GA · 104 bridges
Grady County, GA · 104 bridges
Bonner County, ID · 104 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1974 here).

Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 104 Good 32 Fair 67 Poor 5

Good-condition bridges (32)

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Livingston County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Livingston County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,090 vehicle crossings a day

49% of Livingston County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 61.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Livingston County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Good-condition bridges (32)

KY-838

KLONDIKE MINE RD

VANHOOSER RD

KY-137

KY-453

US-60

DULEY RD

KY-453

KY-0135

LINLEY RD

HODGE RD

US 60

VAUGHN RD

BARKLEY DR

KY 453_

KY-70

KY-453

US-60

PH Access RD

_KY-866

KY-70

SCOTTS CHAPEL

KY-70

J H OBRYAN AVE

US-60

DULEY RD

KY-137

DANIEL CEMETERY RD

U.S. 62

I-24

SMITHLAND DAM RD.

_KY-937

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