Total bridges
183
Public highway bridges in Scott County
County profile · official public datasets
Scott County, KY
183 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 28.4% rated Good, 61.7% Fair, 9.8% Poor.
- 183
- Public bridges
- 28.4%
- Good condition
- 9.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Scott County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- 94th
- of 120 on Poor share
- 9.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 183
- public highway bridges
- 1985
- 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.
Scott County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Scott County ranks #94 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.8%). Scott County, Kentucky contains 183 public highway bridges. Roughly 28.4% are rated “Good,” 61.7% “Fair,” and 9.8% “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.
Good condition
28.4%
52 of 183 rated 7-9
Fair condition
61.7%
113 of 183 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.8%
18 of 183 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#94 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 183 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 28.4% (52)
Fair 61.7% (113)
Poor 9.8% (18)
Scott County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,188 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 955 crossings a day against 4,117 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 183 of 183 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
25.7% of Scott County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
47 of the 183 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 28.4% 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 55% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
KY-620 over NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM, built 1987, carries 9,461 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 18-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 17,188 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Scott County's bridges were built
183 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1930s 5
1930–1939
5 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 9
1950–1959
9 bridges
- 1960s 17
1960–1969
17 bridges
- 1970s 14
1970–1979
14 bridges
- 1980s 25
1980–1989
25 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
71 bridges
- 2000s 27
2000–2009
27 bridges
- 2010s 8
2010–2019
8 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 71 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 38.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1985, 7 years newer than the Kentucky average of 1978.
How Scott County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Scott County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.8% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1985 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 5 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carter County | 189 | 21.2% | 72.5% | 6.3% | 1974 |
| Henderson County | 184 | 8.2% | 87% | 4.9% | 1978 |
| Scott County (this page) | 183 | 28.4% | 61.7% | 9.8% | 1985 |
| Pulaski County | 182 | 19.8% | 74.7% | 5.5% | 1980 |
| Letcher County | 179 | 36.3% | 52.5% | 11.2% | 1981 |
| Perry County | 176 | 42% | 53.4% | 4.5% | 1987 |
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 Scott 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 Scott County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (183 bridges here).
- St. Clair County, AL · 183 bridges
- Richmond County, GA · 183 bridges
- Marshall County, IN · 183 bridges
- Appanoose County, IA · 183 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1985 here).
- Hillsborough County, FL · avg 1985 · 840 bridges
- Lancaster County, NE · avg 1985 · 661 bridges
- Nueces County, TX · avg 1985 · 528 bridges
- Grayson County, TX · avg 1985 · 513 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (18)
GALLOWAY RD
PoorOver: NORTH ELKHORN CREEK
1.1 MI S OF JCT KY 227, Scott, KY
Built 1910 Load: 0.1 t ADT: 225
BRIDGE ST
PoorOver: NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM
250 FT E OF MARTIN KING, Scott, KY
Built 1930 Load: 0.1 t ADT: 200
HINTON RD
PoorOver: NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM
.5 MI S OF S RAYS FORK, Scott, KY
Built 1930 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 66
KY-32
PoorOver: LYTLES FORK
6.5 MI E of KY 1688, Scott, KY
Built 1969 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 73
LEMONS MILL RD
PoorOver: NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM
.5 MI E-BROADWAY-US 25, Scott, KY
Built 1971 Load: 10.8 t ADT: 1,664
KY-1636
PoorOver: FK OF LITTLE INDIAN BR
100 SOU OF JCT KY 32, Scott, KY
Built 1956 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 99
LEESBURG PIKE
PoorOver: CHERRY RUN
.25 MI N JCT US 460, Scott, KY
Built 1994 Load: 22.3 t ADT: 1,379
KY-922
PoorOver: MUDDY FORD CREEK
2.0 MI S OF JCT KY 620, Scott, KY
Built 1970 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 170
KY-620
PoorOver: EAGLE CREEK
.90 MI W. OF JCT KY 922, Scott, KY
Built 1970 Load: 23.9 t ADT: 193
KY-608
PoorOver: RAYS FORK
1.2 MI E OF OWEN CO.LN., Scott, KY
Built 1983 Load: 24.2 t ADT: 85
KY-32
PoorOver: LITTLE EAGLE CREEK
.40 MI WEST OF I-75 NTRCH, Scott, KY
Built 1970 Load: 26.6 t ADT: 585
KY-32
PoorOver: LYTLE FORK
5.25 MI E OF JCT KY1688, Scott, KY
Built 1970 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 337
KY-620
PoorOver: LITTLE EAGLE CREEK
.9 MI E OF JCT KY 1636, Scott, KY
Built 1973 Load: 29.3 t ADT: 204
NEW OXFORD RD
PoorOver: MILLER RUN
.1 MI E OF JCT KY 922, Scott, KY
Built 1965 Load: 30.3 t ADT: 102
DELEPLAIN RD
PoorOver: LANES RUN
1 MI.W JCT. US 62, Scott, KY
Built 1993 Load: 35.1 t ADT: 1,751
KY-922
PoorOver: WEST FORK EAGLE CREEK
.8 MI. S. JCT KY 620, Scott, KY
Built 1994 Load: 36.5 t ADT: 170
KY-620
PoorOver: NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM
.4 MI FROM JCT I-75, Scott, KY
Built 1987 Load: 39.1 t ADT: 9,461
STONE RD
PoorOver: BOYD RUN
300 SOUTH US 460, Scott, KY
Built 1990 Load: 42.2 t ADT: 424
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