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Taylor County, KY

92 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 55.4% rated Good, 42.4% Fair, 2.2% Poor.

92
Public bridges
55.4%
Good condition
2.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Taylor County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 5%
lowest Poor share in state
2.2%
Poor-condition share
92
public highway bridges
1984
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.

Taylor County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Taylor County ranks #6 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.2%). Taylor County, Kentucky contains 92 public highway bridges. Roughly 55.4% are rated “Good,” 42.4% “Fair,” and 2.2% “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

92

Public highway bridges in Taylor County

Good condition

55.4%

51 of 92 rated 7-9

Fair condition

42.4%

39 of 92 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.2%

2 of 92 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#6 of 120

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

Condition distribution

Share of 92 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
55.4% (51)
Fair
42.4% (39)
Poor
2.2% (2)

Taylor County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,483 vehicle crossings a day

That is 5.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,242 crossings a day against 1,386 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 92 of 92 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

34.8% of Taylor County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

32 of the 92 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 55.4% 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 98.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SOUTH COLUMBIA AVE over BUCKHORN CREEK, built 1946, carries 8,349 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 8,483 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Taylor County's bridges were built

92 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1984, 6 years newer than the Kentucky average of 1978.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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

The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Taylor County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.2% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 9 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Taylor County and the 5 Kentucky counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Fulton County 95 11.6%
Henry County 94 12.8%
Pendleton County 94 4.3%
Cumberland County 93 5.4%
Taylor County (this page) 92 2.2%
Breckinridge County 91 7.7%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside KY (92 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1984 here).

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

All 92 Good 51 Fair 39 Poor 2

Fair-condition bridges (39)

DURHAM ST

Fair

Over: BUCKHORN CREEK

.15 MI SE-BROADWAY-US 68, Taylor, KY

Built 1958 Load: 12.8 t ADT: 118

KY-1798

Fair

Over: ROBINSON CREEK

.40 MI SOU. OF JCT KY 70, Taylor, KY

Built 1969 Load: 17.0 t ADT: 669

KY-337

Fair

Over: TALLOW CREEK

1.8 MI SW OF MARION CL, Taylor, KY

Built 1933 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 404

KY-527

Fair

Over: WILLOWTOWN CREEK

1 MI N OF JCT KY 1252, Taylor, KY

Built 1950 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 442

KY-659

Fair

Over: BR OF ROBINSON CREEK

1.4 MI N.E. OF JCT KY 70, Taylor, KY

Built 1950 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 80

KY-1400

Fair

Over: OWL CREEK

.45 MI NE OF JCT KY 289, Taylor, KY

Built 1953 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 410

KY-323

Fair

Over: MIDDLE PITMAN CREEK

.55 MI N.W. OF JCT KY 883, Taylor, KY

Built 1953 Load: 20.4 t ADT: 531

US-68

Fair

Over: BUCKHORN CREEK

.10 MI WEST OF JCT KY 323, Taylor, KY

Built 1964 Load: 23.9 t ADT: 17,224

KY-289

Fair

Over: OWL CREEK

.2 MI N OF JCT KY 1400, Taylor, KY

Built 1952 Load: 33.1 t ADT: 1,683

KY-289

Fair

Over: BIG PITMAN CRK

1.1 MI SW OF MARION CL, Taylor, KY

Built 1952 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 1,111

WEST MAIN STREET

Fair

Over: KY 55

.8 MI E OF JCT US 68, Taylor, KY

Built 1978 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 4,242

OLD SUMMERSVILLE R

Fair

Over: LITTLE PITMAN CREEK

.30 MI NOR. OF JCT KY 883, Taylor, KY

Built 1962 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 272

KY-289

Fair

Over: MIDDLE PITMAN CREEK

.8 MI N OF JCT KY 1400, Taylor, KY

Built 1952 Load: 36.1 t ADT: 1,683

KY-527

Fair

Over: MIDDLE PITMAN CREEK

.9 MI N OF JCT KY 3211, Taylor, KY

Built 1935 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 736

KY-323

Fair

Over: LITTLE PITMAN CREEK

1.0 MI N.W. OF JCT US 68, Taylor, KY

Built 1973 Load: 37.5 t ADT: 402

KY-337

Fair

Over: BLACK LICK CREEK

1.6 MI N.E. OF JCT KY 744, Taylor, KY

Built 1979 Load: 39.1 t ADT: 701

KY-289

Fair

Over: LITTLE PITMAN CREEK

.45 MI N OF JCT KY 3145, Taylor, KY

Built 1952 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 4,464

KY-3098

Fair

Over: MEADOW CREEK

.2 MI W OF JCT KY 3183, Taylor, KY

Built 1950 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 980

KY-1252

Fair

Over: WILLOWTOWN CREEK

.55 MI WEST OF JCT KY 527, Taylor, KY

Built 1950 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 139

KY-634

Fair

Over: BIG PITMAN CREEK

.50 MI NOR. OF JCT KY 744, Taylor, KY

Built 1957 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 176

KY-210

Fair

Over: LITTLE PITMAN CREEK

.3 MI NW OF CAMPBELLSVL, Taylor, KY

Built 1986 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 11,159

KY-289

Fair

Over: TRACE FK-CTY RSVR OUTLET

.2 MI N-SHAWNEE DR-KY2219, Taylor, KY

Built 1988 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 8,717

OLD GREENSBURG RD

Fair

Over: BUCKHORN CREEK

.75 MI NW-JCT US68-KY 70, Taylor, KY

Built 1986 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 132

KY-210

Fair

Over: BIG PITMAN CREEK

1 MI SE OF JCT KY 2220, Taylor, KY

Built 1987 Load: 40.6 t ADT: 5,396

KY-210

Fair

Over: FALLING TIMBER BRANCH

6.1 MI NW OF NW CL C-VLE, Taylor, KY

Built 1987 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,396

POPULAR GROVE RD

Fair

Over: POPLAR GROVE BRANCH

1.0 MI N.E. OF GREEN CL, Taylor, KY

Built 1952 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 67

KY-1834

Fair

Over: LONG BRANCH CREEK

1 MI NE-JCT US 68-KY 55, Taylor, KY

Built 1959 Load: 41.0 t ADT: 316

KY-527

Fair

Over: BIG PITMAN CREEK

1 MI N OF JCT KY 744, Taylor, KY

Built 1956 Load: 41.2 t ADT: 851

MERRIMAC RD

Fair

Over: ROBINSON CREEK

2.3 MI E JCT KY 337, Taylor, KY

Built 1991 Load: 43.9 t ADT: 282

WILSON CREEK RD

Fair

Over: WILSON CREEK

1 MILE E JCT KY 76, Taylor, KY

Built 2004 Load: 44.9 t ADT: 43

KY-76

Fair

Over: WILSON CREEK

3 MI S OF JCT KY 1752, Taylor, KY

Built 1969 Load: 45.7 t ADT: 840

DAVIS RD

Fair

Over: MEADOW CREEK

1.0 MI S. JCT US 68, Taylor, KY

Built 2001 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 144

J MOSS RD

Fair

Over: PITMAN CREEK

.9 MI SW JCT KY 210, Taylor, KY

Built 1998 Load: 52.1 t ADT: 128

KY 3211

Fair

Over: Tributary of Trace Fork

1.0 MI N of Jct US 68, Taylor, KY

Built 2014 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 369

Merrimac Rd.

Fair

Over: Robinson Creek

2.4 Mi E of KY 337, Taylor, KY

Built 2010 Load: 62.0 t ADT: 178

KY-527

Fair

Over: LITTLE PITMAN CREEK

1.7 MI NOR OF JCT US 68, Taylor, KY

Built 1986 Load: 64.2 t ADT: 2,335

KY-527

Fair

Over: FLAT RUN CREEK

0.5 MI SE OF JCT. KY 744, Taylor, KY

Built 2003 Load: 75.2 t ADT: 736

NOE RD

Fair

Over: FLAT RUN

0.5 MI NE OF KY 210, Taylor, KY

Built 1977 Load: 90.7 t ADT: 201

KY-55

Fair

Over: PINCH CREEK

2.5 MI NOR. OF JCT KY 565, Taylor, KY

Built 1960 Load: 99.8 t ADT: 7,250

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