Total bridges
144
Public highway bridges in Webster County
County profile · official public datasets
Webster County, KY
144 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 9% rated Good, 80.6% Fair, 10.4% Poor.
- 144
- Public bridges
- 9%
- Good condition
- 10.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Webster County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 96th
- of 120 on Poor share
- 10.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 144
- public highway bridges
- 1969
- 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.
Webster County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Webster County ranks #96 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10.4%). Webster County, Kentucky contains 144 public highway bridges. Roughly 9% are rated “Good,” 80.6% “Fair,” and 10.4% “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
9%
13 of 144 rated 7-9
Fair condition
80.6%
116 of 144 rated 5-6
Poor condition
10.4%
15 of 144 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#96 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 144 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 9% (13)
Fair 80.6% (116)
Poor 10.4% (15)
Webster County's Poor-condition bridges carry 7,892 vehicle crossings a day
That is 6.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 526 crossings a day against 331 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 144 of 144 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
54.2% of Webster County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
78 of the 144 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 9% 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 42.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
KY-56 over BR OF MOCK ROY CREEK, built 1963, carries 3,375 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 15-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 7,892 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Webster County's bridges were built
144 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 8
1920–1929
8 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
12 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
13 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
20 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
22 bridges
- 1970s 11
1970–1979
11 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
28 bridges
- 1990s 11
1990–1999
11 bridges
- 2000s 6
2000–2009
6 bridges
- 2010s 10
2010–2019
10 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 28 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1969, 9 years older than the Kentucky average of 1978.
How Webster County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Webster County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10.4% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1969 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is 8 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis County | 149 | 28.9% | 67.1% | 4% | 1982 |
| Barren County | 147 | 12.9% | 83.7% | 3.4% | 1974 |
| Webster County (this page) | 144 | 9% | 80.6% | 10.4% | 1969 |
| Adair County | 143 | 17.5% | 74.8% | 7.7% | 1975 |
| Casey County | 143 | 14.7% | 77.6% | 7.7% | 1976 |
| Kenton County | 142 | 39.4% | 52.8% | 7.7% | 1978 |
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 Webster 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 Webster County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (144 bridges here).
- Muscatine County, IA · 144 bridges
- Anderson County, KS · 144 bridges
- Muskegon County, MI · 144 bridges
- Tishomingo County, MS · 144 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside KY (1969 here).
- Cook County, IL · avg 1969 · 1,721 bridges
- Fresno County, CA · avg 1969 · 916 bridges
- Cuyahoga County, OH · avg 1969 · 871 bridges
- Ventura County, CA · avg 1969 · 501 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (116)
JOHN ROACH ROAD
FairOver: DEER CREEK
1.5 MI SW OF JCT CR 5124, Webster, KY
Built 1980 Load: 51.3 t ADT: 41
KY-2836
FairOver: WHITESIDE CREEK
.8 MI W -JCT KY 120, Webster, KY
Built 1990 Load: 51.4 t ADT: 115
I69
FairOver: DEER CREEK
SBL 3.2 MI S OF KY 56 NTR, Webster, KY
Built 1968 Load: 51.9 t ADT: 5,583
I69
FairOver: DEER CREEK
NBL 3.2 MI S OF KY 56 NTR, Webster, KY
Built 1968 Load: 51.9 t ADT: 5,583
US-41A
FairOver: BULL CREEK
1.0 SOU. JCT. KY 270, Webster, KY
Built 1984 Load: 53.0 t ADT: 2,198
KY 132
FairOver: UNNAMED STREAM
1 MI. NE OF KY 1340, Webster, KY
Built 2008 Load: 53.3 t ADT: 993
KY-983
FairOver: LYNN FORK CREEK
.2 MI E OF JCT KY 1063, Webster, KY
Built 1977 Load: 53.4 t ADT: 401
KY-283
FairOver: GROVES CREEK
1.2 MI NOR. OF JCT KY 56, Webster, KY
Built 1979 Load: 55.5 t ADT: 281
BUD ASHER MOONEY R
FairOver: LYNN FORK
0.5 MI.S.-JCT. KY 132, Webster, KY
Built 1981 Load: 55.7 t ADT: 61
RAY MELTON ROAD
FairOver: HIGHLAND CREEK
1.6 MI. N. JCT. KY 56, Webster, KY
Built 1980 Load: 56.1 t ADT: 119
KY-132
FairOver: CRAB ORCHARD CREEK
.05 MI SW OF JCT KY 493, Webster, KY
Built 1967 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 206
Rackestraw Bottoms
FairOver: DEER CREEK
1.8 MI. S. JCT. KY. 132, Webster, KY
Built 1980 Load: 56.4 t ADT: 21
BUD ASHER MOONEY R
FairOver: CRAB ORCHARD CR.
.3 MI. S. JCT. KY 132, Webster, KY
Built 1979 Load: 56.7 t ADT: 61
KY-109
FairOver: OWENS CREEK
.10 MI. S KY 120, Webster, KY
Built 1985 Load: 58.7 t ADT: 801
CR 1009
FairOver: Branch of Knoblick Creek
2.4 mi. N. jct KY 132, Webster, KY
Built 2012 Load: 64.0 t ADT: 49
KY-132
FairOver: TRADEWATER RIVER
WEBSTER--CRITTENDEN CO., Webster, KY
Built 1982 Load: 64.9 t ADT: 175
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