Total bridges
60
Public highway bridges in Woodford County
County profile · official public datasets
Woodford County, KY
60 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 26.7% rated Good, 65% Fair, 8.3% Poor.
- 60
- Public bridges
- 26.7%
- Good condition
- 8.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Woodford County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- 79th
- of 120 on Poor share
- 8.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 60
- 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.
Woodford County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Woodford County ranks #79 of 120 Kentucky counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.3%). Woodford County, Kentucky contains 60 public highway bridges. Roughly 26.7% are rated “Good,” 65% “Fair,” and 8.3% “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
26.7%
16 of 60 rated 7-9
Fair condition
65%
39 of 60 rated 5-6
Poor condition
8.3%
5 of 60 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#79 of 120
Among Kentucky counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 60 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 26.7% (16)
Fair 65% (39)
Poor 8.3% (5)
Woodford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,951 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 790 crossings a day against 4,086 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 60 of 60 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
65% of Woodford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
39 of the 60 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 26.7% 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 55.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
KY-1681 over SOUTH ELKHORN CREEK, built 1949, carries 2,188 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 3,951 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Woodford County's bridges were built
60 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 4
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
9 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
9 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
16 bridges
- 1980s 6
1980–1989
6 bridges
- 1990s 3
1990–1999
3 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
7 bridges
- 2010s 5
2010–2019
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 16 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Kentucky average (1978).
How Woodford County compares with Kentucky's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Kentucky counties nearest Woodford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.3% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 119 Kentucky counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woodford County (this page) | 60 | 26.7% | 65% | 8.3% | 1976 |
| Jessamine County | 58 | 24.1% | 74.1% | 1.7% | 1980 |
| Spencer County | 58 | 15.5% | 75.9% | 8.6% | 1981 |
| Green County | 57 | 59.6% | 28.1% | 12.3% | 1979 |
| Hart County | 57 | 43.9% | 54.4% | 1.8% | 1980 |
| Estill County | 56 | 37.5% | 51.8% | 10.7% | 1977 |
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 Woodford 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 Woodford County, both outside Kentucky so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside KY (60 bridges here).
- Hamilton County, FL · 60 bridges
- Hernando County, FL · 60 bridges
- Madison County, FL · 60 bridges
- Heard County, GA · 60 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 (60)
GRIERS CREEK RD
GoodOver: GRIER CREEK
1.8MI W OF SCOTTS FERRY, Woodford, KY
Built 2017 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 88
Delaney Ferry Road
GoodOver: Branch of Clear Creek
500 FT W OF 169, Woodford, KY
Built 2012 Load: 45.6 t ADT: 300
CUMMINS FERRY RD
GoodOver: EAST FORK CLEAR CREEK
.8 MI W. JCT KY 33, Woodford, KY
Built 1989 Load: 49.0 t ADT: 244
SHRYOCKS FERRY RD
GoodOver: GRIER CREEK
1 MI S OF JCT CR 5217, Woodford, KY
Built 2016 Load: 57.7 t ADT: 31
I-64
GoodOver: BEALS RUN
2.2 MI E OF FRNKLN CO LN, Woodford, KY
Built 1972 Load: 99.8 t ADT: 38,908
KY-1659
PoorOver: CAMDEN CREEK
3.0 MI NORTH OF JCT US 60, Woodford, KY
Built 1970 Load: 23.0 t ADT: 344
KY-1965
PoorOver: TANNERS CREEK
2.0 MI S OF JCT KY 1964, Woodford, KY
Built 1970 Load: 23.3 t ADT: 202
KY-1681
PoorOver: SOUTH ELKHORN CREEK
.60 MI E OF JCT KY 1967, Woodford, KY
Built 1949 Load: 30.4 t ADT: 2,188
KY-1685
PoorOver: BR OF BEALS RUN
.30 MI SOU. OF I-64 OP, Woodford, KY
Built 1967 Load: 42.8 t ADT: 167
PAYNES DEPOT RD
PoorOver: S ELKHORN CR
1.7 MI N OF JCT 1681, Woodford, KY
Built 1987 Load: 44.8 t ADT: 1,050
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