Total bridges
96
Public highway bridges in Menominee County
County profile · official public datasets
Menominee County, MI
96 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 47.9% rated Good, 42.7% Fair, 9.4% Poor.
- 96
- Public bridges
- 47.9%
- Good condition
- 9.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Menominee County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- Top 46%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 9.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 96
- public highway bridges
- 1978
- 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.
Menominee County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Menominee County ranks #38 of 83 Michigan counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.4%). Menominee County, Michigan contains 96 public highway bridges. Roughly 47.9% are rated “Good,” 42.7% “Fair,” and 9.4% “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
47.9%
46 of 96 rated 7-9
Fair condition
42.7%
41 of 96 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.4%
9 of 96 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#38 of 83
Among Michigan counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 96 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 47.9% (46)
Fair 42.7% (41)
Poor 9.4% (9)
Menominee County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,099 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 344 crossings a day against 1,426 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 96 of 96 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
43.8% of Menominee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
42 of the 96 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 47.9% 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 41.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
ROUTE 581 over LITTLE RIVER, built 1962, carries 1,283 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 9-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 3,099 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Menominee County's bridges were built
96 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s
1920–1929
7 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
8 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
7 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
12 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
15 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
7 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
13 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
12 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
9 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 15 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 15.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Michigan average (1976).
How Menominee County compares with Michigan's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Michigan counties nearest Menominee County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.4% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 82 Michigan counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillsdale County | 105 | 24.8% | 58.1% | 17.1% | 1973 |
| Gogebic County | 104 | 23.1% | 59.6% | 17.3% | 1969 |
| Osceola County | 103 | 38.8% | 54.4% | 6.8% | 1983 |
| Oceana County | 100 | 31% | 64% | 5% | 1977 |
| Clare County | 96 | 38.5% | 58.3% | 3.1% | 1984 |
| Menominee County (this page) | 96 | 47.9% | 42.7% | 9.4% | 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 Menominee 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 Menominee County, both outside Michigan so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MI (96 bridges here).
- Del Norte County, CA · 96 bridges
- Routt County, CO · 96 bridges
- Blaine County, ID · 96 bridges
- Aitkin County, MN · 96 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MI (1978 here).
- Orange County, CA · avg 1978 · 1,164 bridges
- Sumner County, KS · avg 1978 · 659 bridges
- Allen County, IN · avg 1978 · 613 bridges
- Livingston County, IL · avg 1978 · 579 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (96)
ROUTE 557
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR RIVER
0.3 MI S OF US-2 & US-41, Menominee, MI
Built 2009 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 543
19 MILE ROAD
GoodOver: BIG BAIRD CREEK
4.5 MI. SE OF STEPHENSON, Menominee, MI
Built 1997 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 37
SOBIESKI RD
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
8.0 MI N OF MENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 1992 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 410
ROUTE 338
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
1 MI E OF CARBONDALE, Menominee, MI
Built 1993 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 461
ROUTE 352
GoodOver: WALTON RIVER
7 MI E OF STEPHENSON, Menominee, MI
Built 1981 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 569
ROUTE 566
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR RIVER
IN SPALDING, Menominee, MI
Built 1985 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 150
40.75 MILE ROAD
GoodOver: FOURTY SEVEN CREEK
0.5 MI. W OF HOULE, Menominee, MI
Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
G-2 ROAD
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR RIVER
1 MI. W OF WILSON, Menominee, MI
Built 1977 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
H-1 ROAD
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR
2 MI E POWERS, Menominee, MI
Built 2006 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 10
CHALKHILLS ROAD
GoodOver: LITTLE CEDAR CREEK
6.5 MI E OF BANAT, Menominee, MI
Built 2006 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 187
US-2
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR RIVER
1.3 MI NW OF POWERS, Menominee, MI
Built 2021 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 4,850
US-2
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR RIVER
0.4 MI NW OF POWERS, Menominee, MI
Built 1933 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 3,591
M-2 ROAD
GoodOver: HAYS RIVER
1 MILES NE OF DAGGETT, Menominee, MI
Built 2010 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 110
32 MI ROAD
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR RIVER
9 MI SE POWERS, Menominee, MI
Built 2004 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 50
ROUTE 366
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR RIVER
10 MI E OF TALBOT, Menominee, MI
Built 1974 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 57
MENOMINEE STREET
GoodOver: LITTLE CEDAR RIVER
IN STEPHENSON, Menominee, MI
Built 2003 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 3,000
US-41
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
3.0 MI S OF CARBONDALE, Menominee, MI
Built 1929 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 4,528
26 MILE ROAD
GoodOver: LITTLE CEDAR RIVER
2 MI. N OF DAGGETT, Menominee, MI
Built 2010 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 89
OLD US 2
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR
0.25 MI N POWERS, Menominee, MI
Built 1995 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 100
US-41 IN MENOMINEE
GoodOver: MENOMINEE RIVER
WISCONSIN STATE LINE, Menominee, MI
Built 2005 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 20,760
COUNTY RD 400
GoodOver: FORTY SEVEN MILE CREEK
2.0 MI. SW OF PERRONVILLE, Menominee, MI
Built 1999 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 20
22.5 MILE ROAD
GoodOver: LITTLE CEDAR RIVER
1 MI. S OF DAGGETT, Menominee, MI
Built 2022 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 275
US-41
GoodOver: C&NW & E&LS RR
IN MENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 1998 Load: 41.8 t ADT: 20,760
O-3 ROAD
GoodOver: LITTLE CEDAR RIVER
0.5 MI. NW OF DAGGETT, Menominee, MI
Built 2010 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 20
F-1 ROAD
GoodOver: TEN MILE CREEK
3 MI. NW OF WHITNEY, Menominee, MI
Built 2015 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 100
RIVER ROAD
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
1.7 MI W OF MENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 1969 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 650
F-4 ROAD
GoodOver: BIG CEDAR
3.5 MI E POWERS, Menominee, MI
Built 2011 Load: 45.7 t ADT: 65
KOSS ROAD (S-4)
GoodOver: MENOMINEE RIVER
0.5 MI. SE OF KOSS, Menominee, MI
Built 1991 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 463
5 MILE ROAD
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
5 MI. NW OF MENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 2017 Load: 46.7 t ADT: 50
10 MILE ROAD
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
1 MI. S OF CARBONDALE, Menominee, MI
Built 2017 Load: 46.7 t ADT: 51
LANSMIER RD
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
8.5 MI. N OF MENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 2006 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 414
40.75 MILE ROAD
GoodOver: WILSON CREEK
0.5 MI. W OF WILSON, Menominee, MI
Built 2011 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 100
MILL STREET
GoodOver: LITTLE CEDAR RIVER
IN STEPHENSON, Menominee, MI
Built 2004 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 1,000
29 MILE ROAD
GoodOver: DEVILS CREEK
8 MI. NE OF DAGGETT, Menominee, MI
Built 2021 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 100
CR 348
GoodOver: BIG BAIRD CREEK
4.6 MI SE OF STEPHENSON, Menominee, MI
Built 2020 Load: 55.7 t ADT: 250
NORTH N3 LANE
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
.5 MI SE. CARBONDALE, Menominee, MI
Built 2022 Load: 59.3 t ADT: 75
C-1 ROAD
GoodOver: TEN MILE CREEK
1 MI. NW OF PERRONVILLE, Menominee, MI
Built 2019 Load: 65.4 t ADT: 100
6.25 ROAD
PoorOver: LITTLE RIVER
5 MI. N OFMENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 1928 Load: 11.7 t ADT: 39
ROUTE 577
PoorOver: LITTLE RIVER
2.5 MI W OF BIRCH CREEK, Menominee, MI
Built 1920 Load: 16.1 t ADT: 216
3.5 MI ROAD
PoorOver: LITTLE RIVER
3.5 MI N MENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 1981 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 292
CAPPAERT ROAD
PoorOver: BIG BAIRD CREEK
4 MI. SE OF STEPHENSON, Menominee, MI
Built 1957 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 116
ROUTE 342
PoorOver: MENOMINEE RIVER
2.5 MI W OF WALLACE, Menominee, MI
Built 1967 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 749
B-2 ROAD
PoorOver: TEN MILE CREEK
0.3 MI. S OF PERRONVILLE, Menominee, MI
Built 1940 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 20
31 MILE ROAD
PoorOver: LITTLE CEDAR RIVER
2 MI. NW OF BAGLEY, Menominee, MI
Built 1934 Load: 28.9 t ADT: 92
DEERPARK DRIVE
PoorOver: LITTLE RIVER
2 MI. NW OF MENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 1928 Load: 29.5 t ADT: 292
ROUTE 581
PoorOver: LITTLE RIVER
1.7 MI W OF MENOMINEE, Menominee, MI
Built 1962 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,283
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