Total bridges
174
Public highway bridges in Lac qui Parle County
County profile · official public datasets
Lac qui Parle County, MN
174 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 73% rated Good, 19.5% Fair, 7.5% Poor.
- 174
- Public bridges
- 73%
- Good condition
- 7.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lac qui Parle County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 73rd
- of 87 on Poor share
- 7.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 174
- public highway bridges
- 1986
- 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.
Lac qui Parle County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lac qui Parle County ranks #73 of 87 Minnesota counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.5%). Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota contains 174 public highway bridges. Roughly 73% are rated “Good,” 19.5% “Fair,” and 7.5% “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
73%
127 of 174 rated 7-9
Fair condition
19.5%
34 of 174 rated 5-6
Poor condition
7.5%
13 of 174 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#73 of 87
Among Minnesota counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 174 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 73% (127)
Fair 19.5% (34)
Poor 7.5% (13)
Lac qui Parle County's Poor-condition bridges carry 576 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 44 crossings a day against 260 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 174 of 174 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
24.1% of Lac qui Parle County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
42 of the 174 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 73% 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 18.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CSAH 38 over CO DITCH # 3, built 1974, carries 105 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 13-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 576 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Lac qui Parle County's bridges were built
174 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 2
1910–1919
2 bridges
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 6
1930–1939
6 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
17 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
29 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
31 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
31 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
29 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
18 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 31 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1986) matches the Minnesota average (1986).
How Lac qui Parle County compares with Minnesota's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Minnesota counties nearest Lac qui Parle County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.5% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1986 against a peer-group mean of 1985 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 86 Minnesota counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dodge County | 177 | 46.9% | 44.1% | 9% | 1983 |
| Lac qui Parle County (this page) | 174 | 73% | 19.5% | 7.5% | 1986 |
| Houston County | 172 | 64% | 33.7% | 2.3% | 1990 |
| Pine County | 171 | 63.2% | 32.2% | 4.7% | 1987 |
| Itasca County | 170 | 50% | 44.7% | 5.3% | 1985 |
| Watonwan County | 167 | 69.5% | 29.9% | 0.6% | 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 Lac qui Parle 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 Lac qui Parle County, both outside Minnesota so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MN (174 bridges here).
- Hempstead County, AR · 174 bridges
- Eagle County, CO · 174 bridges
- Washington County, IN · 174 bridges
- Sussex County, NJ · 174 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MN (1986 here).
- El Paso County, TX · avg 1986 · 783 bridges
- Caddo County, LA · avg 1986 · 682 bridges
- Weld County, CO · avg 1986 · 614 bridges
- Polk County, IA · avg 1986 · 545 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (174)
T 310
GoodOver: Yellow Bank River
1.2 mi W of jct CSAH 15, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 2002 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 40
CSAH 20
GoodOver: LAC QUI PARLE RIVER
1.1 MI W OF JCT CR 75, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 2013 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 530
MN 40
GoodOver: CO DITCH # 5
8.8 MI W OF JCT TH 75, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1963 Load: 45.7 t ADT: 513
CSAH 40
GoodOver: YELLOW BANK RIVER
0.5 MI W OF JCT CSAH 15, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 2000 Load: 46.2 t ADT: 185
T 280
GoodOver: LAC QUI PARLE RIVER
0.4 MI E OF JCT CR 69, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1971 Load: 46.3 t ADT: 65
US 75
GoodOver: MINNESOTA RIVER
2.4 MI SE OF ODESSA, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 2001 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 590
CSAH 8
GoodOver: LAC QUI PARLE RIVER
1.1 MI E JCT CSAH 23, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 2007 Load: 47.9 t ADT: 80
CSAH 23
GoodOver: W FK LAC QUI PARLE RIVER
0.4 MI N OF JCT CSAH 10, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1998 Load: 54.3 t ADT: 2,146
CSAH 2
GoodOver: Lac Qui Parle River
0.1 mi ER of jct CR 63, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 2001 Load: 54.9 t ADT: 255
MN 40
GoodOver: LAC QUI PARLE RIVER
12.5 MI W OF JCT TH 75, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1963 Load: 57.0 t ADT: 234
CSAH 15
GoodOver: MINNESOTA RIVER
2.1 MI N OF JCT CSAH 40, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 2007 Load: 58.3 t ADT: 220
T 52C
PoorOver: CANBY CREEK
0.8 MI E OF JCT CSAH 11, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1964 Load: 7.8 t ADT: 50
T 37
PoorOver: W FK LAC QUI PARLE RIVER
0.9 MI N OF JCT TH 212, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1936 Load: 8.5 t ADT: 50
T 18
PoorOver: CO DITCH # 3
0.5 MI W OF JCT CR 59, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1958 Load: 9.8 t ADT: 32
T 2
PoorOver: STREAM
0.8 MI N OF JCT CSAH 24, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1973 Load: 11.0 t ADT: 89
CSAH 21
PoorOver: DITCH
2.0 MI S OF JCT TH 40, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1973 Load: 14.1 t ADT: 65
T 65
PoorOver: STREAM
0.8 MI W OF JCT CSAH 7, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1974 Load: 16.1 t ADT: 30
CSAH 38
PoorOver: CO DITCH # 3
0.2 MI W OF JCT CR 59, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1974 Load: 19.6 t ADT: 105
T 59
PoorOver: DITCH
1.1 MI S OF JCT CSAH 24, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1967 Load: 22.2 t ADT: 50
T 278
PoorOver: TEN MILE CREEK (JD #8)
1.1 MI W OF JCT CSAH 35, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1977 Load: 22.9 t ADT: 20
T 166
PoorOver: TEN MILE CREEK
1.3 MI N OF JCT CSAH 8, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1967 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 25
CR 54
PoorOver: STREAM
0.4 MI E OF JCT TH 75, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1910 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 25
CR 52
PoorOver: CANBY CREEK
0.2 MI E OF JCT TH 75, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1968 Load: 32.2 t ADT: 25
T 189
PoorOver: STREAM
0.6 MI S OF JCT CSAH 16, Lac qui Parle, MN
Built 1960 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10
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