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Lincoln County, MO

189 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.2% rated Good, 56.1% Fair, 3.7% Poor.

189
Public bridges
40.2%
Good condition
3.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Lincoln County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 9%
lowest Poor share in state
3.7%
Poor-condition share
189
public highway bridges
1987
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.

Lincoln County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lincoln County ranks #10 of 115 Missouri counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.7%). Lincoln County, Missouri contains 189 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.2% are rated “Good,” 56.1% “Fair,” and 3.7% “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

189

Public highway bridges in Lincoln County

Good condition

40.2%

76 of 189 rated 7-9

Fair condition

56.1%

106 of 189 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.7%

7 of 189 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#10 of 115

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

Condition distribution

Share of 189 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
40.2% (76)
Fair
56.1% (106)
Poor
3.7% (7)

Lincoln County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,075 vehicle crossings a day

That is 2.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,868 crossings a day against 2,223 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 189 of 189 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

33.3% of Lincoln County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

63 of the 189 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 40.2% 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 42.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

EAST CHERRY ST E over US 61, built 1970, carries 5,573 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 13,075 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Lincoln County's bridges were built

189 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 35 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1987, 8 years newer than the Missouri average of 1979.

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

How Lincoln County compares with Missouri's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Missouri counties nearest Lincoln County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.7% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1987 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 7 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 114 Missouri counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lincoln County and the 5 Missouri counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Atchison County 191 9.4%
Howell County 189 2.1%
Webster County 189 8.5%
Lincoln County (this page) 189 3.7%
Grundy County 187 11.2%
Marion County 186 9.1%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MO (189 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MO (1987 here).

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

All 189 Good 76 Fair 106 Poor 7

Good-condition bridges (76)

MEIER RD

Good

Over: BOBS CREEK

S 34 T 49 N R 2 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2020 Load: 41.4 t ADT: 200

MEYER RD 729

Good

Over: SAND RUN CR

S 24 T 48 N R 1 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 1998 Load: 42.3 t ADT: 250

HUMPHREY RD

Good

Over: TRIB TO CROOKED CR

S 15 T 48 N R 1 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2019 Load: 42.3 t ADT: 100

RT H S

Good

Over: CUIVRE RVR

S 9 T 49 N R 1 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2017 Load: 43.2 t ADT: 2,978

BUNKER HILL RD

Good

Over: MILL CR

S 6 T 50 N R 1 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2018 Load: 43.2 t ADT: 250

TAYLOR SCHOOL RD

Good

Over: BOBS CK

S 11 T 49 N R 1 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2019 Load: 43.2 t ADT: 20

RATERMAN RD 289

Good

Over: BIG LEAD CR

S 12 T 50 N R 3 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2005 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 50

MCINTOSH RD 645

Good

Over: SANDY CR

S 3269 T 50 N R 2 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2005 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 250

RT D S

Good

Over: TURKEY CR

S 22 T 49 N R 2 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2012 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 1,142

QUARRY RD 575

Good

Over: LEAD CR

S 1 T 49 N R 2 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2016 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 150

RT KK E

Good

Over: BOBS CR

S 34 T 50 N R 1 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2002 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 1,314

MO 47 S

Good

Over: COON CR

S 3 T 48 N R 2 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2001 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 3,631

S MILLWOOD RD 580

Good

Over: NULLS CR

S 15 T 50 N R 2 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2003 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 75

GESSMAN RD

Good

Over: TRIB N FK CUIVRE R

S 24 T 51 N R 2 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2019 Load: 46.8 t ADT: 15

RT M E

Good

Over: KINGS LK

S 12 T 50 N R 2 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2021 Load: 46.8 t ADT: 112

MO 47 S

Good

Over: BOBS CR

S 23 T 49 N R 1 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 1996 Load: 46.8 t ADT: 7,871

MO 47 S

Good

Over: BRUSHY FK BOBS CR

S 27 T 49 N R 2 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 1996 Load: 46.8 t ADT: 8,589

MO 47 S

Good

Over: TOWN BR

S 30 T 49 N R 1 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2001 Load: 50.4 t ADT: 14,260

SAND RUN RD

Good

Over: WITCOMB BR

S 35 T 49 N R 1 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 1998 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 1,000

MENNEMEYER RD 753

Good

Over: CROOKED CR

S 10 T 48 N R 1 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2024 Load: 54.0 t ADT: 150

ZUMWALT RD

Good

Over: LIT SANDY CR

S 1686 T 51 N R 1 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 2019 Load: 55.8 t ADT: 5

CORSO RD 288

Good

Over: BIG LEAD CR

S 11 T 50 N R 3 W, Lincoln, MO

Built 1994 Load: 56.7 t ADT: 50

RT CC E

Good

Over: BRYANTS CR

S 37 T 51 N R 1 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2021 Load: 57.6 t ADT: 294

KAIMANN LN 896

Good

Over: BRANCH

S 17 T 48 N R 2 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2000 Load: 62.1 t ADT: 30

JOHN CREECH ROAD

Good

Over: UNNAMED CRK

S 29 T 48 N R 1 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 2022 Load: 79.2 t ADT: 75

N ETHLYN RD 685

Good

Over: BIRKHEAD BR

S 18 T 49 N R 2 E, Lincoln, MO

Built 1998 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 200

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