Total bridges
169
Public highway bridges in Burt County
County profile · official public datasets
Burt County, NE
169 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 36.7% rated Good, 60.4% Fair, 3% Poor.
- 169
- Public bridges
- 36.7%
- Good condition
- 3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Burt County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 30%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 3%
- Poor-condition share
- 169
- public highway bridges
- 1983
- 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.
Burt County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Burt County ranks #26 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3%). Burt County, Nebraska contains 169 public highway bridges. Roughly 36.7% are rated “Good,” 60.4% “Fair,” and 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
36.7%
62 of 169 rated 7-9
Fair condition
60.4%
102 of 169 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3%
5 of 169 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#26 of 88
Among Nebraska counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 169 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 36.7% (62)
Fair 60.4% (102)
Poor 3% (5)
Burt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,910 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 582 crossings a day against 633 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 169 of 169 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
22.5% of Burt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
38 of the 169 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 36.7% 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 94.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
N32 over TEKAMAH CREEK, built 1973, carries 2,740 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 2,910 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Burt County's bridges were built
169 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1930s 7
1930–1939
7 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s 6
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s 9
1960–1969
9 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
30 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
44 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
45 bridges
- 2000s 9
2000–2009
9 bridges
- 2010s 10
2010–2019
10 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 45 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1983, 6 years newer than the Nebraska average of 1977.
How Burt County compares with Nebraska's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Burt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1983 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is 12 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 87 Nebraska counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton County | 175 | 32% | 56% | 12% | 1965 |
| Johnson County | 173 | 47.4% | 27.2% | 25.4% | 1971 |
| Merrick County | 173 | 65.3% | 26% | 8.7% | 1976 |
| Furnas County | 169 | 62.7% | 27.8% | 9.5% | 1973 |
| Burt County (this page) | 169 | 36.7% | 60.4% | 3% | 1983 |
| Antelope County | 162 | 31.5% | 53.1% | 15.4% | 1970 |
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 Burt 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 Burt County, both outside Nebraska so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NE (169 bridges here).
- Pike County, AL · 169 bridges
- Laurens County, GA · 169 bridges
- Cumberland County, IL · 169 bridges
- Union County, IA · 169 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1983 here).
- Dallas County, TX · avg 1983 · 3,230 bridges
- Bexar County, TX · avg 1983 · 2,342 bridges
- Sedgwick County, KS · avg 1983 · 1,333 bridges
- Will County, IL · avg 1983 · 649 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (169)
IRR/TOWNSHIP ROAD
GoodOver: STREAM
2.5W 1.3N DECATUR, Burt, NE
Built 1995 Load: 40.0 t ADT: 10
N32
GoodOver: TEKAMAH CREEK
IN TEKAMAH, Burt, NE
Built 1983 Load: 40.0 t ADT: 2,740
TOWNSHIP ROAD
GoodOver: STREAM
2.7S .3E CRAIG, Burt, NE
Built 1995 Load: 42.0 t ADT: 20
ROAD G
GoodOver: TEKAMAH CREEK
.3W TEKAMAH, Burt, NE
Built 2019 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 30
US77
GoodOver: LOGAN CREEK TRIBUTARY
6S OAKLAND, Burt, NE
Built 2021 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 2,800
N32
GoodOver: BELL CREEK TRIBUTARY
4E OAKLAND, Burt, NE
Built 1999 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 1,610
IRR/US75
GoodOver: WOOD CREEK
1N DECATUR, Burt, NE
Built 1997 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 1,400
US77
GoodOver: LOGAN CREEK TRIBUTARY
2S OAKLAND, Burt, NE
Built 2018 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 2,800
N32
GoodOver: BELL CREEK TRIBUTARY
5E OAKLAND, Burt, NE
Built 1999 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 1,610
US75
GoodOver: SILVER CREEK
3N TECHAMAH, Burt, NE
Built 2021 Load: 48.0 t ADT: 1,465
ROAD 45
GoodOver: COMBINATION DITCH
4E 3.5S TEKAMAH, Burt, NE
Built 2018 Load: 50.0 t ADT: 75
N32
GoodOver: BNSF RR 083-157-J
0W OAKLAND, Burt, NE
Built 2004 Load: 51.0 t ADT: 1,615
TOWNSHIP ROAD
GoodOver: STREAM
7W US73 WASINGTON CL, Burt, NE
Built 1988 Load: 54.0 t ADT: 40
N51
GoodOver: SOUTH BLACKBIRD CREEK
7.1W DECATUR, Burt, NE
Built 1993 Load: 54.0 t ADT: 1,250
COUNTY ROAD L
PoorOver: BELL CREEK
2N 3.2E OAKLAND, Burt, NE
Built 1935 Load: 8.0 t ADT: 50
COUNTY ROAD H
PoorOver: STREAM
3.2E OF CRAIG, Burt, NE
Built 1968 Load: 11.0 t ADT: 75
TOWNSHIP ROAD
PoorOver: STREAM
5S .7W OAKLAND, Burt, NE
Built 1935 Load: 12.0 t ADT: 20
N32
PoorOver: TEKAMAH CREEK
IN TEKAMAH, Burt, NE
Built 1973 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 2,740
TOWNSHIP ROAD
PoorOver: SILVER CREEK
3N .8W TEKAMAH, Burt, NE
Built 1974 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 25
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