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Cass County, NE

274 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.1% rated Good, 43.1% Fair, 13.9% Poor.

274
Public bridges
43.1%
Good condition
13.9%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Cass County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

76th
of 88 on Poor share
13.9%
Poor-condition share
274
public highway bridges
1980
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.

Cass County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cass County ranks #76 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 13.9%). Cass County, Nebraska contains 274 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.1% are rated “Good,” 43.1% “Fair,” and 13.9% “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

274

Public highway bridges in Cass County

Good condition

43.1%

118 of 274 rated 7-9

Fair condition

43.1%

118 of 274 rated 5-6

Poor condition

13.9%

38 of 274 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#76 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 274 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
43.1% (118)
Fair
43.1% (118)
Poor
13.9% (38)

Cass County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,135 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 13.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 451 crossings a day against 7,151 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 274 of 274 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

35% of Cass County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

96 of the 274 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 43.1% 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 38.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

N50 over BNSF RR 073-015-R, built 1957, carries 6,570 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 38-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 17,135 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Cass County's bridges were built

274 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 46 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Nebraska average (1977).

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

How Cass County compares with Nebraska's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Cass County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 13.9% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 87 Nebraska counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Cass County and the 5 Nebraska counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Cass County (this page) 274 13.9%
Hall County 271 3.7%
Richardson County 258 13.6%
Nuckolls County 255 9%
Colfax County 252 2%
Wayne County 251 9.6%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NE (274 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1980 here).

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

All 274 Good 118 Fair 118 Poor 38

Poor-condition bridges (38)

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: N BR WEEPING WATER CREEK

WJCT US34/N1 2E 4.6N, Cass, NE

Built 1978 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 95

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

1.5S OF MURDOCK, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 10

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: MILL CREEK

.2E 1N OF MANLEY, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 30

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

2.4N 5W OF MURRAY, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 15

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: N BR WEEPING WATER CREEK

.5N .7E OF ELMWOOD, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 10

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

1.7E OF NEHAWKA, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 50

6TH ST

Poor

Over: MILL CREEK

LOUISVILLE 6TH @ WALNUT, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 300

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: GREENWOOD CREEK

1.5E 1.5N OF GREENWOOD, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 3.0 t ADT: 25

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

1.5E OF WABASH, Cass, NE

Built 1900 Load: 4.0 t ADT: 10

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: FOURMILE CREEK

1.5W .5S OF PLATTSMOUTH, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 4.0 t ADT: 35

226TH ST

Poor

Over: GREENWOOD CREEK

1.5E 1.4N OF GREENWOOD, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 5.0 t ADT: 25

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: TURKEY CREEK

1.5S 1.4E OF CEDAR CREEK, Cass, NE

Built 1900 Load: 5.0 t ADT: 10

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

.5N 3E OF ELMWOOD, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 5.0 t ADT: 5

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

1W 1.5N OF NEHAWKA, Cass, NE

Built 1910 Load: 5.0 t ADT: 25

MILL RD

Poor

Over: CEDAR CREEK TRIB

1.8N 7.9W OF MURRAY, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 5.0 t ADT: 20

ALVO RD

Poor

Over: DEE CREEK TRIB

1.5W 2N OF ALVO, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 6.0 t ADT: 10

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

1.5S 1.9E OF MURDOCK, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 6.0 t ADT: 30

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

3.5N .2E OF NEHAWKA, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 6.0 t ADT: 20

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: CALLAHAN CREEK

2.5W .2N OF MURDOCK, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 7.0 t ADT: 10

262ND ST

Poor

Over: CALLAHAN CREEK

1.2S 3.5W OF MURDOCK, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 8.0 t ADT: 45

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

4.7E .1S OF ELMWOOD, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 8.0 t ADT: 30

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

2E 2S OF MURDOCK, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 20

RANDOLPH STREET

Poor

Over: WEEPING WATER CR NO BR

WEEPING W RANDOLPH/RIVR, Cass, NE

Built 1983 Load: 13.0 t ADT: 600

24TH ST

Poor

Over: WEEPING WATER CR SO BR

1.4W .5S OF UNION, Cass, NE

Built 1971 Load: 15.0 t ADT: 30

24TH AVE

Poor

Over: ERVINE CREEK

2.5E 1N OF UNION, Cass, NE

Built 1978 Load: 17.0 t ADT: 20

2ND STREET

Poor

Over: MILL CREEK

LOUISVILLE 2ND @ MAIN, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 18.0 t ADT: 1,500

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STOVE CREEK

.7S 2W OF ELMWOOD, Cass, NE

Built 1935 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 10

6TH AVE

Poor

Over: WEEPING WATER CREEK

1E 1S UNION, Cass, NE

Built 1979 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 20

OLD US34

Poor

Over: MISSOURI RIVER

2E PLATTSMOUTH, Cass, NE

Built 1929 Load: 21.0 t ADT: 1,385

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: MUD CREEK

3E 1.5N MURRAY, Cass, NE

Built 1979 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 90

N50

Poor

Over: N BR WEEPING WATER CK TR

8S LOUISVILLE, Cass, NE

Built 1953 Load: 23.0 t ADT: 4,360

N50

Poor

Over: BNSF RR 073-015-R

0W LOUISVILLE, Cass, NE

Built 1957 Load: 23.0 t ADT: 6,570

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: STREAM

3.7S CEDAR CREEK, Cass, NE

Built 1980 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 35

YOUNG RD

Poor

Over: MUD CREEK

EJCT US34/N1 1.5N 2.2E, Cass, NE

Built 1979 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 140

12TH ST

Poor

Over: COAL CREEK

.2W 2.9N OF UNION, Cass, NE

Built 1975 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 50

US34

Poor

Over: S BR WEEPING WATER CREEK

2W UNION CORNER, Cass, NE

Built 1989 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 1,405

BAY RD

Poor

Over: FOURMILE CREEK

JCT US73/N66 2W 3N, Cass, NE

Built 1981 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 65

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Poor

Over: GREENWOOD CREEK

1.5S 2E GREENWOOD, Cass, NE

Built 1960 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 25

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