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Deuel County, NE

73 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 80.8% rated Good, 17.8% Fair, 1.4% Poor.

73
Public bridges: 80.8%
Good condition: 1.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Deuel County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 16%
lowest Poor share in state: 1.4%
Poor-condition share: 73
public highway bridges: 1979
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.

Deuel County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Deuel County ranks #14 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.4%). Deuel County, Nebraska contains 73 public highway bridges. Roughly 80.8% are rated “Good,” 17.8% “Fair,” and 1.4% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Deuel County

Good condition

80.8%

59 of 73 rated 7-9

Fair condition

17.8%

13 of 73 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.4%

1 of 73 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#14 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 73 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

80.8% (59)

Fair

17.8% (13)

Poor

1.4% (1)

Deuel County's Poor-condition bridges carry 35 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 35 crossings a day against 2,757 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 73 of 73 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

52.1% of Deuel County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

38 of the 73 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 80.8% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

COUNTY HIGHWAY 199 over WESTERN CANAL, built 1971, carries 35 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 35 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

5
1950s

1
1960s

24
1970s

11
1980s

15
1990s

6
2000s

1
2010s

5
2020s

5

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 24 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 32.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Nebraska average (1977).

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

The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Deuel County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.4% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is 5 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Deuel County and the 5 Nebraska counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Phelps County	80	52.5%	40%	7.5%	1980
Red Willow County	80	60%	35%	5%	1970
Hitchcock County	77	77.9%	18.2%	3.9%	1969
Dakota County	73	50.7%	39.7%	9.6%	1975
Deuel County (this page)	73	80.8%	17.8%	1.4%	1979
Kearney County	71	63.4%	35.2%	1.4%	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 Deuel 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 Deuel County, both outside Nebraska so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NE (73 bridges here).

Stone County, AR · 73 bridges
Levy County, FL · 73 bridges
Putnam County, FL · 73 bridges
Dade County, GA · 73 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1979 here).

Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges

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

All 73 Good 59 Fair 13 Poor 1

All bridges (73)

Sort:

COLL 7219

Fair

Over: WESTERN CANAL

2.5S OF BIG SPRINGS CR209, Deuel, NE

Built 1977 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 260

COUNTY HIGHWAY 173

Fair

Over: LODGEPOLE CREEK

2.4E 3.4S OF CHAPPELL, Deuel, NE

Built 1988 Load: 23.0 t ADT: 5

COUNTY HIGHWAY 159

Fair

Over: LODGEPOLE CR

RD 159 S HWY 30, Deuel, NE

Built 1984 Load: 23.0 t ADT: 10

FAS 1210 CR 203

Fair

Over: WESTERN CANAL

JCT I76/I80 1.4E .2S, Deuel, NE

Built 1971 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 245

COUNTY HIGHWAY 207

Fair

Over: WESTERN CANAL

.5W 2.4S OF BIG SPRINGS, Deuel, NE

Built 1983 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 20

COUNTY HWY RD 205

Fair

Over: SEASONAL DRAW

5W 2.7N BIG SPRINGS, Deuel, NE

Built 1975 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 10

I80

Fair

Over: ROAD 189

2E N27 INTERCHG, Deuel, NE

Built 1969 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 7,530

US385

Fair

Over: UPRR 815-506-S

IN CHAPPELL, Deuel, NE

Built 1935 Load: 30.0 t ADT: 1,225

CO RD 36.3

Fair

Over: STREAM

CO STATELINE, Deuel, NE

Built 1935 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 10

COUNTY HWY RD 4

Fair

Over: WESTERN CANAL

6W 3S OF BIG SPRINGS, Deuel, NE

Built 1996 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 30

LINK 25B & RD 209

Fair

Over: I80

BIG SPRINGS INTERCHG, Deuel, NE

Built 1968 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 1,560

I80

Fair

Over: SOUTH PLATTE RIVER

1E US138 INTERCHG, Deuel, NE

Built 1968 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 7,555

L25B BIG SPRNGS CL

Fair

Over: SOUTH PLATTE RIVER

JCT I80/L25B .5N, Deuel, NE

Deuel County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Deuel County's Poor-condition bridges carry 35 vehicle crossings a day

52.1% of Deuel County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

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

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (73)

COLL 7219

COUNTY HIGHWAY 173

COUNTY HIGHWAY 159

FAS 1210 CR 203

COUNTY HIGHWAY 207

COUNTY HWY RD 205

I80

US385

CO RD 36.3

COUNTY HWY RD 4

LINK 25B & RD 209

I80

L25B BIG SPRNGS CL

COLL 7195 CR 157

FAS 1235 CR 167

COUNTY HIGHWAY 14

FAS 1243 CR 187

N27

US30/US385

US30/US385

US30/N27

I80

US138

ROAD 157

COUNTY HWY CR201

I80

US138

N27

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY HIGHWAY RD4

N27

US30

US30

US30

US30

US30

US30

US30

I80

I80

I80

I80

I80

WB-I80 ACCESS RMPS

EB-I80 RAMPS

I80

I80

ROAD 203

US138

US138

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