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Garden County, NE

29 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 79.3% rated Good, 20.7% Fair, 0% Poor.

29
Public bridges
79.3%
Good condition
0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 9%
lowest Poor share in state
0%
Poor-condition share
29
public highway bridges
1964
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.

Garden County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Garden County ranks #8 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Garden County, Nebraska contains 29 public highway bridges. Roughly 79.3% are rated “Good,” 20.7% “Fair,” and 0% “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

29

Public highway bridges in Garden County

Good condition

79.3%

23 of 29 rated 7-9

Fair condition

20.7%

6 of 29 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0%

0 of 29 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#8 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 29 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
79.3% (23)
Fair
20.7% (6)
Poor
0% (0)

55.2% of Garden County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

16 of the 29 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 79.3% 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.

When Garden County's bridges were built

29 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1940s, when 6 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 75 to 84 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1964, 13 years older than the Nebraska average of 1977.

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

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

The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Garden County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1964 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 11 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Garden County and the 5 Nebraska counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Banner County 36 0%
Chase County 33 3%
Box Butte County 30 0%
Garden County (this page) 29 0%
Garfield County 24 4.2%
Keya Paha County 23 13%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NE (29 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1964 here).

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

All 29 Good 23 Fair 6 Poor 0

All bridges (29)

FAS 1265

Fair

Over: NORTH PLATTE RIVER

EJCT US26/N92 .5S .9W, Garden, NE

Built 1927 Load: 13.0 t ADT: 155

ROAD 151

Fair

Over: NORTH PLATTE RIVER

.5S OF LISCO, Garden, NE

Built 1928 Load: 17.0 t ADT: 145

US26/N92

Fair

Over: STREAM

4SE LISCO, Garden, NE

Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,835

US26

Fair

Over: NORTH PLATTE RIVER

2SE LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1939 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,615

US26

Fair

Over: NORTH PLATTE RIVER

2SE LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1939 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,615

N27

Fair

Over: NORTH PLATTE RIVER

2S OSHKOSH, Garden, NE

Built 1970 Load: 38.0 t ADT: 860

COUNTY HIGHWAY 195

Good

Over: ASH HOLLOW CREEK

1S 2W 5S LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1979 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 20

US26/N92

Good

Over: STREAM

1NW LISCO, Garden, NE

Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,770

US26/N92

Good

Over: COLDWATER CREEK

1SE LISCO, Garden, NE

Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,835

US26/N92

Good

Over: STREAM

7SE LISCO, Garden, NE

Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,835

US26/N92

Good

Over: MUTTON CREEK

8SE LISCO, Garden, NE

Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 2,190

US26/N92

Good

Over: MIDLAND-OVERLAND CANAL

4SE OSHKOSH, Garden, NE

Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 2,105

US26

Good

Over: ASH HOLLOW CREEK

3SE LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1939 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,615

US26

Good

Over: ASH HOLLOW CREEK

6SE LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1939 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,615

N27

Good

Over: ASH HOLLOW CREEK

11S OSHKOSH, Garden, NE

Built 1963 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 590

N92

Good

Over: STREAM

2E LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1968 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 545

FAS 1275 CO RD 181

Good

Over: BLUE CREEK

JCT US26/N27 .7E 13.8N, Garden, NE

Built 1984 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 155

FAS 1245/CO RD 191

Good

Over: ASH HOLLOW CREEK

JCT US26/N27 11.5S 6E, Garden, NE

Built 1985 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 15

COUNTY ROAD 48

Good

Over: BLUE CREEK

1.3W LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1984 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 40

COUNTY HIGHWAY 36

Good

Over: ASH HOLLOW CREEK

10.5S 3.5W OSHKOSH, Garden, NE

Built 1985 Load: 24.0 t ADT: 30

COLL 7207

Good

Over: BLUE CREEK

8N 4.5E OSHKOSH, Garden, NE

Built 1990 Load: 25.0 t ADT: 25

COUNTY HIGHWAY 185

Good

Over: ASH HOLLOW CREEK

10S 3E OSHKOSH, Garden, NE

Built 1995 Load: 26.0 t ADT: 30

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Good

Over: BLUE CREEK

3.5N 1.6W LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1978 Load: 26.0 t ADT: 10

US26/N92

Good

Over: LISCO CANAL

0NW LISCO, Garden, NE

Built 1991 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 1,770

US26/N92

Good

Over: LISCO CANAL

6SE LISCO, Garden, NE

Built 1991 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 1,835

COUNTY ROAD 70

Good

Over: BLUE CREEK

5.5N 8E OSHKOSH, Garden, NE

Built 2005 Load: 38.0 t ADT: 15

US26/N92

Good

Over: BLUE CREEK

2NW LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1992 Load: 43.0 t ADT: 2,105

US26/N92

Good

Over: UPRR

1W .5N OSHKOSH, Garden, NE

Built 2004 Load: 54.0 t ADT: 2,190

ROAD 50

Good

Over: BLUE CREEK

1N 1.5W LEWELLEN, Garden, NE

Built 1935 Load: 58.0 t ADT: 30

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.