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Greeley County, NE

84 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 28.6% rated Good, 54.8% Fair, 16.7% Poor.

84
Public bridges: 28.6%
Good condition: 16.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Greeley County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

80th
of 88 on Poor share: 16.7%
Poor-condition share: 84
public highway bridges: 1969
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.

Greeley County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Greeley County ranks #80 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 16.7%). Greeley County, Nebraska contains 84 public highway bridges. Roughly 28.6% are rated “Good,” 54.8% “Fair,” and 16.7% “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

Public highway bridges in Greeley County

Good condition

28.6%

24 of 84 rated 7-9

Fair condition

54.8%

46 of 84 rated 5-6

Poor condition

16.7%

14 of 84 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#80 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 84 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

28.6% (24)

Fair

54.8% (46)

Poor

16.7% (14)

Greeley County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,210 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 16.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 86 crossings a day against 564 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 84 of 84 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

58.3% of Greeley County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

49 of the 84 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 28.6% 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 38.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

FAS 2315 over CEDAR RIVER, built 1979, carries 470 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 14-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,210 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

6
1930s

11
1940s

4
1950s

8
1960s

18
1970s

10
1980s

9
1990s

2
2000s

4
2010s

10
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 18 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1969, 8 years older than the Nebraska average of 1977.

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

The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Greeley County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 16.7% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1969 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Greeley County and the 5 Nebraska counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Dawes County	91	67%	22%	11%	1965
Keith County	91	76.9%	23.1%	0%	1972
Kimball County	88	70.5%	28.4%	1.1%	1971
Greeley County (this page)	84	28.6%	54.8%	16.7%	1969
Phelps County	80	52.5%	40%	7.5%	1980
Red Willow County	80	60%	35%	5%	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 Greeley 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 Greeley County, both outside Nebraska so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NE (84 bridges here).

Chaffee County, CO · 84 bridges
Elbert County, GA · 84 bridges
Glynn County, GA · 84 bridges
Paulding County, GA · 84 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1969 here).

Cook County, IL · avg 1969 · 1,721 bridges
Fresno County, CA · avg 1969 · 916 bridges
Cuyahoga County, OH · avg 1969 · 871 bridges
Ventura County, CA · avg 1969 · 501 bridges

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

All 84 Good 24 Fair 46 Poor 14

All bridges (84)

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Greeley County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Greeley County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,210 vehicle crossings a day

58.3% of Greeley County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 38.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Greeley 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 (84)

COUNTY ROAD 505 AV

804A RD

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY ROAD 804

COUNTY ROAD 820

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COLL 7576

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY HIGHWAY

N56

COUNTY HIGHWAY

US281

FAS 2315

FAS 2315

FAS 2250

US281

COLL 7579

COUNTY HIGHWAY

N56

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY RD 504TH AV

FAS 2325

FAS 2240

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COLL 7576

N91

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY RD 489TH AV

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COLL 7575

COUNTY ROAD 802 AV

COUNTY RD 507TH AV

N22

N91

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY HIGHWAY

COUNTY HIGHWAY

N11

N22

N22

US281/N91

COUNTY ROAD 808

N11

N11

N56

N56

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