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Holt County, NE

241 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 80.1% rated Good, 18.3% Fair, 1.7% Poor.

241
Public bridges
80.1%
Good condition
1.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Holt County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 18%
lowest Poor share in state
1.7%
Poor-condition share
241
public highway bridges
1988
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.

Holt County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Holt County ranks #16 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.7%). Holt County, Nebraska contains 241 public highway bridges. Roughly 80.1% are rated “Good,” 18.3% “Fair,” and 1.7% “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

241

Public highway bridges in Holt County

Good condition

80.1%

193 of 241 rated 7-9

Fair condition

18.3%

44 of 241 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.7%

4 of 241 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#16 of 88

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

Condition distribution

Share of 241 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
80.1% (193)
Fair
18.3% (44)
Poor
1.7% (4)

Holt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,355 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 839 crossings a day against 301 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 241 of 241 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

14.9% of Holt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

36 of the 241 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 80.1% 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 98.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US20/US275 over ELKHORN RIVER, built 1937, carries 3,315 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 3,355 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Holt County's bridges were built

241 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 76 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 31.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1988, 11 years newer than the Nebraska average of 1977.

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

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

The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Holt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.7% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 13 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Holt County and the 5 Nebraska counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Wayne County 251 9.6%
Scotts Bluff County 250 5.2%
Seward County 244 7.8%
Jefferson County 241 22.4%
Holt County (this page) 241 1.7%
Boone County 237 3.8%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NE (241 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1988 here).

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

All 241 Good 193 Fair 44 Poor 4

Good-condition bridges (193)

COLL 7510

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER

.5S 1.2E OF EWING, Holt, NE

Built 1988 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 205

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Good

Over: STREAM

2.5S 3.5E CHAMBERS, Holt, NE

Built 1986 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 35

US281

Good

Over: DRY CREEK

7S ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 1964 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 1,320

L45B US20 TO US275

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER OVERFLOW

1N EWING, Holt, NE

Built 1982 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 390

TOWNSHIP ROAD

Good

Over: HOLT CREEK

9.8N 8.5W AMELIA, Holt, NE

Built 2008 Load: 40.0 t ADT: 5

TOWNSHIP ROAD

Good

Over: EAGLE CREEK

3.2E 20.6N ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 1993 Load: 40.0 t ADT: 15

510TH AVE

Good

Over: CLEARWATER CREEK

8S US275 ANTELOPE CL, Holt, NE

Built 1995 Load: 40.0 t ADT: 10

478 AVE

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER

2E 1.7 ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 1990 Load: 40.0 t ADT: 35

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Good

Over: STREAM

7W 10.1N ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 2012 Load: 40.0 t ADT: 10

N11

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER

1S ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 1953 Load: 40.0 t ADT: 640

COLL 7489

Good

Over: S FK ELKHORN RIVER

.5S EWING, Holt, NE

Built 2014 Load: 41.0 t ADT: 290

COLL 7516

Good

Over: BIG SANDY CREEK

1.5W 18N ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 2018 Load: 41.0 t ADT: 35

COLL 7507

Good

Over: EAGLE CREEK

3.5E 14.5N OF EMMET, Holt, NE

Built 1993 Load: 41.0 t ADT: 40

ROAD 892

Good

Over: REDBIRD CREEK

REDBIRD, Holt, NE

Built 1988 Load: 41.0 t ADT: 80

TOWNSHIP ROAD

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER

1E .8S ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 1990 Load: 41.0 t ADT: 25

US281

Good

Over: CACHE CREEK

25S ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 2006 Load: 41.0 t ADT: 1,050

478TH AVE

Good

Over: SOUTH FORK ELKHORN RIVER

_, Holt, NE

Built 2022 Load: 42.0 t ADT: 50

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Good

Over: HOLT CREEK

9.4W ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 1984 Load: 42.0 t ADT: 25

COLL 7526

Good

Over: BLACKBIRD CREEK

11N ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 2016 Load: 42.0 t ADT: 65

US 281

Good

Over: NIOBRARA RIVER

_, Holt, NE

Built 2020 Load: 42.0 t ADT: 1,295

471ST AVE

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER

4W 1.4N ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 2017 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 60

470TH AVE

Good

Over: NIOBRARA RIVER

12W N11 BOYD CL, Holt, NE

Built 2022 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 60

485TH AVE

Good

Over: EAGLE CREEK NORTH BRANCH

7W 11.8N ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 1988 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 10

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Good

Over: BEAVER CREEK

7W 14.7N ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 1988 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 15

N11

Good

Over: DRY CREEK

20S ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 2017 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 345

N11

Good

Over: DRY CREEK TRIB

17S ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 2017 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 345

N11

Good

Over: DRY CREEK

16S ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 2017 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 345

885 ROAD

Good

Over: BACKBIRD CREEK

13N 1E ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 1989 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 10

TOWNSHIP ROAD

Good

Over: CACHE CREEK

7.5W 5.2S EWING, Holt, NE

Built 2022 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 5

469TH RD

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER TRIB

6W 2.4N ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 1987 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 40

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Good

Over: STREAM

2E 1.8S ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 1989 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 35

US281

Good

Over: S FK ELKHORN RIVER

14S ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 2009 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 1,125

COUNTY HIGHWAY

Good

Over: DRY CREEK

.5W 2.7N AMELIA, Holt, NE

Built 1998 Load: 48.0 t ADT: 30

US281

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER

1S ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 1991 Load: 48.0 t ADT: 1,320

US20

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER

6SE INMAN, Holt, NE

Built 2000 Load: 49.0 t ADT: 820

US281

Good

Over: DRY CREEK OVERFLOW

6S ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 1963 Load: 49.0 t ADT: 1,320

COLL 7514

Good

Over: STREAM

2E 3S ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 1999 Load: 50.0 t ADT: 35

494TH AVE

Good

Over: CACHE CREEK

13.5W 9.4S EWING, Holt, NE

Built 1996 Load: 53.0 t ADT: 5

COLL 7507

Good

Over: EAGLE CREEK

6W 11.7N ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 2018 Load: 53.0 t ADT: 40

US281

Good

Over: DRY CREEK

20S ONEILL, Holt, NE

Built 2006 Load: 53.0 t ADT: 1,050

TOWNSHIP ROAD

Good

Over: KEEGAN CREEK

1N 6.3W ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 1989 Load: 60.0 t ADT: 25

478TH RD

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER TRIB

2E 2.8S ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 2000 Load: 64.0 t ADT: 30

ROAD 870

Good

Over: ELKHORN RIVER TRIBUTARY

6.5S & 2.0W OF ATKINSON, Holt, NE

Built 2023 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 100

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