Total bridges
13
Public highway bridges in Perkins County
County profile · official public datasets
Perkins County, NE
13 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 84.6% rated Good, 15.4% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 13
- Public bridges
- 84.6%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Perkins County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 11%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 13
- public highway bridges
- 1955
- 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.
Perkins County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Perkins County ranks #10 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Perkins County, Nebraska contains 13 public highway bridges. Roughly 84.6% are rated “Good,” 15.4% “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.
Good condition
84.6%
11 of 13 rated 7-9
Fair condition
15.4%
2 of 13 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 13 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#10 of 88
Among Nebraska counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 13 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 84.6% (11)
Fair 15.4% (2)
Poor 0% (0)
100% of Perkins County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
13 of the 13 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 84.6% 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.
When Perkins County's bridges were built
13 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1940s
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s 2
1950–1959
2 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
7 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 7 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 53.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1955, 22 years older than the Nebraska average of 1977.
How Perkins County compares with Nebraska's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Perkins 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 1955 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 29 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 87 Nebraska counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loup County | 20 | 50% | 35% | 15% | 1977 |
| Blaine County | 19 | 57.9% | 31.6% | 10.5% | 1990 |
| Thomas County | 19 | 57.9% | 42.1% | 0% | 1989 |
| Rock County | 14 | 42.9% | 50% | 7.1% | 1968 |
| Wheeler County | 13 | 76.9% | 23.1% | 0% | 1998 |
| Perkins County (this page) | 13 | 84.6% | 15.4% | 0% | 1955 |
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 Perkins 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 Perkins County, both outside Nebraska so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NE (13 bridges here).
- Bethel County, AK · 13 bridges
- San Juan County, CO · 13 bridges
- Harding County, NM · 13 bridges
- Divide County, ND · 13 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1955 here).
- Brown County, TX · avg 1955 · 223 bridges
- Beadle County, SD · avg 1955 · 152 bridges
- Boone County, IA · avg 1955 · 135 bridges
- Duval County, TX · avg 1955 · 121 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (13)
FAS 1455
FairOver: BLACKWOOD CREEK
EJCT N23/N61 20E 4S, Perkins, NE
Built 1940 Load: 16.0 t ADT: 265
FAS 1365
FairOver: STREAM
EJCT N23/N61 18E 4.1N, Perkins, NE
Built 1961 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 75
FAS 1335
GoodOver: STREAM
WJCT N23/N61 10W 4.5S, Perkins, NE
Built 1966 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 112
FAS 1335
GoodOver: SPRING CREEK
WJCT N23/N61 10W 3.8S, Perkins, NE
Built 1966 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 119
COLL 7227
GoodOver: STREAM
7.2S .2W OF ELSIE, Perkins, NE
Built 1961 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 61
COLL 7227
GoodOver: STREAM
4.2S .5W OF ELSIE, Perkins, NE
Built 1962 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 60
FAS 1355
GoodOver: RED WILLOW CREEK
EJCT N23/N61 17E 5.2N, Perkins, NE
Built 1963 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 252
FAS 1455
GoodOver: STREAM
EJCT N23/N61 20E 6.2S, Perkins, NE
Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 269
FAS 1455
GoodOver: STREAM
EJCT N23/N61 20E 4.2S, Perkins, NE
Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 265
FAS 1455
GoodOver: STREAM
EJCT N23/N61 20E 3.4S, Perkins, NE
Built 1940 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 265
FAS 1365
GoodOver: STREAM
EJCT N23/N61 20E .3N, Perkins, NE
Built 1966 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 159
N23
GoodOver: STREAM
1W BRANDON, Perkins, NE
Built 1952 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 925
N23
GoodOver: BIG BLUE RIVER N BR
5W GRANT, Perkins, NE
Built 1952 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 1,120
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