Total bridges
192
Public highway bridges in Sarpy County
County profile · official public datasets
Sarpy County, NE
192 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 38.5% rated Good, 52.1% Fair, 9.4% Poor.
- 192
- Public bridges
- 38.5%
- Good condition
- 9.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Sarpy County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 60th
- of 88 on Poor share
- 9.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 192
- public highway bridges
- 1980
- 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.
Sarpy County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Sarpy County ranks #60 of 88 Nebraska counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.4%). Sarpy County, Nebraska contains 192 public highway bridges. Roughly 38.5% are rated “Good,” 52.1% “Fair,” and 9.4% “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.
Good condition
38.5%
74 of 192 rated 7-9
Fair condition
52.1%
100 of 192 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.4%
18 of 192 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#60 of 88
Among Nebraska counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 192 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 38.5% (74)
Fair 52.1% (100)
Poor 9.4% (18)
Sarpy County's Poor-condition bridges carry 168,973 vehicle crossings a day
That is 8.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 9,387 crossings a day against 12,077 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 192 of 192 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
33.9% of Sarpy County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
65 of the 192 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 38.5% 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 34.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US75 over STREAM, built 1988, carries 58,870 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 18-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 168,973 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Sarpy County's bridges were built
192 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 2
1910–1919
2 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
32 bridges
- 1940s 4
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s 13
1950–1959
13 bridges
- 1960s 5
1960–1969
5 bridges
- 1970s 14
1970–1979
14 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
33 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
39 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
28 bridges
- 2010s 10
2010–2019
10 bridges
- 2020s 12
2020–2029
12 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 39 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Nebraska average (1977).
How Sarpy County compares with Nebraska's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Nebraska counties nearest Sarpy County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.4% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 87 Nebraska counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| York County | 205 | 57.6% | 39.5% | 2.9% | 1974 |
| Lincoln County | 197 | 65% | 28.4% | 6.6% | 1976 |
| Sarpy County (this page) | 192 | 38.5% | 52.1% | 9.4% | 1980 |
| Pawnee County | 191 | 37.7% | 27.7% | 34.6% | 1967 |
| Webster County | 191 | 63.9% | 26.7% | 9.4% | 1978 |
| Nemaha County | 179 | 44.1% | 19.6% | 36.3% | 1967 |
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 Sarpy 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 Sarpy County, both outside Nebraska so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NE (192 bridges here).
- Barbour County, AL · 192 bridges
- El Dorado County, CA · 192 bridges
- Santa Cruz County, CA · 192 bridges
- Morgan County, CO · 192 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NE (1980 here).
- Tulsa County, OK · avg 1980 · 1,135 bridges
- Miami-Dade County, FL · avg 1980 · 1,057 bridges
- Pulaski County, AR · avg 1980 · 721 bridges
- McLennan County, TX · avg 1980 · 714 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (18)
CORNHUSKER ROAD
PoorOver: SOUTH PAPILLION CR TRIB
1N .5E GRETNA, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 70
SHILLING DR
PoorOver: UP/BNSF RR 433-019-N
SHILLING DR @ FT CROOK RD, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 2,000
252ND STREET
PoorOver: STREAM
3W 1.4N GRETNA, Sarpy, NE
Built 1910 Load: 5.0 t ADT: 145
168TH STREET
PoorOver: BUFFALO CREEK
2W 1S SPRINGFIELD, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 7.0 t ADT: 130
156TH STREET
PoorOver: BUFFALO CREEK
1W 1.8S SPRINGFIELD, Sarpy, NE
Built 1910 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 90
BUFFALO ROAD
PoorOver: STREAM
2.5S 6W SPRINGFIELD, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 50
234TH ST/COLL 7927
PoorOver: STREAM
1.3S 1.5W GRETNA, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 165
PFLUG ROAD
PoorOver: SPRINGFIELD CREEK
.3S SPRINGFIELD, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 225
RUFF ROAD
PoorOver: BUFFALO CREEK
1.3S 1.6W SPRINGFIELD, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 9.0 t ADT: 35
SCHRAM RD
PoorOver: WEHRSPANN CREEK
.2S 1.9E GRETNA, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 11.0 t ADT: 50
N.B. FT CROOK RD
PoorOver: UP/BNSF/PAPIO 433-017-A
.25S CAPEHART INTERCHG, Sarpy, NE
Built 1956 Load: 15.0 t ADT: 2,303
US75
PoorOver: BETZ CREEK
JCT US75/N370, Sarpy, NE
Built 1989 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 38,095
ACCESS RD
PoorOver: MUD CREEK
150 S JCT AVERY/FT C, Sarpy, NE
Built 1935 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 250
36TH ST/FAS 5061
PoorOver: PAPILLION CREEK
2W OF BELLEVUE, Sarpy, NE
Built 1984 Load: 32.0 t ADT: 9,470
204TH ST
PoorOver: BUFFALO CREEEK
1.8S GRETNA, Sarpy, NE
Built 1985 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 130
US75
PoorOver: STREAM
JCT US75/CRNHUSKER RD .2N, Sarpy, NE
Built 1988 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 58,870
N370
PoorOver: PAPILLION CREEK TRIB
2SE PAPILLION, Sarpy, NE
Built 1995 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 30,705
N50
PoorOver: I80
N50 INTRCHG, Sarpy, NE
Built 1958 Load: 37.0 t ADT: 26,190
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