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Yates County, NY

55 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 58.2% rated Good, 40% Fair, 1.8% Poor.

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55
Public bridges: 58.2%
Good condition: 1.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Yates County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 5%
lowest Poor share in state: 1.8%
Poor-condition share: 55
public highway bridges: 1985
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.

Yates County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Yates County ranks #3 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.8%). Yates County, New York contains 55 public highway bridges. Roughly 58.2% are rated “Good,” 40% “Fair,” and 1.8% “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 Yates County

Good condition

58.2%

32 of 55 rated 7-9

Fair condition

40%

22 of 55 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.8%

1 of 55 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#3 of 62

Among New York counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 55 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

58.2% (32)

Fair

40% (22)

Poor

1.8% (1)

Yates County's Poor-condition bridges carry 24 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 24 crossings a day against 1,087 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 55 of 55 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

20% of Yates County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

11 of the 55 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 58.2% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

GIBSON ROAD over TRIB BIG STREAM, built 1926, carries 24 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 24 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

1
1920s

1
1930s

6
1950s

1
1960s

1
1970s

4
1980s

11
1990s

13
2000s

6
2010s

10
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 13 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1985, 13 years newer than the New York average of 1972.

How Yates County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 New York counties nearest Yates County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.8% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1985 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is 15 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Yates County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Schuyler County	100	40%	55%	5%	1983
Fulton County	98	34.7%	50%	15.3%	1958
Wayne County	97	48.5%	41.2%	10.3%	1974
Hamilton County	88	34.1%	51.1%	14.8%	1970
Seneca County	60	31.7%	43.3%	25%	1964
Yates County (this page)	55	58.2%	40%	1.8%	1985

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 Yates 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 Yates County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (55 bridges here).

Park County, CO · 55 bridges
Dixie County, FL · 55 bridges
Winnebago County, IA · 55 bridges
Logan County, KS · 55 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1985 here).

Hillsborough County, FL · avg 1985 · 840 bridges
Lancaster County, NE · avg 1985 · 661 bridges
Nueces County, TX · avg 1985 · 528 bridges
Grayson County, TX · avg 1985 · 513 bridges

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

All 55 Good 32 Fair 22 Poor 1

Good-condition bridges (32)

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Yates County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Yates County's Poor-condition bridges carry 24 vehicle crossings a day

20% of Yates County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Yates County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Good-condition bridges (32)

GLENORA ROAD

MAIN STREET

OLD EAST LAKE RD.

PHELPS ROAD

COUNTY ROAD 18

COUNTY ROAD 24

RTE 230

WILLIAM STREET

CHERRY STREET

VINE VALLEY ROAD

SOUTH GLENORA ROAD

ITALY VALLEY ROAD

RTE 364

SOUTH AVENUE

RTE 245

RTE 245

RTE 14

RTE 54

COUNTY ROAD 24

SUNNYSIDE ROAD

FOX MILL ROAD

CASTLE POINT ROAD

RTE 14A

COLEMAN ROAD

MOON HILL ROAD

THISTLE STREET

LOOMIS ROAD

COUNTY ROAD 29

CR 26

COUNTY ROAD 18

E SHERMAN HOLLOW R

WEST AVENUE

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