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Cleveland County, OK

316 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.2% rated Good, 48.7% Fair, 5.1% Poor.

Compiled by PlainBridges

316
Public bridges: 46.2%
Good condition: 5.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Cleveland County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 40%
lowest Poor share in state: 5.1%
Poor-condition share: 316
public highway bridges: 1984
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.

Cleveland County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cleveland County ranks #31 of 77 Oklahoma counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.1%). Cleveland County, Oklahoma contains 316 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.2% are rated “Good,” 48.7% “Fair,” and 5.1% “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

316

Public highway bridges in Cleveland County

Good condition

46.2%

146 of 316 rated 7-9

Fair condition

48.7%

154 of 316 rated 5-6

Poor condition

5.1%

16 of 316 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#31 of 77

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

Condition distribution

Share of 316 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

46.2% (146)

Fair

48.7% (154)

Poor

5.1% (16)

Cleveland County's Poor-condition bridges carry 45,283 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,830 crossings a day against 7,932 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 316 of 316 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

29.1% of Cleveland County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

92 of the 316 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 46.2% 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 24.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SW 119TH ST. over CREEK, built 1979, carries 10,900 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 16-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 45,283 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

10
1940s

22
1950s

17
1960s

29
1970s

34
1980s

74
1990s

40
2000s

43
2010s

39
2020s

7

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 74 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1984, 7 years newer than the Oklahoma average of 1977.

How Cleveland County compares with Oklahoma's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Oklahoma counties nearest Cleveland County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.1% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is 10 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 76 Oklahoma counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Cleveland County and the 5 Oklahoma counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Garvin County	330	39.4%	49.7%	10.9%	1977
Cleveland County (this page)	316	46.2%	48.7%	5.1%	1984
Beckham County	312	71.8%	27.9%	0.3%	1972
Okmulgee County	310	33.2%	49.4%	17.4%	1971
Woods County	310	24.5%	71.6%	3.9%	1986
Seminole County	298	38.6%	49.7%	11.7%	1966

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OK (316 bridges here).

Buchanan County, IA · 316 bridges
Jefferson County, NY · 316 bridges
Gwinnett County, GA · 317 bridges
Cherokee County, KS · 317 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OK (1984 here).

Hennepin County, MN · avg 1984 · 936 bridges
Duval County, FL · avg 1984 · 831 bridges
El Paso County, CO · avg 1984 · 686 bridges
Bell County, TX · avg 1984 · 660 bridges

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

All 316 Good 146 Fair 154 Poor 16

All bridges (316)

Sort:

S.H. 9

Fair

Over: CREEK

4.4 MI E JCT US77, Cleveland, OK

Built 1963 Load: 85.3 t ADT: 9,100

108TH AVE SE

Fair

Over: EAST WILLOW CREEK

0.3 S YORK RD, Cleveland, OK

Built 1997 Load: 88.0 t ADT: 100

W ROCK CREEK RD

Fair

Over: CREEK

0.6 W 48TH AVE NW, Cleveland, OK

Built 1942 Load: 90.4 t ADT: 3,366

E. BOOMER ST.

Fair

Over: CREEK

0.2 E S MAIN ST, Cleveland, OK

Cleveland County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Cleveland County's Poor-condition bridges carry 45,283 vehicle crossings a day

29.1% of Cleveland County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 24.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Cleveland County compares with Oklahoma'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 (316)

S.H. 9

108TH AVE SE

W ROCK CREEK RD

E. BOOMER ST.

SLAUGHTERVILLE RD

LINDSEY ST.

12TH AVE NW

BRYANT RD.

EDGE OF EARTH RD

IRR-120TH AVE

E1170 (SE 149)

WESTERN AVE.

SW 119TH ST.

SW 119TH ST.

WESTERN AVE.

CEDAR VALLEY

E1160 (SE 134TH)

E1140 (SE 104)

E1170 (SE 149TH)

COUNCIL RD.

SW 124TH ST.

CRYSTAL GARDENS PL

N3060 (PENN AVE.)

E1163 (SW 137TH)

E1140 (SW 104TH)

MOFFATT RD

96TH AVE SE

72ND AVE SE

E BROOKS ST

FRANKLIN RD

WILLOW BRANCH RD

72ND AVE SE

CROSSROADS BLVD

156TH AVE SE

CRESTMONT ST

E ALAMEDA ST

E ALAMEDA ST

E. ROCK CREEK RD.

36TH ST. NW

N3070 (60TH AVE)

SE 19TH ST

NE 23RD ST

SW 25TH ST.

OLD BRYANT AVE

N3090 (TELEPHONE)

E1165 (SW 11TH ST)

E1168 (SW 17TH)

U.S. 77

LEWIS RD

192ND AVE SE

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