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Creek County, OK

395 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.5% rated Good, 38.7% Fair, 20.8% Poor.

395
Public bridges
40.5%
Good condition
20.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Creek County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

76th
of 77 on Poor share
20.8%
Poor-condition share
395
public highway bridges
1972
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.

Creek County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Creek County ranks #76 of 77 Oklahoma counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 20.8%). Creek County, Oklahoma contains 395 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.5% are rated “Good,” 38.7% “Fair,” and 20.8% “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

395

Public highway bridges in Creek County

Good condition

40.5%

160 of 395 rated 7-9

Fair condition

38.7%

153 of 395 rated 5-6

Poor condition

20.8%

82 of 395 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#76 of 77

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

Condition distribution

Share of 395 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
40.5% (160)
Fair
38.7% (153)
Poor
20.8% (82)

Creek County's Poor-condition bridges carry 10,085 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 20.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 123 crossings a day against 5,408 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 395 of 395 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

51.1% of Creek County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

202 of the 395 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 40.5% 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 13.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

N3870 over CREEK, built 1939, carries 1,350 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 82-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 10,085 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Creek County's bridges were built

395 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 77 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 5 years older than the Oklahoma average of 1977.

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

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

The 5 Oklahoma counties nearest Creek County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 20.8% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1972 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 9 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Creek County and the 5 Oklahoma counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Pottawatomie County 408 6.4%
Muskogee County 398 10.1%
Creek County (this page) 395 20.8%
Alfalfa County 387 6.5%
Custer County 384 1.3%
Payne County 384 10.4%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OK (395 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OK (1972 here).

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

All 395 Good 160 Fair 153 Poor 82

Poor-condition bridges (82)

E0880

Poor

Over: CREEK

1S 2.3E MILFAY, Creek, OK

Built 1950 Load: 14.8 t ADT: 100

N3770

Poor

Over: CREEK

5 E OF BELLVUE, Creek, OK

Built 1938 Load: 15.1 t ADT: 100

E0900

Poor

Over: CREEK

5.3W OF GYPSY, Creek, OK

Built 1936 Load: 17.1 t ADT: 100

E0590

Poor

Over: CREEK

3N 2.6W OF SH99/SH51, Creek, OK

Built 1948 Load: 17.3 t ADT: 100

1ST ST.

Poor

Over: TIGER CREEK

1ST ST & OHIO AVE, Creek, OK

Built 1936 Load: 17.6 t ADT: 150

WOOD ST.

Poor

Over: TIGER CREEK

WOOD ST & OHIO AVE, Creek, OK

Built 1936 Load: 17.6 t ADT: 150

E0820

Poor

Over: LITTLE DEEP FORK CREEK

.4W 1.5N 1.1W OF DEPEW, Creek, OK

Built 1990 Load: 18.9 t ADT: 100

N3870

Poor

Over: CREEK

3W 2.2S OF US75ALT/SH67, Creek, OK

Built 1939 Load: 19.3 t ADT: 1,350

N3690

Poor

Over: CREEK

3W 4.2N OF BELLVUE, Creek, OK

Built 1939 Load: 19.6 t ADT: 100

N3620

Poor

Over: CREEK

1.5 MI N OF MILFAY, Creek, OK

Built 1939 Load: 19.6 t ADT: 372

E0640

Poor

Over: COTTONWOOD CREEK

4.2E OF SILVER CITY, Creek, OK

Built 2012 Load: 19.6 t ADT: 100

N3780

Poor

Over: CREEK

3.5W 1.1S OF KELLYVILLE, Creek, OK

Built 1930 Load: 19.9 t ADT: 100

E0820

Poor

Over: CREEK

.5S 4.5E OF BRISTOW, Creek, OK

Built 1930 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 50

E0890

Poor

Over: CREEK

1N .8E OF NEWBY, Creek, OK

Built 1938 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 100

E0810

Poor

Over: CREEK

2.3W 2.7N OF DEPEW, Creek, OK

Built 1940 Load: 23.9 t ADT: 100

E0870

Poor

Over: CREEK

5.5S .4E OF BRISTOW, Creek, OK

Built 1938 Load: 24.7 t ADT: 100

E0850

Poor

Over: CREEK

3.5S .3E OF BRISTOW, Creek, OK

Built 1930 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 200

E0640

Poor

Over: SAND CREEK

.7E OF SILVER CITY, Creek, OK

Built 1935 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 175

N3779

Poor

Over: NEVERSWEAT CREEK

3.6W 2.3S OF KELLYVILLE, Creek, OK

Built 1940 Load: 26.9 t ADT: 100

E0900

Poor

Over: BACHELOR CREEK

.7W OF GYPSY, Creek, OK

Built 1948 Load: 28.3 t ADT: 100

E0700 (LINE ST.

Poor

Over: ROCK CREEK

.4N 1.W OF SAPULPA, Creek, OK

Built 1984 Load: 31.3 t ADT: 100

N3650

Poor

Over: CREEK

3W .1S OF GYPSY, Creek, OK

Built 1941 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 100

N3670

Poor

Over: CREEK

5.6S OF OLIVE, Creek, OK

Built 1936 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 50

N3670

Poor

Over: CREEK

5.7S OF OLIVE, Creek, OK

Built 1936 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 50

E0590

Poor

Over: CREEK

3N 1.2W JCT SH51/SH99, Creek, OK

Built 2006 Load: 40.7 t ADT: 100

E0940

Poor

Over: CREEK

4S .2E OF GYPSY, Creek, OK

Built 1996 Load: 44.3 t ADT: 100

N3670

Poor

Over: CREEK

2.3S OF OLIVE, Creek, OK

Built 1984 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 75

N3805

Poor

Over: CREEK

4.5S 1W OF KELLYVILLE, Creek, OK

Built 1962 Load: 51.4 t ADT: 200

E0765

Poor

Over: CREEK

3.5E 2.5S OF KELLYVILLE, Creek, OK

Built 2005 Load: 55.4 t ADT: 200

E0630

Poor

Over: CREEK

7N .4E OF SH33/ SH48, Creek, OK

Built 1995 Load: 55.6 t ADT: 100

E0770

Poor

Over: MOUNTAIN CREEK

3S 1E OF KELLYVILLE, Creek, OK

Built 1997 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 100

E0900

Poor

Over: EAST FORK SANDY CREEK

.4E OF NEWBY, Creek, OK

Built 2011 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 100

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