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Kingfisher County, OK

297 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 23.9% rated Good, 69.4% Fair, 6.7% Poor.

297
Public bridges
23.9%
Good condition
6.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

42nd
of 77 on Poor share
6.7%
Poor-condition share
297
public highway bridges
1987
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.

Kingfisher County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Kingfisher County ranks #42 of 77 Oklahoma counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.7%). Kingfisher County, Oklahoma contains 297 public highway bridges. Roughly 23.9% are rated “Good,” 69.4% “Fair,” and 6.7% “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

297

Public highway bridges in Kingfisher County

Good condition

23.9%

71 of 297 rated 7-9

Fair condition

69.4%

206 of 297 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.7%

20 of 297 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#42 of 77

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

Condition distribution

Share of 297 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
23.9% (71)
Fair
69.4% (206)
Poor
6.7% (20)

Kingfisher County's Poor-condition bridges carry 7,557 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 378 crossings a day against 1,161 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 297 of 297 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

28.6% of Kingfisher County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

85 of the 297 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 23.9% 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 33.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

U.S. 81 over UP R.R. UNDER, built 1964, carries 2,500 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 20-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 7,557 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Kingfisher County's bridges were built

297 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 59 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1987, 10 years newer than the Oklahoma average of 1977.

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

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

The 5 Oklahoma counties nearest Kingfisher County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1987 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is 15 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Kingfisher County and the 5 Oklahoma counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Okmulgee County 310 17.4%
Woods County 310 3.9%
Seminole County 298 11.7%
Kingfisher County (this page) 297 6.7%
Jackson County 292 2.4%
Bryan County 286 9.8%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OK (297 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OK (1987 here).

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

All 297 Good 71 Fair 206 Poor 20

Poor-condition bridges (20)

E0760

Poor

Over: KINGFISHER CREEK

3.7N 3.2E OF KINGFISHER, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1928 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 330

N2860

Poor

Over: CLEAR CREEK

4E 3.4N OF OKARCHE, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1940 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 25

N2800

Poor

Over: PREACHER CREEK

4E 5.1S OF LACEY, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1950 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 24

N2860

Poor

Over: CREEK

4E 5.1N OF OKARCHE, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1980 Load: 8.2 t ADT: 50

E0610

Poor

Over: TURKEY CREEK

.5W 1.5N 1.4W HENNESSEY, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1988 Load: 8.2 t ADT: 25

E0715

Poor

Over: TURKEY CREEK OFLOW

.3W .2S .5W OF DOVER, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1960 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 600

N2740

Poor

Over: CREEK

3E 2.5N OF ALTONA, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1966 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 754

N2990

Poor

Over: COTTONWOOD CREEK

2.2S OF CASHION, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1955 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 671

E0715

Poor

Over: TURKEY CREEK

.3W .2S .3W OF DOVER, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1960 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 600

E0790

Poor

Over: OTTER CREEK

2.2E OF OMEGA, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1916 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 100

E0720

Poor

Over: COOPER CREEK

.1S .2W OF LOYAL, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1957 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 706

N2700

Poor

Over: SALT CREEK

6W .9S OF LACEY, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1958 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 349

E0660

Poor

Over: CREEK

3.5S 11.4E OF HENNESSEY, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1962 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 52

N2860

Poor

Over: KINGFISHER CREEK

1.5E 2.5N OF US81/SH33, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1984 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 150

E0630

Poor

Over: TURKEY CREEK

.5S 1.2W OF HENNESSEY, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

N2710

Poor

Over: COOPER CREEK

3W .5N OF LOYAL, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1950 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 24

E0730

Poor

Over: CREEK

1.7S 10.8E OF DOVER, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1945 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 250

U.S. 81

Poor

Over: UP R.R. UNDER

5.3 MI N JCT SH 33, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1964 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 2,500

E0800

Poor

Over: UNCLE JOHN CREEK

.4E OF US 81 ON BOWMAN, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1984 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 197

N2900

Poor

Over: TRAIL CREEK

8E 6.4N OF OKARCHE, Kingfisher, OK

Built 1950 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 50

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.