Total bridges
199
Public highway bridges in Latimer County
County profile · official public datasets
Latimer County, OK
199 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 58.8% rated Good, 35.2% Fair, 6% Poor.
- 199
- Public bridges
- 58.8%
- Good condition
- 6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Latimer County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 45%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 6%
- Poor-condition share
- 199
- public highway bridges
- 1975
- 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.
Latimer County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Latimer County ranks #35 of 77 Oklahoma counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6%). Latimer County, Oklahoma contains 199 public highway bridges. Roughly 58.8% are rated “Good,” 35.2% “Fair,” and 6% “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
58.8%
117 of 199 rated 7-9
Fair condition
35.2%
70 of 199 rated 5-6
Poor condition
6%
12 of 199 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#35 of 77
Among Oklahoma counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 199 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 58.8% (117)
Fair 35.2% (70)
Poor 6% (12)
Latimer County's Poor-condition bridges carry 689 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 57 crossings a day against 738 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 199 of 199 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
40.2% of Latimer County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
80 of the 199 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 58.8% 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 14.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
N4320 over BANDY CREEK, built 1969, carries 100 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 689 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Latimer County's bridges were built
199 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
40 bridges
- 1940s 17
1940–1949
17 bridges
- 1950s 10
1950–1959
10 bridges
- 1960s 6
1960–1969
6 bridges
- 1970s 11
1970–1979
11 bridges
- 1980s 17
1980–1989
17 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
49 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
21 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
25 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 49 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Oklahoma average (1977).
How Latimer County compares with Oklahoma's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Oklahoma counties nearest Latimer County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 76 Oklahoma counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hughes County | 207 | 42% | 49.3% | 8.7% | 1978 |
| Cherokee County | 206 | 35% | 54.4% | 10.7% | 1978 |
| Okfuskee County | 204 | 39.7% | 53.4% | 6.9% | 1970 |
| McIntosh County | 199 | 31.2% | 62.3% | 6.5% | 1969 |
| Latimer County (this page) | 199 | 58.8% | 35.2% | 6% | 1975 |
| Beaver County | 189 | 32.3% | 66.7% | 1.1% | 1976 |
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 Latimer 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 Latimer County, both outside Oklahoma so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside OK (199 bridges here).
- Montgomery County, AR · 199 bridges
- Warren County, IL · 199 bridges
- Dallas County, IA · 199 bridges
- Leake County, MS · 199 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside OK (1975 here).
- San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
- Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
- Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
- Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (12)
N4416
PoorOver: SPRING CREEK
ON HANEY HOLLOW ROAD, Latimer, OK
Built 1998 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 40
E1590
PoorOver: CREEK
2.0 E YANUSH, Latimer, OK
Built 1991 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 25
N4320
PoorOver: BANDY CREEK
.5 W .1 S OF US 270 & SH2, Latimer, OK
Built 1969 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 100
3924C
PoorOver: ANDERSON CREEK
4.3 W YANUSH, Latimer, OK
Built 1981 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 100
N4330 DILL DR
PoorOver: CREEK
0.5 W; 1.0 N YANUSH, Latimer, OK
Built 1992 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 25
N4340 RD
PoorOver: CREEK
0.5 E; 1.6 S YANUSH, Latimer, OK
Built 1992 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 25
N4375 RD
PoorOver: CEDAR CREEK
4.0 E; 0.4 S YANUSH, Latimer, OK
Built 1994 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 50
AIRPORT RD.
PoorOver: JACKSON CREEK
1.3 W; 1.7 S TALIHINA, Latimer, OK
Built 1994 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 50
E1495
PoorOver: CREEK
1.0 W; & 0.5 S. OF DAMON, Latimer, OK
Built 1994 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 100
N4355 RD
PoorOver: CREEK
2.0 E; 1.5 S YANUSH, Latimer, OK
Built 1996 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 24
N4377
PoorOver: CREEK
4.1 E; 1.8 S YANUSH, Latimer, OK
Built 1996 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 50
3922C
PoorOver: CREEK
9.0 W; 1.5 S YANUSH, Latimer, OK
Built 1981 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 100
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