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Love County, OK

133 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 42.1% rated Good, 56.4% Fair, 1.5% Poor.

133
Public bridges: 42.1%
Good condition: 1.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Love County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 13%
lowest Poor share in state: 1.5%
Poor-condition share: 133
public highway bridges: 1977
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.

Love County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Love County ranks #10 of 77 Oklahoma counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.5%). Love County, Oklahoma contains 133 public highway bridges. Roughly 42.1% are rated “Good,” 56.4% “Fair,” and 1.5% “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

133

Public highway bridges in Love County

Good condition

42.1%

56 of 133 rated 7-9

Fair condition

56.4%

75 of 133 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.5%

2 of 133 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#10 of 77

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

Condition distribution

Share of 133 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

42.1% (56)

Fair

56.4% (75)

Poor

1.5% (2)

Love County's Poor-condition bridges carry 311 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 156 crossings a day against 3,896 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 133 of 133 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

48.9% of Love County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

65 of the 133 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 42.1% 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 67.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

4304C MAJOR over CREEK, built 1939, carries 211 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 311 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

1
1930s

18
1940s

9
1950s

9
1960s

28
1980s

18
1990s

15
2000s

15
2010s

16
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 28 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1977) matches the Oklahoma average (1977).

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

The 5 Oklahoma counties nearest Love County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.5% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1977 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Love County and the 5 Oklahoma counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Coal County	142	38.7%	54.9%	6.3%	1974
Adair County	139	35.3%	50.4%	14.4%	1970
Love County (this page)	133	42.1%	56.4%	1.5%	1977
Murray County	129	46.5%	51.2%	2.3%	1976
Harper County	128	33.6%	64.8%	1.6%	1975
Nowata County	126	44.4%	42.9%	12.7%	1980

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OK (133 bridges here).

Henry County, AL · 133 bridges
Nevada County, AR · 133 bridges
Gordon County, GA · 133 bridges
East Feliciana County, LA · 133 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OK (1977 here).

San Diego County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,632 bridges
King County, WA · avg 1977 · 1,238 bridges
Riverside County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,117 bridges
Shelby County, TN · avg 1977 · 1,077 bridges

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

All 133 Good 56 Fair 75 Poor 2

All bridges (133)

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Love County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Love County's Poor-condition bridges carry 311 vehicle crossings a day

48.9% of Love County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 67.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Love 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 (133)

CO. RD. E210.5

4314C MAJOR

4306C

4322C MAJOR

N3290

E2035

E2035

4334C

N3320

E2040

4304C MAJOR

4332 MAJOR

4304C MAJOR

4336C

S.H. 96

4304C MAJOR

4336C

4332C MAJOR

4332C MAJOR

4304C MAJOR

4308C MAJOR

4328C

FAS 4315

S.H. 77 SCENIC

S.H. 77 SCENIC

4322C MAJOR

S.H. 153

CO. RD. E2130

N3260

S.H. 77 SCENIC

CO. RD. E205

4330C MAJOR

CO. RD. E2150

I-35 SB

I-35 NB

I-35 SB

I-35 NB

I-35 SB

N3200

N3320

I-35 SB

IRR 4344C

IRR 4344C

S.H. 32

4302C

I-35 NB

I-35 SB

4302C

E2075

E2050

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