Total bridges
199
Public highway bridges in McIntosh County
County profile · official public datasets
McIntosh County, OK
199 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 31.2% rated Good, 62.3% Fair, 6.5% Poor.
- 199
- Public bridges
- 31.2%
- Good condition
- 6.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
McIntosh 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.
- 41st
- of 77 on Poor share
- 6.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 199
- public highway bridges
- 1969
- 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.
McIntosh County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, McIntosh County ranks #41 of 77 Oklahoma counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.5%). McIntosh County, Oklahoma contains 199 public highway bridges. Roughly 31.2% are rated “Good,” 62.3% “Fair,” and 6.5% “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.
Good condition
31.2%
62 of 199 rated 7-9
Fair condition
62.3%
124 of 199 rated 5-6
Poor condition
6.5%
13 of 199 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#41 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 31.2% (62)
Fair 62.3% (124)
Poor 6.5% (13)
McIntosh County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,381 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 183 crossings a day against 2,801 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.
69.3% of McIntosh County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
138 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 31.2% 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 54.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
S.H. 9 over WALLACE CREEK, built 1937, carries 1,300 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 13-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 2,381 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When McIntosh County's bridges were built
199 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
27 bridges
- 1940s 13
1940–1949
13 bridges
- 1950s 6
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
62 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
40 bridges
- 1980s 15
1980–1989
15 bridges
- 1990s 10
1990–1999
10 bridges
- 2000s 7
2000–2009
7 bridges
- 2010s 14
2010–2019
14 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 62 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 31.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1969, 8 years older than the Oklahoma average of 1977.
How McIntosh County compares with Oklahoma's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Oklahoma counties nearest McIntosh County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.5% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1969 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 6 years older.
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 |
| Latimer County | 199 | 58.8% | 35.2% | 6% | 1975 |
| McIntosh County (this page) | 199 | 31.2% | 62.3% | 6.5% | 1969 |
| 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 McIntosh 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 McIntosh 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 (1969 here).
- Cook County, IL · avg 1969 · 1,721 bridges
- Fresno County, CA · avg 1969 · 916 bridges
- Cuyahoga County, OH · avg 1969 · 871 bridges
- Ventura County, CA · avg 1969 · 501 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (13)
N4010
PoorOver: CREEK
2.3N;1E OF HANNA, McIntosh, OK
Built 1940 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 100
E1030
PoorOver: PUTTY CREEK
1E OF HITCHITA, McIntosh, OK
Built 1945 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 100
N4140
PoorOver: CREEK
.1N;1E OF CARTERS CORNER, McIntosh, OK
Built 1950 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 200
E1159
PoorOver: CREEK
9N 1.7W OF HANNA, McIntosh, OK
Built 1939 Load: 9.8 t ADT: 100
E1060
PoorOver: CREEK
1S & 1.5W OF SHADY GROVE, McIntosh, OK
Built 1989 Load: 10.0 t ADT: 50
N4000
PoorOver: CREEK
5.5N .1W OF HANNA, McIntosh, OK
Built 1939 Load: 10.9 t ADT: 51
4628C
PoorOver: CREEK
2.1 MI W HANNA, McIntosh, OK
Built 1940 Load: 14.2 t ADT: 75
E1190
PoorOver: WALLACE CREEK
1.4N;.5E OF RAIFORD, McIntosh, OK
Built 1940 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 100
4616C
PoorOver: DUCHESS CREEK
3.5S;4.1E OF CHECOTAH, McIntosh, OK
Built 1940 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 75
E1010
PoorOver: GENTRY CREEK
.3S 1.5W OF COUNCIL HILL, McIntosh, OK
Built 1911 Load: 18.0 t ADT: 100
N4230
PoorOver: SHADY GROVE CREEK
.2N;2E OF CHECOTAH, McIntosh, OK
Built 1982 Load: 20.9 t ADT: 100
E1020
PoorOver: GRAVEL CREEK
2.1W 1N OF HITCHITA, McIntosh, OK
Built 2008 Load: 21.2 t ADT: 30
S.H. 9
PoorOver: WALLACE CREEK
6.2 E JCT SH-52, McIntosh, OK
Built 1937 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 1,300
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