Total bridges
310
Public highway bridges in Okmulgee County
County profile · official public datasets
310 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 33.2% rated Good, 49.4% Fair, 17.4% Poor.
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Okmulgee 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.
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.
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Okmulgee County ranks #70 of 77 Oklahoma counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 17.4%). Okmulgee County, Oklahoma contains 310 public highway bridges. Roughly 33.2% are rated “Good,” 49.4% “Fair,” and 17.4% “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
310
Public highway bridges in Okmulgee County
Good condition
33.2%
103 of 310 rated 7-9
Fair condition
49.4%
153 of 310 rated 5-6
Poor condition
17.4%
54 of 310 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#70 of 77
Among Oklahoma counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Share of 310 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
That is 1.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 17.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 241 crossings a day against 2,828 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 310 of 310 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
183 of the 310 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 33.2% 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.
FAU 1949 (10 TH) over COAL CREEK, built 1950, carries 2,000 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 54-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 13,000 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
310 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
1900–1909
1 bridges
1920–1929
5 bridges
1930–1939
49 bridges
1940–1949
47 bridges
1950–1959
36 bridges
1960–1969
40 bridges
1970–1979
9 bridges
1980–1989
25 bridges
1990–1999
19 bridges
2000–2009
26 bridges
2010–2019
50 bridges
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 50 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 6 years older than the Oklahoma average of 1977.
The 5 Oklahoma counties nearest Okmulgee County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 17.4% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 8 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 76 Oklahoma counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland County | 316 | 46.2% | 48.7% | 5.1% | 1984 |
| Beckham County | 312 | 71.8% | 27.9% | 0.3% | 1972 |
| Woods County | 310 | 24.5% | 71.6% | 3.9% | 1986 |
| Okmulgee County (this page) | 310 | 33.2% | 49.4% | 17.4% | 1971 |
| Seminole County | 298 | 38.6% | 49.7% | 11.7% | 1966 |
| Kingfisher County | 297 | 23.9% | 69.4% | 6.7% | 1987 |
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 Okmulgee County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Okmulgee County, both outside Oklahoma so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Nearest county inventories outside OK (310 bridges here).
Nearest mean year-built outside OK (1971 here).
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Over: CREEK
.4 MI S OF US 75 BUS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
5.0 N; 1.3 E BEGGS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: FLAT ROCK CREEK
1.S OF PRESTON, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
1.0 N US75; 6.0 W SH52, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CUSSETAH CREEK
1.0 S 4.2 W MORRIS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
1.0 E; 0.1 S SH56-OKF C/L, Okmulgee, OK
Over: COAL CREEK
.1N OF I-40, Okmulgee, OK
Over: COAL CREEK
0.9 SW OF I-40, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
2.0 S 2.5 W US75-TUL C/L, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
0.7 S I-40; 1.0 W C/L, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
3.5 N US62B 1.5 W US75, Okmulgee, OK
Over: LITTLE CANE CR.TRIB.
1.0 W 2.5 S SH16&MSK C/L, Okmulgee, OK
Over: BURGESS CREEK
1.0 S; 0.5 W SCHULTER, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
.3 MI S OF US 75 BUS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CUSSETAH CREEK
1.9 NE US62, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
4.0 E 1.9 S MORRIS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
3.5 S; 3.0 E MORRIS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
3.4 E CREEK C/L, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
6.1 NE SH56, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
3.5 E 5648C, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
2.0 S 0.7 W CRK C/L-US75, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
2.3 W SCHULTER, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CAT CREEK
0.8 E US266, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
4.0 E 2.0 S MORRIS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
5.0 N BEGGS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: MONTEZUMA CREEK
6.2 NE US75 ALT, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
2.1 NE SH56, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CANE CREEK TRIB.
3.0 S SH16, Okmulgee, OK
Over: R.R. UNDER
0.1 W US75 AT PRESTON, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
3.9 SE SH56, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
4.2 E US75, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
1.3 W PRESTON-OLD US75, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
4.3 SE SH16, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
2.7 E SH52, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
2.2 W; 2.0 S US62-MSK C/L, Okmulgee, OK
Over: N. CANADIAN RIVER
.8 MI N CO LINE, Okmulgee, OK
Over: LITTLE CANE CREEK
3.5 W 3.0 S MSK C/L&US16, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
1.1 S 1.0 W SHARP, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
0.1 S COALTON RD, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
2.0 N 1.9 W BEGGS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CANE CREEK
3.0 W 4.5 N US62-MSK C/L, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
3.9 W 1.0 N SH52-SH16, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
0.7 S SH56, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
2.5 E 0.6 N US75-SH16, Okmulgee, OK
Over: ADAMS CREEK
2.7NE OF SH 16, Okmulgee, OK
Over: DEEP FORK RIVER OFLOW
5.9 N SH56, Okmulgee, OK
Over: ADAMS CREEK
1.5 E 0.5 N US75-SH16, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
8.1 N SH56, Okmulgee, OK
Over: CREEK
6.6 NE US75 BUS, Okmulgee, OK
Over: DEEP FORK RIVER
6.7 NE SH56, Okmulgee, OK
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.