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Wagoner County, OK

254 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 52.8% rated Good, 40.9% Fair, 6.3% Poor.

254
Public bridges: 52.8%
Good condition: 6.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 47%
lowest Poor share in state: 6.3%
Poor-condition share: 254
public highway bridges: 1986
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.

Wagoner County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wagoner County ranks #36 of 77 Oklahoma counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.3%). Wagoner County, Oklahoma contains 254 public highway bridges. Roughly 52.8% are rated “Good,” 40.9% “Fair,” and 6.3% “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

254

Public highway bridges in Wagoner County

Good condition

52.8%

134 of 254 rated 7-9

Fair condition

40.9%

104 of 254 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.3%

16 of 254 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#36 of 77

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

Condition distribution

Share of 254 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

52.8% (134)

Fair

40.9% (104)

Poor

6.3% (16)

Wagoner County's Poor-condition bridges carry 6,640 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 415 crossings a day against 4,028 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 254 of 254 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

33.5% of Wagoner County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

85 of the 254 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 52.8% 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 51.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

OLD S.H. 72 (S289) over COWETA CREEK, built 1922, carries 3,440 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 16-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 6,640 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

2
1930s

7
1940s

17
1950s

11
1960s

39
1970s

12
1980s

28
1990s

28
2000s

73
2010s

32
2020s

5

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 73 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1986, 9 years newer than the Oklahoma average of 1977.

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

The 5 Oklahoma counties nearest Wagoner County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.3% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1986 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is 9 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Wagoner County and the 5 Oklahoma counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Major County	266	19.2%	72.6%	8.3%	1987
McCurtain County	265	54.3%	34%	11.7%	1970
Sequoyah County	263	37.3%	58.2%	4.6%	1975
Wagoner County (this page)	254	52.8%	40.9%	6.3%	1986
Pushmataha County	247	63.2%	32%	4.9%	1972
McClain County	242	40.9%	54.5%	4.5%	1983

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside OK (254 bridges here).

Manatee County, FL · 254 bridges
Ottawa County, MI · 254 bridges
Coos County, OR · 254 bridges
Adams County, PA · 254 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside OK (1986 here).

El Paso County, TX · avg 1986 · 783 bridges
Caddo County, LA · avg 1986 · 682 bridges
Weld County, CO · avg 1986 · 614 bridges
Polk County, IA · avg 1986 · 545 bridges

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

All 254 Good 134 Fair 104 Poor 16

Fair-condition bridges (104)

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Wagoner County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Wagoner County's Poor-condition bridges carry 6,640 vehicle crossings a day

33.5% of Wagoner County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 51.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Wagoner 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

Fair-condition bridges (104)

S.H. 51 B

E0590

ALBANY (61ST ST)

U.S. 69

S.H. 51

S.H. 51

257TH E AVE

KENOSHA ST.

KENOSHA ST.

FAS 7322

KENOSHA ST.

S.H. 51

E0750

FOREST RIDGE

HOUSTON

N4100 (N ONETA RD)

E0687

U.S. 69

E0830

S.H. 51 WB

U.S. 69

U.S. 69

FAS 7324

S.H. 16

U.S. 69

S.H. 51

S.H. 51

S.H. 51

S.H. 51

E0820

S.H. 51 WB

E0770

U.S. 69

FAS 7322

N4120

U.S. 69 NB

U.S. 69 SB

S.H. 51

S.H. 51

S.H. 72

S.H. 51/COWETA INT

S.H. 16

U.S. 69

Co. Rd. N4200

E0810 221ST ST

S.H. 72

CO. RD. N4140

CO. RD. N4200

MC 73-36C

N4155

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