Total bridges
254
Public highway bridges in Wagoner County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
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.
When Wagoner County's bridges were built
254 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 7
1930–1939
7 bridges
- 1940s 17
1940–1949
17 bridges
- 1950s 11
1950–1959
11 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
39 bridges
- 1970s 12
1970–1979
12 bridges
- 1980s 28
1980–1989
28 bridges
- 1990s 28
1990–1999
28 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
73 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
32 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
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.
| 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.
Poor-condition bridges (16)
FAS 7333
PoorOver: CREEK
2.5S & 2.9E OF PORTER, Wagoner, OK
Built 1929 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 55
E0760
PoorOver: GAR CREEK
3.0 N & 2.6 W OF PORTER, Wagoner, OK
Built 1940 Load: 4.5 t ADT: 24
N4270
PoorOver: BIG CREEK
0.5W US69; O.7N TURNPIKE, Wagoner, OK
Built 1950 Load: 4.9 t ADT: 50
E0800
PoorOver: CREEK
0.5MI.N.SH.16&SH.125INT., Wagoner, OK
Built 1945 Load: 11.1 t ADT: 100
E0730
PoorOver: CREEK
0.5N SH51 W OF MUSK TRNPK, Wagoner, OK
Built 1965 Load: 13.8 t ADT: 50
N4210
PoorOver: CREEK
1.OS SH 51 & 1.0W VERD RV, Wagoner, OK
Built 1950 Load: 13.9 t ADT: 50
OLD S.H. 72 (S289)
PoorOver: COWETA CREEK
6.1N OF MUSKOGEE CO, Wagoner, OK
Built 1922 Load: 14.2 t ADT: 3,440
E0670
PoorOver: CREEK
6.0N SH 51; 5.5W US 69, Wagoner, OK
Built 1945 Load: 17.4 t ADT: 50
7358C
PoorOver: CREEK
4.1E TULSA CL; ON 131ST, Wagoner, OK
Built 1940 Load: 18.0 t ADT: 350
E0710
PoorOver: BILLY CREEK
2.0 N SH 51; 3.0W US 69, Wagoner, OK
Built 1940 Load: 18.2 t ADT: 50
7334C
PoorOver: YELLOW WATER DITCH
2.0E & 5.6S SH51B/104 INT, Wagoner, OK
Built 1949 Load: 18.2 t ADT: 200
7334C
PoorOver: CREEK
0.7S SH 51B; 3.0W PORTER, Wagoner, OK
Built 1939 Load: 18.8 t ADT: 361
N4120
PoorOver: SALT CREEK
.8S ROGERS CL, Wagoner, OK
Built 1985 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 480
E0600
PoorOver: SPUNKY CREEK
0.4E TUL CL; 1.0S ROG CL, Wagoner, OK
Built 1989 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 300
E0736
PoorOver: COWETA CREEK
0.5W COWETA ON E. 146 ST., Wagoner, OK
Built 1990 Load: 24.6 t ADT: 250
SPLWY BRDG OK 251A
PoorOver: FT GIBSON L GRAND R SPWY
15 MI. NE. MUSKOGEE, Wagoner, OK
Built 1953 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 830
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