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Outagamie County, WI

290 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 49.7% rated Good, 46.2% Fair, 4.1% Poor.

290
Public bridges
49.7%
Good condition
4.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Outagamie County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 29%
lowest Poor share in state
4.1%
Poor-condition share
290
public highway bridges
1982
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.

Outagamie County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Outagamie County ranks #21 of 72 Wisconsin counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.1%). Outagamie County, Wisconsin contains 290 public highway bridges. Roughly 49.7% are rated “Good,” 46.2% “Fair,” and 4.1% “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

290

Public highway bridges in Outagamie County

Good condition

49.7%

144 of 290 rated 7-9

Fair condition

46.2%

134 of 290 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.1%

12 of 290 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#21 of 72

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

Condition distribution

Share of 290 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
49.7% (144)
Fair
46.2% (134)
Poor
4.1% (12)

Outagamie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,778 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,148 crossings a day against 4,846 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 290 of 290 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

33.8% of Outagamie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

98 of the 290 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 49.7% 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 29% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CTH KK over KANKAPOT CREEK, built 1948, carries 3,997 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 13,778 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Outagamie County's bridges were built

290 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 60 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1982) matches the Wisconsin average (1984).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Outagamie County compares with Wisconsin's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Wisconsin counties nearest Outagamie County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.1% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is 5 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 71 Wisconsin counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Outagamie County and the 5 Wisconsin counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Rock County 304 3.6%
Richland County 298 4%
St. Croix County 298 3%
Clark County 296 12.2%
Outagamie County (this page) 290 4.1%
Sauk County 271 8.9%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WI (290 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WI (1982 here).

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

All 290 Good 144 Fair 134 Poor 12

Good-condition bridges (144)

CTH CC

Good

Over: BR APPLE CREEK

0.2M SOUTH STH55, Outagamie, WI

Built 2021 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 1,180

LRD COUNTY LINE RD

Good

Over: BR PLUM CREEK

1.5M N JCT CTH Z, Outagamie, WI

Built 2023 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 49

LRD OSPREY LANE

Good

Over: APPLE CREEK

0.2 MI EAST OF BALLARD RD, Outagamie, WI

Built 2020 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 50

CTH S

Good

Over: WOLF RIVER

1.1M W JCT STH 76, Outagamie, WI

Built 2012 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 2,900

HICKORY DRIVE

Good

Over: BR APPLE CREEK

500 FT W OF ROSE HILL RD, Outagamie, WI

Built 2021 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 450

STH 76

Good

Over: BEAR CREEK

0.3M N JCT CTH MM, Outagamie, WI

Built 1980 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 1,800

STH 47

Good

Over: BLACK CREEK

0.3M N JCT STH 54, Outagamie, WI

Built 1992 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 8,300

LRD MEADE ST

Good

Over: IH 41

0.8M N JCT CTH OO, Outagamie, WI

Built 1996 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 7,400

STH 55-MAIN ST

Good

Over: BLACK CREEK

0.8M N JCT CTH G, Outagamie, WI

Built 2001 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 4,200

LRD OLDE ONEIDA ST

Good

Over: NORTH MILLRACE

0.8M N JCT USH 10, Outagamie, WI

Built 2000 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 5,528

LRD CHERRYVALE AVE

Good

Over: APPLE CREEK

0.5M S. OF CTH JJ, Outagamie, WI

Built 2004 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 1

LRD LAWE ST

Good

Over: POWER CANAL

1.2M S JCT STH 96, Outagamie, WI

Built 1970 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 5,800

LRD NEW RD

Good

Over: BR PLUM CREEK

1.1M E JCT CTH GG, Outagamie, WI

Built 2023 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 49

LRD APPLETON STREE

Good

Over: ENTRANCE TO JONES PARK

APPLETON WI, Outagamie, WI

Built 2019 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 3,600

STH 441 NB

Good

Over: CTH OO

0.8M N JCT STH 96, Outagamie, WI

Built 1993 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 28,200

STH 47

Good

Over: HERMAN CREEK

1.6M N JCT CTH F, Outagamie, WI

Built 1992 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 6,400

CTH D

Good

Over: MAPLE CREEK

1.2M S JCT CTH WW TO W, Outagamie, WI

Built 1995 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 1,025

CTH N

Good

Over: IH 41

0.8M N JCT CTH OO, Outagamie, WI

Built 2002 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 6,700

CTH N WASHINGTON S

Good

Over: FOX RIVER

0.2M N JCT CTH Z, Outagamie, WI

Built 2000 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 15,300

LRD FRENCH ROAD

Good

Over: APPLE CREEK

0.3M N JCT USH 41, Outagamie, WI

Built 1999 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 591

LRD LAWE ST

Good

Over: NAVIGATION CANAL

1.3M S JCT STH 96, Outagamie, WI

Built 1954 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 7,637

LRD GIVENS ROAD

Good

Over: USH 45

5.02 MI N JCT STH 96, Outagamie, WI

Built 2003 Load: 39.4 t ADT: 300

LRD OLD HWY 47

Good

Over: TOAD CREEK

.1M N JCT STH 47, Outagamie, WI

Built 2021 Load: 39.5 t ADT: 99

STH 125-W COLLEGE

Good

Over: MUD CREEK

0.3M E USH 41, Outagamie, WI

Built 2023 Load: 39.5 t ADT: 30,100

LRD RAY RD

Good

Over: BR DUCK CREEK

0.8M E JCT STH 55, Outagamie, WI

Built 2006 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 104

LRD VINE ROAD

Good

Over: DUCK CREEK

0.3M N JCT CTH E, Outagamie, WI

Built 2006 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 1,537

CTH W

Good

Over: BEAR CREEK OVERFLOW

1.9M S JCT STH 76, Outagamie, WI

Built 1991 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 266

LRD LIGHTNING DRIV

Good

Over: AAL TRIBUTARY

0.3M N OF USH 41, Outagamie, WI

Built 2001 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 1,396

LRD CENTER VALLEY

Good

Over: DUCK CREEK

0.1M E JCT CTH EE, Outagamie, WI

Built 2010 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 353

LRD COLLEGE AVE

Good

Over: FOX RIVER

1.2M E JCT USH 10, Outagamie, WI

Built 2009 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 34,155

LRD PROSPECT AVE

Good

Over: LRD JACKMAN ST

.1M W JCT USH 10, Outagamie, WI

Built 2015 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 3,000

USH 45

Good

Over: STH 54-EMBARRASS RIVER

8.0M N JCT CTH M, Outagamie, WI

Built 1994 Load: 43.7 t ADT: 7,700

CTH S

Good

Over: DUCK CREEK

0.3M W JCT STH 55, Outagamie, WI

Built 1993 Load: 43.7 t ADT: 4,200

LRD NEWLAND RD

Good

Over: SHIOC RIVER

1.2M S JCT CTH G, Outagamie, WI

Built 2004 Load: 43.7 t ADT: 84

LRD MALONEY ROAD

Good

Over: BRANCH OF APPLE CREEK

.6 MILES S OF JUNCTION CT, Outagamie, WI

Built 2022 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 53

USH STH 45 NB

Good

Over: LRD CROSS ROAD

4.0M N JCT STH 96, Outagamie, WI

Built 2003 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 5,300

CTH JJ

Good

Over: APPLE CREEK

0.1M W OF FRENCH ROAD, Outagamie, WI

Built 2011 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 4,817

LRD BANTA CT

Good

Over: FOX RIVER POWER CANAL

UNDER COLLEGE AVE BRIDGE, Outagamie, WI

Built 2009 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 1,656

USH 45

Good

Over: GREEN BAY & WESTERN RR

7.7M N JCT CTH M, Outagamie, WI

Built 1994 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 8,900

LRD LAMBIE RD

Good

Over: BR DUCK CREEK

0.1M N JCT CTH EE, Outagamie, WI

Built 1998 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 299

LRD ISLAND STREET

Good

Over: FOX RIVER TAIL RACE

0.1 M N JCT CTH Z, Outagamie, WI

Built 2022 Load: 48.0 t ADT: 6,650

CTH F

Good

Over: EMBARRASS RIVER OVERFLOW

1.4M E JCT STH 76, Outagamie, WI

Built 1977 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 266

LRD BUCHANAN ROAD

Good

Over: BR APPLE CREEK

0.8 M S JCT CTH JJ, Outagamie, WI

Built 2009 Load: 50.2 t ADT: 1,000

STH 76

Good

Over: BEAR CREEK

2.6M N JCT CTH F, Outagamie, WI

Built 2008 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 1,200

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