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Taylor County, WI

176 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 58.5% rated Good, 30.1% Fair, 11.4% Poor.

176
Public bridges
58.5%
Good condition
11.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

63rd
of 72 on Poor share
11.4%
Poor-condition share
176
public highway bridges
1988
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.

Taylor County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Taylor County ranks #63 of 72 Wisconsin counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 11.4%). Taylor County, Wisconsin contains 176 public highway bridges. Roughly 58.5% are rated “Good,” 30.1% “Fair,” and 11.4% “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

176

Public highway bridges in Taylor County

Good condition

58.5%

103 of 176 rated 7-9

Fair condition

30.1%

53 of 176 rated 5-6

Poor condition

11.4%

20 of 176 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#63 of 72

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

Condition distribution

Share of 176 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
58.5% (103)
Fair
30.1% (53)
Poor
11.4% (20)

Taylor County's Poor-condition bridges carry 7,596 vehicle crossings a day

That is 6.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 11.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 380 crossings a day against 483 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 176 of 176 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

23.9% of Taylor County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

42 of the 176 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 58.5% 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 25% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

STH 64 over BLACK RIVER, built 1953, carries 1,900 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 20-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 7,596 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Taylor County's bridges were built

176 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 33 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1988) matches the Wisconsin average (1984).

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

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

The 5 Wisconsin counties nearest Taylor County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 11.4% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Taylor County and the 5 Wisconsin counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Columbia County 183 6%
Jefferson County 182 5.5%
Portage County 182 2.7%
Taylor County (this page) 176 11.4%
Juneau County 172 2.9%
Waupaca County 169 3%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WI (176 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WI (1988 here).

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

All 176 Good 103 Fair 53 Poor 20

All bridges (176)

LRD APPLE LANE

Fair

Over: BLACK RIVER

3.1M W JCT STH 13, Taylor, WI

Built 1974 Load: 13.0 t ADT: 92

FR112

Fair

Over: S. FK YELLOW RIVER

4.0 M. N. JCT CTH M., Taylor, WI

Built 1953 Load: 14.3 t ADT: 30

LRD PERKINS ST

Fair

Over: BLACK RIVER

0.1M S JCT STH 64, Taylor, WI

Built 1964 Load: 16.2 t ADT: 3,997

LRD 8TH AVE

Fair

Over: N FK EAU CLAIRE RIVER

1.3M N CLARK CO LINE, Taylor, WI

Built 1930 Load: 16.2 t ADT: 87

CTH A

Fair

Over: PINE CREEK

2.2M E JCT CTH DD, Taylor, WI

Built 1962 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 553

LRD SETTLEMENT DR

Fair

Over: BLACK RIVER

1.2M W JCT STH 13, Taylor, WI

Built 1979 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 58

STH 13

Fair

Over: TRIB. TO BLACK RIVER

0.2 MI N OF JCT CTH M, Taylor, WI

Built 1986 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 4,900

CTH H

Fair

Over: SHOULDER CREEK

1.2M S JCT STH 194, Taylor, WI

Built 1975 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 246

LRD SPRING DR

Fair

Over: SPRING CREEK

1.4M N JCT STH 64, Taylor, WI

Built 1920 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 92

CTH D

Fair

Over: SILVER CREEK

0.8M W JCT STH 13, Taylor, WI

Built 1960 Load: 21.1 t ADT: 297

CTH M

Fair

Over: BIG RIB RIVER

2.3M E JCT CTH C, Taylor, WI

Built 1963 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 451

STH 64-BROADWAY AV

Fair

Over: BLACK RIVER

1.4M E JCT CTH Q, Taylor, WI

Built 1935 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 11,235

LRD ZIMMERMAN RD

Fair

Over: SILVER CREEK

0.7M N JCT CTH D, Taylor, WI

Built 1975 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 47

FR121

Fair

Over: YELLOW RIVER

0.1 M. E. JCT CTH G, Taylor, WI

Built 1969 Load: 23.0 t ADT: 50

STH 13

Fair

Over: SILVER CREEK

3.8M N JCT STH 102, Taylor, WI

Built 1974 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 2,700

LRD WOOD CREEK AVE

Fair

Over: WOOD CREEK

1.8M E JCT CTH C, Taylor, WI

Built 1950 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 58

LRD FREY LANE

Fair

Over: W BR LITTLE BLACK RIVER

1.5M S JCT CTH M, Taylor, WI

Built 1965 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 58

LRD CENTER AVE

Fair

Over: E BR LITTLE BLACK RIVER

3.2M W JCT CTH C, Taylor, WI

Built 1965 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 58

LRD DUMS DR

Fair

Over: W BR LITTLE BLACK RIVER

1.4M S JCT CTH M, Taylor, WI

Built 1952 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 58

LRD PINE AVE

Fair

Over: PINE CREEK

1.1M E JCT CTH E, Taylor, WI

Built 1979 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 92

CTH M

Fair

Over: BR BLACK RIVER

1.3M W JCT CTH E TO NORTH, Taylor, WI

Built 1940 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 748

LRD BRAG LANE

Fair

Over: BR RIB RIVER

0.7M E JCT STH 64, Taylor, WI

Built 1919 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 29

LRD LUCIA RD

Fair

Over: SILVER CREEK

1.8M N JCT CTH D, Taylor, WI

Built 1976 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 235

CTH T

Fair

Over: BLACK RIVER

1.3M W JCT CTH A TO E, Taylor, WI

Built 1969 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 502

CTH D

Fair

Over: SILVER CREEK

0.8M E JCT STH 13, Taylor, WI

Built 1976 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 758

LRD TROUT RD

Fair

Over: SILVERNAGLE CREEK

1.1M W JCT CTH C, Taylor, WI

Built 1981 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 58

FR102

Fair

Over: N. F. YELLOW RIVER

1.7 M. W. JCT CTH E, Taylor, WI

Built 1990 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 50

CTH O

Fair

Over: BLACK RIVER

0.6M E JCT CTH E, Taylor, WI

Built 1975 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 2,275

LRD TIMBER DR

Fair

Over: SILVERNAGLE CREEK

3.1M N JCT CTH M, Taylor, WI

Built 1978 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 58

LRD BRIDGE DR

Fair

Over: JUMP RIVER

0.2M S JCT STH 73, Taylor, WI

Built 1979 Load: 29.2 t ADT: 232

CTH A

Fair

Over: PINE CREEK

1.4M E JCT CTH E, Taylor, WI

Built 1984 Load: 29.2 t ADT: 717

STH 13

Fair

Over: ATV TRAIL (OVER OLD SOO

2.9M N JCT STH 102, Taylor, WI

Built 1974 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 2,700

STH 13

Fair

Over: LITTLE BLACK RIVER

2.7M N JCT CTH A, Taylor, WI

Built 1968 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 7,100

CTH T

Fair

Over: MCKENZIE CREEK

0.3M N JCT CTH A TO WEST, Taylor, WI

Built 1990 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 502

STH 64-STH 73

Fair

Over: YELLOW RIVER

0.3M E JCT STH 73 TO N, Taylor, WI

Built 1997 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,600

CTH M

Fair

Over: E BR LITTLE BLACK RIVER

1.8M W JCT CTH C, Taylor, WI

Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 471

LRD TIMBER DR

Fair

Over: E. BR. LITTLE BLACK RIVE

2.0M S JCT CTH M, Taylor, WI

Built 2002 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 53

LRD PINEWOOD DR

Fair

Over: N FK EAU CLAIRE RIVER

2.5M E JCT STH 73, Taylor, WI

Built 1978 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 81

LRD BIRCH DR (DEAD

Fair

Over: PINE CREEK

0.1M S JCT CTH A, Taylor, WI

Built 1977 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 25

CTH O

Fair

Over: BLACK RIVER

1.1M E JCT CTH Q, Taylor, WI

Built 1971 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 3,500

FR106

Fair

Over: MONDEAUX RIVER

1.9 M. E. JCT CTH E, Taylor, WI

Built 1985 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 50

LRD SMITH DR

Fair

Over: LEVITT CREEK

0.3M S JCT CTH D, Taylor, WI

Built 1990 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 73

STH 64

Fair

Over: W BR LITTLE BLACK RIVER

2.8M E JCT STH 13, Taylor, WI

Built 1976 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 1,900

LRD GIBSON DR

Fair

Over: LITTLE BLACK RIVER

0.7M S JCT CTH O, Taylor, WI

Built 1976 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 92

LRD TROUT AVE

Fair

Over: WOOD CREEK

1.9M E JCT CTH C, Taylor, WI

Built 1986 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 46

CTH M

Fair

Over: BLACK RIVER

1.7M W JCT STH 13, Taylor, WI

Built 2004 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 1,200

LRD STETSON AVE

Fair

Over: DEER CREEK

2.0M E JCT STH 13, Taylor, WI

Built 1971 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 58

CTH G

Fair

Over: BEAR CREEK

0.7M S JCT CTH M, Taylor, WI

Built 1960 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 200

LRD LEMKE RD

Fair

Over: MINK CREEK

2.0M N JCT STH 64, Taylor, WI

Built 1990 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 58

CTH M

Fair

Over: PARADISE CREEK

2.4M W JCT CTH E TO NORTH, Taylor, WI

Built 1994 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 748

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