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Y Lane over Beaver Creek

Decatur County, Kansas · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

Y Lane over Beaver Creek in Decatur County, Kansas, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the substructure, rated 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1950, making it 75 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 20 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2020).
Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
It is one of 14 of the 157 inventoried bridges in Decatur County rated poor (8.9%); 14 (8.9%) are rated poor.
A poor rating means at least one major component - deck, superstructure, or substructure - is rated 4 or lower on FHWA's 0-9 scale. It does not by itself mean the bridge is unsafe; bridges judged unsafe are closed or load-restricted by their owners.

Component ratings


Structure	Steel stringer or multi-beam girder
Length	about 30 ft
Location	0.8S 3.4W of Traer
NBI structure number	000200457603120
Condition class	Poor

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the Kansas department of transportation.

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
US83 Hwy over Sappa Creek Drainage	2016	2,429	Good
US83 Hwy over Former Oberlin Lake	1972	1,943	Good
K383 Hwy over Turtle Creek	1959	1,876	Fair
K383 Hwy over Prairie Dog Creek Drg	1938	1,876	Good
US83 Hwy over Sappa Creek Drainage	1936	1,590	Fair
US83 Hwy over Sappa Creek	1986	1,590	Fair