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First Street North over Wichita Drainage Canal

Sedgwick County, Kansas · rated Fair in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

First Street North over Wichita Drainage Canal in Sedgwick County, Kansas, is rated in fair condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the deck, rated 5 (fair condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1972, making it 53 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 8,000 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2006).
Its listed owner is a city or municipal highway agency.
It is one of 408 of the 1,339 inventoried bridges in Sedgwick County rated fair (30.5%); 39 (2.9%) are rated poor.
A fair rating means the lowest-rated major component scores 5 or 6 on FHWA's 0-9 scale: some deterioration or minor section loss, but the structure is sound. It is the middle class, not a warning.

Component ratings

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
K 96 Hwy over Middle Fork Chisolm Crk	2023	59,400	Good
I-235 Hwy over I-235 HWY I-135 Ramps	2023	59,400	Good
K 96 Hwy WB over BNSF RR	2022	59,400	Good
US54/US400 Hwy WB over BNSF Railroad	1953	59,000	Fair
US 54 Hw EB over BNSF & Ko RR & Streets	1979	59,000	Good
US-54 Hwy WB over City Sts/arkansas River	1994	59,000	Good