Home › Kentucky › Estill County › Jakes Heavenly Hwy over Middle Fork

Jakes Heavenly Hwy over Middle Fork

Estill County, Kentucky · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Jakes Heavenly Hwy over Middle Fork in Estill County, Kentucky, 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 1978, making it 47 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 71 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2012).
Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
It is one of 5 of the 56 inventoried bridges in Estill County rated poor (8.9%); 5 (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	Prestressed concrete multiple box beam
Length	about 49 ft
Location	.1 Mi SE of Jct Ky 89
NBI structure number	033C00009N
Condition class	Poor

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Ky-52 over Kentucky River & CSX RR	1940	13,424	Fair
Ky-52 over Drowning Creek	1957	8,228	Poor
Ky 499 over Kentucky Rvr&csx Railroa	2000	5,772	Fair
Ky 89 over Sweet Lick Branch	2017	5,369	Good
Ky 89 over White Oak Creek	2017	5,369	Good
Ky-89 over Calloway Creek	1931	4,473	Fair