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County Highway over Superior Canal

Nuckolls County, Nebraska · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

County Highway over Superior Canal in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 2 (critical condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1947 and reconstructed in 1979, making it 78 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 75 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2003).
Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
It is one of 19 of the 255 inventoried bridges in Nuckolls County rated poor (7.5%); 19 (7.5%) 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	Timber stringer or multi-beam girder
Length	about 28 ft
Location	In Bostwick S Edge
NBI structure number	C006500905P
Condition class	Poor

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
N14 over Ox Bow Creek	1937	1,625	Poor
N14 over Walnut Creek	1937	1,585	Poor
N14 over Little Blue River	1980	1,585	Fair
N14 over Buffalo Creek	1937	1,585	Fair
N14 over Elk Creek	1975	1,480	Fair
8TH St/fas 1990 over Lost Creek	2014	1,435	Fair