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Bird Cemetery Rd over Hemlock Creek

Cayuga County, New York · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

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

Bird Cemetery Rd over Hemlock Creek in Cayuga County, New York, 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 1953, making it 72 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 434 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2017).
Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
It is one of 26 of the 148 inventoried bridges in Cayuga County rated poor (17.6%); 26 (17.6%) 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 37 ft
Location	.4 Mi SW of Town of Locke
NBI structure number	000000003311600
Condition class	Poor

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

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Rte I90 over CR 14	1953	32,077	Fair
Rte I90 over Cold Spring Brook	1950	30,507	Good
Rte I90 over CSX RR /amtrak	1953	30,507	Fair
Rte I90 over Owasco Outlet	2004	30,507	Good
Rte I90 over Crane Brook	1953	30,507	Fair
Rte 34 over CSX Trans/amtrak Putnam	1990	11,797	Good