Total bridges
118
Public highway bridges in Autauga County
County profile · official public datasets
Autauga County, AL
118 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 39% rated Good, 58.5% Fair, 2.5% Poor.
- 118
- Public bridges
- 39%
- Good condition
- 2.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Autauga County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 45%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 118
- public highway bridges
- 1977
- avg year built
Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.
Autauga County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Autauga County ranks #30 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.5%). Autauga County, Alabama contains 118 public highway bridges. Roughly 39% are rated “Good,” 58.5% “Fair,” and 2.5% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.
Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.
Good condition
39%
46 of 118 rated 7-9
Fair condition
58.5%
69 of 118 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.5%
3 of 118 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#30 of 67
Among Alabama counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 118 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 39% (46)
Fair 58.5% (69)
Poor 2.5% (3)
Autauga County's Poor-condition bridges carry 26,478 vehicle crossings a day
That is 5.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 8,826 crossings a day against 1,658 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.
Computed over the 118 of 118 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
47.5% of Autauga County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
56 of the 118 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 39% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.
Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
One structure carries 56.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US 82 over AUTAUGA CREEK, built 1957, carries 14,890 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 26,478 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Autauga County's bridges were built
118 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 7
1930–1939
7 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
17 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
21 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
11 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
14 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
21 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
12 bridges
- 2010s 8
2010–2019
8 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 21 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1977) matches the Alabama average (1974).
How Autauga County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Alabama counties nearest Autauga County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.5% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1977 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Alabama counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullock County | 136 | 20.6% | 77.9% | 1.5% | 1970 |
| Henry County | 133 | 41.4% | 58.6% | 0% | 1975 |
| Clay County | 129 | 25.6% | 67.4% | 7% | 1966 |
| Bibb County | 126 | 45.2% | 54% | 0.8% | 1965 |
| Coosa County | 126 | 20.6% | 75.4% | 4% | 1970 |
| Autauga County (this page) | 118 | 39% | 58.5% | 2.5% | 1977 |
Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Autauga County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Autauga County, both outside Alabama so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside AL (118 bridges here).
- Perry County, AR · 118 bridges
- Montrose County, CO · 118 bridges
- Rabun County, GA · 118 bridges
- Johnson County, IL · 118 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1977 here).
- San Diego County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,632 bridges
- King County, WA · avg 1977 · 1,238 bridges
- Riverside County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,117 bridges
- Shelby County, TN · avg 1977 · 1,077 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (118)
CO RD 42
GoodOver: WAINWRIGHT BRANCH
BROWN TOWN, Autauga, AL
Built 1995 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 399
CO.RD.40
GoodOver: SWIFT CREEK CO.RD.40
0.6 MI. E OF INDEPENDENCE, Autauga, AL
Built 2002 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 560
CO.RD.40
GoodOver: SWIFT CREEK RELIEF
1.0 MI. E OF INDEPENDENCE, Autauga, AL
Built 2002 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 560
CO.RD.19
GoodOver: WYATT-BRANCH-VIDA-JCT.
VIDA-JCT, Autauga, AL
Built 1956 Load: 45.6 t ADT: 611
CR. 40
GoodOver: LITTLE MULBERRY CREEK
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Built 2009 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 225
SELMA HIGHWAY
GoodOver: AUTAUGA CREEK
PRATTVILLE, Autauga, AL
Built 2005 Load: 49.0 t ADT: 9,650
W. FOURTH ST
GoodOver: AUTAUGA CREEK
IN CITY OF PRATTVILLE, Autauga, AL
Built 2011 Load: 51.5 t ADT: 6,330
US 82
GoodOver: AUTAUGA CREEK
2.0 MI E OF PRATTVILLE, Autauga, AL
Built 2021 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 17,962
COUNTY ROAD 10
GoodOver: BRIDGE CREEK
1.25 MILES WEST OF CR. 57, Autauga, AL
Built 2003 Load: 55.2 t ADT: 770
COUNTY ROAD 57
GoodOver: BRIDGE CREEK
2.5 MI. N. OF PRATTVILLE, Autauga, AL
Built 2003 Load: 55.2 t ADT: 1,780
US 82
GoodOver: ICR RR
3.5 MI EAST OF PVILLE, Autauga, AL
Built 2022 Load: 61.2 t ADT: 17,962
CO.RD.1
GoodOver: GEE CREEK
STATESVILLE-JONES BLUFF, Autauga, AL
Built 1963 Load: 64.4 t ADT: 275
CO RD 79
GoodOver: BEADLESCOMB BRANCH
3.2KM S BILLINGSLEY, Autauga, AL
Built 1995 Load: 70.9 t ADT: 75
AL 14
GoodOver: BEAVER CREEK
6.6 MI.W. OF AUTAUGAVILLE, Autauga, AL
Built 2018 Load: 71.3 t ADT: 2,970
CO RD 38
GoodOver: SAND BRANCH
INDEPENDENCE, Autauga, AL
Built 1992 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 65
US 82
PoorOver: AUTAUGA CREEK
2.0 MI E OF PRATTVILLE, Autauga, AL
Built 1957 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 14,890
US 82
PoorOver: ICG RR
3.5 MI E OF PRATTVILLE, Autauga, AL
Built 1957 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 10,990
CO.RD.68
PoorOver: SHOAL CREEK
WADSWORTH, Autauga, AL
Built 1982 Load: 33.3 t ADT: 598
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