Total bridges
381
Public highway bridges in Baldwin County
County profile · official public datasets
Baldwin County, AL
381 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 48.3% rated Good, 50.4% Fair, 1.3% Poor.
- 381
- Public bridges
- 48.3%
- Good condition
- 1.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Baldwin County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 25%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 1.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 381
- public highway bridges
- 1991
- 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.
Baldwin County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Baldwin County ranks #17 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.3%). Baldwin County, Alabama contains 381 public highway bridges. Roughly 48.3% are rated “Good,” 50.4% “Fair,” and 1.3% “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
48.3%
184 of 381 rated 7-9
Fair condition
50.4%
192 of 381 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.3%
5 of 381 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#17 of 67
Among Alabama counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 381 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 48.3% (184)
Fair 50.4% (192)
Poor 1.3% (5)
Baldwin County's Poor-condition bridges carry 39,100 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 7,820 crossings a day against 1,901 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 381 of 381 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
25.7% of Baldwin County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
98 of the 381 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 48.3% 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 81.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US 98 over FLY CREEK, built 1968, carries 31,822 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 39,100 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Baldwin County's bridges were built
381 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 8
1920–1929
8 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s 10
1950–1959
10 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
62 bridges
- 1970s 29
1970–1979
29 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
43 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
81 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
61 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
59 bridges
- 2020s 24
2020–2029
24 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 81 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1991, 17 years newer than the Alabama average of 1974.
How Baldwin County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Alabama counties nearest Baldwin County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.3% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1991 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is 20 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Alabama counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calhoun County | 386 | 32.9% | 63.2% | 3.9% | 1969 |
| Baldwin County (this page) | 381 | 48.3% | 50.4% | 1.3% | 1991 |
| Shelby County | 344 | 41% | 58.1% | 0.9% | 1981 |
| Covington County | 332 | 31.9% | 63% | 5.1% | 1970 |
| Limestone County | 324 | 45.1% | 52.8% | 2.2% | 1972 |
| Jackson County | 314 | 29% | 67.2% | 3.8% | 1961 |
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 Baldwin 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 Baldwin County, both outside Alabama so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside AL (381 bridges here).
- Lehigh County, PA · 381 bridges
- Obion County, TN · 381 bridges
- Jasper County, IA · 382 bridges
- Orleans County, LA · 382 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1991 here).
- Denver County, CO · avg 1991 · 458 bridges
- Union County, NC · avg 1991 · 353 bridges
- Rock County, MN · avg 1991 · 265 bridges
- Alcorn County, MS · avg 1991 · 213 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (184)
Woerner Road
GoodOver: Three Mile Creek
.08 MI E. of CO RD 87, Baldwin, AL
Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 70
CO RD 73
GoodOver: Trib to Negro CR
.23mi N to CO RD 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,093
COUNTY ROAD 32
GoodOver: DRAINAGE
.56 MILES W OF US 98, Baldwin, AL
Built 2017 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,815
Wells Rd
GoodOver: Branch
.5 mile west of CR 13, Baldwin, AL
Built 2017 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 308
MORGANTOWN BLVD
GoodOver: UNNAMED CREEK
189 ft south of HWY 180., Baldwin, AL
Built 1992 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 51
CO. RD. 20
GoodOver: MIFLIN CREEK
2.8 MI. W. OF CO. RD. 87, Baldwin, AL
Built 1995 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 2,237
SWIFT CHURCH RD.
GoodOver: WOLF CREEK
0.3 MI. N. OF CO. RD. 20, Baldwin, AL
Built 1995 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 245
COUNTY ROAD 24
GoodOver: MAGNOLIA RIVER
0.9 MI. W. OF AL. HWY. 59, Baldwin, AL
Built 1995 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 1,759
CO.RD.47
GoodOver: BUSHY CREEK
1.0 MI. NE. OF I-65, Baldwin, AL
Built 1997 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 2,360
CO. RD. 99
GoodOver: MANUAL BAYOU
1.0 MI. NE. OF CO. RD. 91, Baldwin, AL
Built 1996 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 618
CO.RD.39
GoodOver: WHITEHOUSE CREEK
1.3 MI. S. OF CO. RD. 138, Baldwin, AL
Built 1996 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 713
COUNTY ROAD 32
GoodOver: MAURICE CREEK
1.2 MI. W. OF CO. RD. 87, Baldwin, AL
Built 1997 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 1,156
CO. RD. 6
GoodOver: OYSTER BAY
4.3 MI. W. OF AL. HWY. 59, Baldwin, AL
Built 1997 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 977
CO. RD. 20
GoodOver: HAMMOCK CREEK
1.2 MI. W. OF CO. RD. 95, Baldwin, AL
Built 1997 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 1,290
CO. RD. 13
GoodOver: WATERHOLE BRANCH
0.9 MI. S. OF CO. RD. 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 1998 Load: 32.8 t ADT: 352
BEACH EXPRESS SO.
GoodOver: SANDY CREEK
1.2 MI. N. OF US 98, Baldwin, AL
Built 2000 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 4,416
BEACH EXPRESS NO.
GoodOver: SANDY CREEK
1.2 MI. N. OF US 98, Baldwin, AL
Built 2000 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 4,416
Trib. to Cowpen Cr
GoodOver: CR 44_
.17 M. E. of CR 13, Baldwin, AL
Built 2017 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 3,267
US90 SR10
GoodOver: Perdido River
Florida & Alabama Line, Baldwin, AL
Built 2013 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 6,594
CO. RD. 49
GoodOver: SKUNK BAYOU
1.3 MI. W. OF CO. RD. 19, Baldwin, AL
Built 1994 Load: 33.2 t ADT: 478
Jimmy Faulkner Dr.
GoodOver: SIBLEY CREEK
2.2 MI.N. OF AL. HWY.31, Baldwin, AL
Built 2005 Load: 33.2 t ADT: 392
CO RD 47
GoodOver: WATERHOLE HOLLOW
0.9 MI. N. OF I-65, Baldwin, AL
Built 1996 Load: 33.3 t ADT: 1,600
SR 59
GoodOver: LITTLE TURKEY CREEK
0.6 MI N JCT CO RD 61, Baldwin, AL
Built 1988 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 801
SR 59
GoodOver: LITTLE TURKEY CREEK
0.7 MI N CO RD 61, Baldwin, AL
Built 1988 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 801
BEACH EXPRESS
GoodOver: TRIB TO NEGRO CREEK
0.6 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2014 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 3,825
BEACH EXPRESS
GoodOver: TRIB TO NEGRO CREEK
0.6 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2014 Load: 33.4 t ADT: 3,825
BEACH EXPRESS
GoodOver: NEGRO CREEK
0.8 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2014 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 3,825
BEACH EXPRESS
GoodOver: NEGRO CREEK
0.8 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2014 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 3,732
BEACH EXPRESS
GoodOver: ROCK CREEK
4.3 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2014 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 3,732
BEACH EXPRESS
GoodOver: ROCK CREEK
4.3 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2014 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 3,732
_Limerick Lane
GoodOver: Drainage
40 South of Fionn Loop, Baldwin, AL
Built 2000 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 205
Ciounty Road 24
GoodOver: Turkey Branch
87 feet W of US 98, Baldwin, AL
Built 2017 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 1,340
CO. RD. 52
GoodOver: SILVER CREEK
0.8 MI. E. OF CO. RD. 55, Baldwin, AL
Built 1993 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 956
CR 34
GoodOver: Negro Creek
2.3 M. E. of Al. Hwy. 59, Baldwin, AL
Built 2017 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 384
CO RD 87_
GoodOver: Trib. to Three Mile CR.
_1.28m S of CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2016 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 3,239
SR 225
GoodOver: FLAT CREEK
1 MI N I-65, Baldwin, AL
Built 1994 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 1,802
W. MICHIGAN AVENU
GoodOver: RELIEF
0.63 MI. W. SR 59, Baldwin, AL
Built 1992 Load: 34.2 t ADT: 298
CO.RD.64
GoodOver: TOOTHACHE CREEK
0.8 MI. E. OF CO. RD. 65, Baldwin, AL
Built 1996 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 1,891
SR 225
GoodOver: RAINS CREEK
1 MI N I-65, Baldwin, AL
Built 1994 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 1,802
BELFOREST CEM. RD.
GoodOver: CONEY BRANCH
0.4 MI.W.OF CR.RD. 54W., Baldwin, AL
Built 2002 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 619
SILAS GANEY RD.
GoodOver: MAJORS CREEK
0.02 MI. N. OF CR 96, Baldwin, AL
Built 2011 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 77
COUNTY ROAD 83
GoodOver: WATERHOLE BRANCH TRIB
4.2 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2013 Load: 34.8 t ADT: 3,732
CO.RD. 91
GoodOver: NARROW GAP BRANCH
3.3 MILES NORTH OF US 98, Baldwin, AL
Built 2013 Load: 34.9 t ADT: 284
BALDWIN BEACH EXPR
GoodOver: DAVIS BRANCH
0.4 MI. N. OF US 90, Baldwin, AL
Built 2011 Load: 35.7 t ADT: 1,585
CO.RD.40
GoodOver: WHITEHOUSE CREEK
0.6 MI. E. OF S.R. 225, Baldwin, AL
Built 1996 Load: 35.9 t ADT: 772
CO.RD.39
GoodOver: BAY MINETTE CREEK
3.3 MI. NW. OF US 31, Baldwin, AL
Built 1996 Load: 35.9 t ADT: 712
TRUCK TRAIL 17
GoodOver: HOLLINGER CREEK
3.0 M. W. OF CR 64, Baldwin, AL
Built 2013 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 70
Woodland LN
GoodOver: Ganey Branch
.06 mi S to US 98, Baldwin, AL
Built 2016 Load: 36.5 t ADT: 256
BEACH EXPRESS
GoodOver: WATERHOLE BRANCH
2.6 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2014 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 3,732
COUNTY ROAD 83
GoodOver: WATERHOLE BRANCH
2.6 M. N. OF CR 32, Baldwin, AL
Built 2012 Load: 36.6 t ADT: 3,825
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