Total bridges
154
Public highway bridges in Choctaw County
County profile · official public datasets
Choctaw County, AL
154 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 39.6% rated Good, 55.2% Fair, 5.2% Poor.
- 154
- Public bridges
- 39.6%
- Good condition
- 5.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Choctaw County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 50th
- of 67 on Poor share
- 5.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 154
- public highway bridges
- 1971
- 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.
Choctaw County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Choctaw County ranks #50 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.2%). Choctaw County, Alabama contains 154 public highway bridges. Roughly 39.6% are rated “Good,” 55.2% “Fair,” and 5.2% “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
39.6%
61 of 154 rated 7-9
Fair condition
55.2%
85 of 154 rated 5-6
Poor condition
5.2%
8 of 154 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#50 of 67
Among Alabama counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 154 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 39.6% (61)
Fair 55.2% (85)
Poor 5.2% (8)
Choctaw County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,690 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 586 crossings a day against 1,401 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 154 of 154 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
58.4% of Choctaw County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
90 of the 154 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 39.6% 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 36.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CO RD 24 over SPEAR CREEK, built 1973, carries 1,725 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 4,690 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Choctaw County's bridges were built
154 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 2
1900–1909
2 bridges
- 1910s 3
1910–1919
3 bridges
- 1920s
1920–1929
10 bridges
- 1930s 5
1930–1939
5 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
12 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
23 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
21 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
17 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
16 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
19 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
17 bridges
- 2010s 5
2010–2019
5 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 23 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 14.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1971) matches the Alabama average (1974).
How Choctaw County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Alabama counties nearest Choctaw County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.2% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Alabama counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleburne County | 165 | 32.1% | 61.8% | 6.1% | 1973 |
| Perry County | 162 | 19.8% | 75.9% | 4.3% | 1971 |
| Lowndes County | 157 | 43.3% | 55.4% | 1.3% | 1968 |
| Clarke County | 155 | 70.3% | 29.7% | 0% | 1973 |
| Choctaw County (this page) | 154 | 39.6% | 55.2% | 5.2% | 1971 |
| Tallapoosa County | 149 | 34.2% | 55% | 10.7% | 1967 |
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 Choctaw 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 Choctaw County, both outside Alabama so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside AL (154 bridges here).
- Arkansas County, AR · 154 bridges
- Kootenai County, ID · 154 bridges
- Elk County, KS · 154 bridges
- Madison County, KY · 154 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1971 here).
- Wayne County, MI · avg 1971 · 1,026 bridges
- Baltimore County, MD · avg 1971 · 783 bridges
- Washington County, PA · avg 1971 · 655 bridges
- Linn County, OR · avg 1971 · 566 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (8)
JOHNNY B JOHNSONR
PoorOver: BLACK CREEK
0.5 MI N INT RT40 *RT41, Choctaw, AL
Built 1971 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 90
Timberlane Rd.
PoorOver: Spear Creek
1.6 MI W JCT AL10/AL17, Choctaw, AL
Built 1986 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 200
CO RD 30-CYRIL RD
PoorOver: BOGUELICHITTO CREEK
0.1 MI S INT RT 197 * 154, Choctaw, AL
Built 1929 Load: 1.8 t ADT: 100
CO RD 21
PoorOver: SOUWILPA CREEK
0.6 MI N INT RT 241 * 42, Choctaw, AL
Built 1955 Load: 1.8 t ADT: 1,000
CR 30 - CYRIL RD
PoorOver: BRANCH
1.0 MI W INT AL 10 * 196, Choctaw, AL
Built 1927 Load: 3.4 t ADT: 350
BRASWELL HILL RD
PoorOver: SMALL CREEK
0.5 MI W INT RT 111 * 110, Choctaw, AL
Built 1900 Load: 3.6 t ADT: 125
CO RD 24
PoorOver: SPEAR CREEK
0.5 MI W INT AL 17 * 151, Choctaw, AL
Built 1973 Load: 6.4 t ADT: 1,725
CO RD 21
PoorOver: BLACK CREEK
0.5 MI N INT AL 84 * 241, Choctaw, AL
Built 1955 Load: 7.3 t ADT: 1,100
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