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Geneva County, AL

205 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 34.6% rated Good, 62% Fair, 3.4% Poor.

205
Public bridges
34.6%
Good condition
3.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Geneva County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

39th
of 67 on Poor share
3.4%
Poor-condition share
205
public highway bridges
1976
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.

Geneva County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Geneva County ranks #39 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.4%). Geneva County, Alabama contains 205 public highway bridges. Roughly 34.6% are rated “Good,” 62% “Fair,” and 3.4% “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.

Total bridges

205

Public highway bridges in Geneva County

Good condition

34.6%

71 of 205 rated 7-9

Fair condition

62%

127 of 205 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.4%

7 of 205 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#39 of 67

Among Alabama counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 205 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
34.6% (71)
Fair
62% (127)
Poor
3.4% (7)

Geneva County's Poor-condition bridges carry 503 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 72 crossings a day against 1,015 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 205 of 205 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

49.8% of Geneva County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

102 of the 205 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 34.6% 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 29.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

REVELS FARM ROAD over BUSHY BRANCH, built 1985, carries 150 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 503 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Geneva County's bridges were built

205 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 48 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Alabama average (1974).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Geneva County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Alabama counties nearest Geneva County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.4% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 66 Alabama counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Geneva County and the 5 Alabama counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Dale County 206 0%
Russell County 205 2.9%
Geneva County (this page) 205 3.4%
Greene County 204 2.9%
Marengo County 203 5.9%
Elmore County 202 3%

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 Geneva 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 Geneva County, both outside Alabama so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AL (205 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1976 here).

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 205 Good 71 Fair 127 Poor 7

Good-condition bridges (71)

CO. HWY. # 67

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

3 MI S OF HARTFORD, Geneva, AL

Built 1965 Load: 19.5 t ADT: 106

SR 54 MP 14.272

Good

Over: FLAT CREEK

1.5 MI. W. SR 52, Geneva, AL

Built 1984 Load: 19.9 t ADT: 950

CR 4 Goat Hill Rd

Good

Over: SANDY CREEK

5 MI WEST OF GENEVA, Geneva, AL

Built 1954 Load: 21.4 t ADT: 600

COUNTY ROAD 68

Good

Over: BEAR CREEK

6 MI. NE OF SLOCOMB, Geneva, AL

Built 1961 Load: 21.4 t ADT: 282

B. BROOKS RD.

Good

Over: UT DOUBLE BRIDGES CK.

3mi NW GCLake off McCoull, Geneva, AL

Built 1971 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 22

EIGHT MILE RD.

Good

Over: EIGHT MILE CREEK

10 MILES S.W. OF SAMSON, Geneva, AL

Built 1997 Load: 23.9 t ADT: 48

CO HWY 91

Good

Over: GULLY BRANCH

7 MI S OF SLOCOMB, Geneva, AL

Built 1956 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 135

COUNTY ROAD 4

Good

Over: POPLAR CREEK

6 MILES SOUTH OF HARTFORD, Geneva, AL

Built 1951 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 280

VINSON ROAD

Good

Over: BEAR CREEK

5 MILES NE OF SLOCOMB, Geneva, AL

Built 1983 Load: 27.0 t ADT: 60

MCCOLLOUGH ROAD

Good

Over: DOUBLE BRIDGES BRANCH

6 MILES N.E. OF SAMSON, Geneva, AL

Built 2002 Load: 27.4 t ADT: 65

MILLVILLE RD.

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

2 MILES NE OF BLACK, Geneva, AL

Built 1970 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 60

COUNTY ROAD 41

Good

Over: SIMMONS CREEK

2 MILES N.E. OF GENEVA, Geneva, AL

Built 2001 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 990

TRAVIS WISE ROAD

Good

Over: PALMER BRANCH

5 MI NE OF SAMSON, Geneva, AL

Built 1979 Load: 27.7 t ADT: 35

CO. HWY 1

Good

Over: EIGHT MILE CREEK

3 MILES SOUTH OF HACODA, Geneva, AL

Built 1962 Load: 27.9 t ADT: 100

SR 52 MP 15.196

Good

Over: PEA RIVER RELIEF

.6 MI. E. SR.153, Geneva, AL

Built 1979 Load: 27.9 t ADT: 3,430

CO. HWY # 72

Good

Over: CAMPBELL MILL CREEK

1 MI E OF CHANCELLOR, Geneva, AL

Built 1960 Load: 28.5 t ADT: 252

HWY 16

Good

Over: PINE LOG BRANCH

2 MI S OF SLOCOMB, Geneva, AL

Built 1970 Load: 30.3 t ADT: 450

SR-85 MP 10.430

Good

Over: WILKERSON CREEK

IN BELLWOOD, Geneva, AL

Built 1994 Load: 30.3 t ADT: 1,900

AL 123 4.500

Good

Over: HURRICANE CREEK

0.2MI S CONO44, Geneva, AL

Built 2002 Load: 30.5 t ADT: 2,470

HWY46 T Peacock Rd

Good

Over: SANDY BRANCH

4 MI NE OF HARTFORD, Geneva, AL

Built 1963 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 120

SR 103 MP 4.962

Good

Over: WRIGHTS CREEK

5 MI. N. FLA. LINE, Geneva, AL

Built 1990 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 1,510

COUNTY ROAD 4

Good

Over: HOLMES CREEK

8 MILES SOUT OF MALVERN, Geneva, AL

Built 1994 Load: 30.9 t ADT: 200

SR-54 MP 10.237

Good

Over: STREAM

.7 mi w co. rd. 10, Geneva, AL

Built 2014 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 950

SR 167 MP 4.498

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

4.5 MI. N. FLA. LINE, Geneva, AL

Built 1989 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 3,100

SR 153 MP 3.125

Good

Over: POPLAR BRANCH

3.1 MI. NORTH FLA. LINE., Geneva, AL

Built 1985 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,450

SR 153 MP 8.810

Good

Over: STREAM

.2 MILE FROM SR 52, Geneva, AL

Built 1985 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,730

COUNTY ROAD 61

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

2 MILES NORTH OF BLACK, Geneva, AL

Built 2002 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 600

COUNTY ROAD 4

Good

Over: EIGHT MILE CREEK

4.5 MI S OF HACODA, Geneva, AL

Built 2002 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 299

COUNTY RD 79

Good

Over: TIGHT EYE CREEK

4 Miles NE os Samson, Geneva, AL

Built 2017 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 7

ALFORD RD CO.RD 10

Good

Over: BARKER MILL CREEK

5 MILES S.E.OF HACODA, Geneva, AL

Built 1961 Load: 33.1 t ADT: 250

SR 52 MP 15.397

Good

Over: PEA RIVER

.8 MI. E. SR.153, Geneva, AL

Built 1979 Load: 34.2 t ADT: 3,430

SR 167 MP 6.075

Good

Over: BURCH BRANCH

6.1 MI.N.FLA.LINE, Geneva, AL

Built 1989 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 3,100

SR 167 MP 1.086

Good

Over: TEN MILE CREEK

1.1 MI. N. FLA. LINE, Geneva, AL

Built 1989 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 3,200

ARMSTRONG ROAD

Good

Over: SANDY CREEK

1.0 MILES SOUTH OF SAMSON, Geneva, AL

Built 2006 Load: 35.7 t ADT: 52

SR 167 MP 2.567

Good

Over: POPLAR CREEK

2.6 MI. N. FLA. LINE, Geneva, AL

Built 1989 Load: 36.1 t ADT: 3,200

SR 52 MP 54.202

Good

Over: NEWTON CREEK

.5 MI.W.GENEVA 93, Geneva, AL

Built 1986 Load: 37.1 t ADT: 6,920

BEN PATE ROAD

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

1 MILE NE OF BLACK, Geneva, AL

Built 2013 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 40

HORNSBY ROAD

Good

Over: PUMPKIN CREEK

3 MILES SE OF SAMSON, Geneva, AL

Built 2013 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 40

COUNTY ROAD 45

Good

Over: SPEARS CREEK

1 MI S.E. OF BELLWOOD????, Geneva, AL

Built 1998 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 450

SR-54 MP 14.942

Good

Over: STREAM

1 mi. west of al 52, Geneva, AL

Built 2014 Load: 41.1 t ADT: 1,120

COE RD.

Good

Over: HURRICANE CREEK

2 MI E OF HARTFORD, Geneva, AL

Built 1988 Load: 43.2 t ADT: 50

SR 54 MP. 11.312

Good

Over: BRANCH

.3 MI. E. GENEVA CO. 10, Geneva, AL

Built 2001 Load: 44.2 t ADT: 950

COUNTY ROAD 10

Good

Over: TRIB TO CORNER CREEK

0.5 MILES WEST OF HACODA, Geneva, AL

Built 2004 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 254

SR. 52 MP. 44.712

Good

Over: HURRICANE CREEK

3.5 MI. E. SR. 123, Geneva, AL

Built 2008 Load: 45.1 t ADT: 4,210

FOSTER CLARK ROAD

Good

Over: HURRICANE CREEK

2 MILES EAST OF HARTFORD, Geneva, AL

Built 2012 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 46

HARRELL ROAD

Good

Over: LITTLE CREEK

2 MILES NW OF SLOCOMB, Geneva, AL

Built 2013 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 62

OPEN POND ROAD

Good

Over: SANDY CREEK

8 MILE SE OF SAMSON, Geneva, AL

Built 2013 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 50

SR 123 MP 7.886

Good

Over: PATES CREEK

1.5MI N GENEVA CORD46, Geneva, AL

Built 2001 Load: 46.7 t ADT: 2,400

COUNTY HWY 21

Good

Over: LONG BRANCH

4 MILES NW OF GENEVA, Geneva, AL

Built 2010 Load: 47.7 t ADT: 244

CO RD 16

Good

Over: PUMPKIN CREEK

4 MI SE OF SAMSON, Geneva, AL

Built 1988 Load: 48.8 t ADT: 160

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