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Lawrence County, AL

215 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 52.1% rated Good, 45.1% Fair, 2.8% Poor.

215
Public bridges
52.1%
Good condition
2.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 48%
lowest Poor share in state
2.8%
Poor-condition share
215
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.

Lawrence County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lawrence County ranks #32 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.8%). Lawrence County, Alabama contains 215 public highway bridges. Roughly 52.1% are rated “Good,” 45.1% “Fair,” and 2.8% “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

215

Public highway bridges in Lawrence County

Good condition

52.1%

112 of 215 rated 7-9

Fair condition

45.1%

97 of 215 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.8%

6 of 215 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#32 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 215 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
52.1% (112)
Fair
45.1% (97)
Poor
2.8% (6)

Lawrence County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,075 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 679 crossings a day against 1,770 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 215 of 215 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

45.6% of Lawrence County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

98 of the 215 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 52.1% 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 27% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

JEFFERSON STREET over BIG NANCE CREEK, built 1926, carries 1,100 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 4,075 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Lawrence County's bridges were built

215 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 51 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 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 Lawrence County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Alabama counties nearest Lawrence County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.8% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lawrence County and the 5 Alabama counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Dallas County 225 3.1%
Conecuh County 224 6.3%
Coffee County 216 0.5%
Lawrence County (this page) 215 2.8%
Lee County 214 1.4%
Dale County 206 0%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AL (215 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 215 Good 112 Fair 97 Poor 6

Good-condition bridges (112)

CR 187

Good

Over: WEST FLINT CREEK

0.85 MI W JCT CO RT 203, Lawrence, AL

Built 2019 Load: 41.8 t ADT: 231

CO RT 17

Good

Over: MILAM CREEK

0.5 MI W JCT CO RT 28, Lawrence, AL

Built 1964 Load: 42.5 t ADT: 406

SR 157

Good

Over: ELAM CREEK

5.6 M S JCT SR157 & SR24, Lawrence, AL

Built 2002 Load: 42.5 t ADT: 3,535

SR 157

Good

Over: WEST FLINT CREEK

1.7 M N JCT SR157 & SR36, Lawrence, AL

Built 2002 Load: 42.8 t ADT: 3,415

COUNTY ROAD 186

Good

Over: ELAM CREEK

0.7 MI S JCT CR 87, Lawrence, AL

Built 2005 Load: 43.0 t ADT: 130

CO RD 343

Good

Over: TOWN CREEK

0.3 MI W OF FLAT ROCK, Lawrence, AL

Built 1989 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 230

CO RT 92

Good

Over: STREAM

0.4MI E JCT CO RT 95, Lawrence, AL

Built 1998 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 50

CO RT 017

Good

Over: MILAM CREEK

0.7MI S JCT CO RT 20, Lawrence, AL

Built 1996 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 75

CO RT 175

Good

Over: STREAM

0.6MI NW JCT SR 24, Lawrence, AL

Built 1996 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 75

CO RT 117

Good

Over: RANDOLPH BRANCH

0.05MI E JCT CO RT 108, Lawrence, AL

Built 1996 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 80

COUNTY ROAD 200

Good

Over: NO BUSINESS CREEK

1.3 MI. N OF AL. HWY. 157, Lawrence, AL

Built 1998 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 500

CO. RD. 319

Good

Over: CREEK

0.3 MI. S. CORD. 460, Lawrence, AL

Built 1998 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 250

CO. RD. 231

Good

Over: WADE CREEK

1.0MI. N. JCT.CORD. 170, Lawrence, AL

Built 1998 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 100

CO. RD. 362

Good

Over: FOX CREEK

0.5 MI N. JCT. CORD 364, Lawrence, AL

Built 1998 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 75

CO RD 214

Good

Over: UNNAMED CREEK

0.4 MI E JCT CO RT 434, Lawrence, AL

Built 1999 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 1,200

CO RT 43

Good

Over: WALKER CREEK

1.0 MI N JCT CO RT 31, Lawrence, AL

Built 1997 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 150

CO RD 343

Good

Over: LICK BRANCH

0.5 MI E JCT CO RD 99, Lawrence, AL

Built 1997 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 100

CO RT 35

Good

Over: TROUBLESOME CREEK

0.3 MI S JCT CR 460, Lawrence, AL

Built 2000 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 50

CO RT 242

Good

Over: MILLIGAN BRANCH

0.65 MI E JCT CO RT 238, Lawrence, AL

Built 1998 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 250

CO RT 333

Good

Over: WILEY BRANCH

0.6 MI E JCT CO RT 434, Lawrence, AL

Built 1996 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 200

CO RT 87

Good

Over: FLAT CREEK

2.2 MI NE JCT CO RT 203, Lawrence, AL

Built 1998 Load: 44.5 t ADT: 1,233

CO. RT. 154A

Good

Over: MASTERSON CREEK

0.4MI. E JCT CO. RT. 82, Lawrence, AL

Built 2001 Load: 44.9 t ADT: 75

CO RD 227

Good

Over: BIG SHOALS CREEK

0.3 MI E JCT CO RD 217, Lawrence, AL

Built 1991 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 250

CO RT 117

Good

Over: BORDEN CREEK

0.6MI E JCT CO RT 108, Lawrence, AL

Built 1999 Load: 45.2 t ADT: 70

COUNTY ROAD 54

Good

Over: TOWN CREEK

0.35 MI N JCT CR 59, Lawrence, AL

Built 2003 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 50

CO RD 400

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

4 MI N JCT CO RT 150, Lawrence, AL

Built 1994 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 400

CO. RD. 314

Good

Over: BIG NANCE CREEK

2 MI E JCT. SR 101, Lawrence, AL

Built 2000 Load: 47.1 t ADT: 580

SR 20

Good

Over: MALLARD CREEK

4.7 M E JCT SR 20 & SR 33, Lawrence, AL

Built 2016 Load: 47.5 t ADT: 8,130

SR 20

Good

Over: MALLARD CREEK

4.7 M E JCT SR 20 & SR 33, Lawrence, AL

Built 2016 Load: 47.5 t ADT: 16,260

SR 101

Good

Over: BIG NANCE CREEK

8 M N JCT SR-101 & SR-20, Lawrence, AL

Built 2023 Load: 47.6 t ADT: 5,693

SR 157

Good

Over: BIG NANCE CREEK

4.5 M S JCT SR157 & SR101, Lawrence, AL

Built 1995 Load: 48.0 t ADT: 4,640

CO RT 87

Good

Over: ROCKY BRANCH

JCT CO RT 212*CO RT 87, Lawrence, AL

Built 1996 Load: 48.4 t ADT: 1,129

CR 460

Good

Over: TROUBLESOME CREEK

4 MI W JCT SR 101, Lawrence, AL

Built 1929 Load: 50.2 t ADT: 4,180

COUNTY ROAD 186

Good

Over: COLD BRANCH

1 MI S JCT CR 87, Lawrence, AL

Built 2005 Load: 52.4 t ADT: 124

CR. 150

Good

Over: CROOKED CREEK

0.4 MI SOUTH OF CR. 257, Lawrence, AL

Built 2016 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 587

CR. 150

Good

Over: CROOKED CREEK

0.5 MI SOUTH OF CR. 257, Lawrence, AL

Built 2016 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 587

COUNTY ROAD 87

Good

Over: BIG SHOALS CREEK

1.1 MI NE JCT CR 203, Lawrence, AL

Built 2007 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 1,233

CR 224

Good

Over: BIG SHOAL CREEK

0.1 MI SOUTH CR 227, Lawrence, AL

Built 2007 Load: 55.1 t ADT: 99

CR 377

Good

Over: Mallard Creek

_, Lawrence, AL

Built 2019 Load: 57.9 t ADT: 25

CR. 23

Good

Over: Borden Branch

1.10 MI SOUTH OF CR 24, Lawrence, AL

Built 2016 Load: 58.2 t ADT: 44

CR 165

Good

Over: Unnamed Stream

1.7 MI. W CO RT 236, Lawrence, AL

Built 2018 Load: 61.4 t ADT: 35

CR 460

Good

Over: TROUBLESOME CREEK

3.8 MI W JCT SR 101, Lawrence, AL

Built 1929 Load: 62.3 t ADT: 4,130

CR 136

Good

Over: FINNEY BRANCH

277 FT WEST OF CR 134 INT, Lawrence, AL

Built 2016 Load: 62.5 t ADT: 186

CO RT 214

Good

Over: UNNAMED BRANCH

0.5 MI E JCT CO RT 305, Lawrence, AL

Built 1955 Load: 63.2 t ADT: 480

COUNTY ROAD 150

Good

Over: SANDY BRANCH

2.2 MILES SOUTH OF AL 20, Lawrence, AL

Built 2010 Load: 65.7 t ADT: 278

CO. RT. 298

Good

Over: TURKEY CREEK

1.1 MI E JCT SR 33, Lawrence, AL

Built 1994 Load: 66.0 t ADT: 120

SR 24

Good

Over: SLEDGE CREEK

2.7 M W JCT SR 24 & SR 33, Lawrence, AL

Built 1980 Load: 67.0 t ADT: 6,400

CO RT 91

Good

Over: ELAM CREEK

0.7 MI W JCT CO RT 190, Lawrence, AL

Built 1991 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 100

CO RT 12

Good

Over: EDDY CREEK

0.04 MI E JCT SR 33, Lawrence, AL

Built 1978 Load: 70.0 t ADT: 200

COUNTY ROAD 324

Good

Over: WILEY BRANCH

0.2 MI SW JCT CR 434, Lawrence, AL

Built 2003 Load: 71.1 t ADT: 96

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