Total bridges
214
Public highway bridges in Lee County
County profile · official public datasets
Lee County, AL
214 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.7% rated Good, 57.9% Fair, 1.4% Poor.
- 214
- Public bridges
- 40.7%
- Good condition
- 1.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lee County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 27%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 1.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 214
- public highway bridges
- 1980
- 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.
Lee County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lee County ranks #18 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.4%). Lee County, Alabama contains 214 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.7% are rated “Good,” 57.9% “Fair,” and 1.4% “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.
Good condition
40.7%
87 of 214 rated 7-9
Fair condition
57.9%
124 of 214 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.4%
3 of 214 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#18 of 67
Among Alabama counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 214 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40.7% (87)
Fair 57.9% (124)
Poor 1.4% (3)
Lee County's Poor-condition bridges carry 76,340 vehicle crossings a day
That is 6.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 25,447 crossings a day against 5,141 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 214 of 214 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
44.9% of Lee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
96 of the 214 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 40.7% 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 53.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
I-85 over MOORES MILL CREEK, built 1958, carries 40,660 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 76,340 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Lee County's bridges were built
214 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1930s 6
1930–1939
6 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
15 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
32 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
31 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
15 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
28 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
16 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
26 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
34 bridges
- 2020s 8
2020–2029
8 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 34 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 15.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1980, 6 years newer than the Alabama average of 1974.
How Lee County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Alabama counties nearest Lee County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.4% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 5 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Alabama counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coffee County | 216 | 58.3% | 41.2% | 0.5% | 1974 |
| Lawrence County | 215 | 52.1% | 45.1% | 2.8% | 1976 |
| Lee County (this page) | 214 | 40.7% | 57.9% | 1.4% | 1980 |
| Dale County | 206 | 42.7% | 57.3% | 0% | 1973 |
| Geneva County | 205 | 34.6% | 62% | 3.4% | 1976 |
| Russell County | 205 | 34.6% | 62.4% | 2.9% | 1974 |
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 Lee 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 Lee County, both outside Alabama so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside AL (214 bridges here).
- White County, IL · 214 bridges
- White County, IN · 214 bridges
- Lee County, IA · 214 bridges
- Wayne County, MS · 214 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1980 here).
- Tulsa County, OK · avg 1980 · 1,135 bridges
- Miami-Dade County, FL · avg 1980 · 1,057 bridges
- Pulaski County, AR · avg 1980 · 721 bridges
- McLennan County, TX · avg 1980 · 714 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (124)
Lee Road 217
FairOver: ROPES BRANCH
3.0 MI N MACON CO, Lee, AL
Built 1950 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 54
US 431
FairOver: CSX RAILROAD
0.5 MI N JCT US 29, Lee, AL
Built 1985 Load: 44.0 t ADT: 11,480
WAVERLY PKWY
FairOver: CREEK
WAVERLY PARKWAY, Lee, AL
Built 1940 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 2,000
Lee Road 318
FairOver: BRANCH
2.2 MI NW JCT LEE RD 248, Lee, AL
Built 1950 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 500
US 280
FairOver: LOBLOCKEE CREEK
2.5 MILES S OF WAVERLY, Lee, AL
Built 2000 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 5,650
SR38(US 280)EXIT58
FairOver: I-85
0.2MI S FREDERICK RD, Lee, AL
Built 1995 Load: 46.2 t ADT: 32,040
US 280
FairOver: BRANCH
2.5 MI N JCT CO 44, Lee, AL
Built 1929 Load: 46.7 t ADT: 18,080
Lee Road 177
FairOver: HALAWAKEE CREEK
1.6 MI N JCT S 015, Lee, AL
Built 2002 Load: 47.5 t ADT: 144
SR 51
FairOver: WATULA CREEK
1 MI N JCT US 80, Lee, AL
Built 1939 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 1,200
US 280
FairOver: BRANCH
TOWN OF OPELIKA, Lee, AL
Built 1929 Load: 51.4 t ADT: 20,950
Lee Road 175
FairOver: BRANCH
2 MI N JCT S 169, Lee, AL
Built 1948 Load: 54.1 t ADT: 682
Lee Road 85
FairOver: BRANCH
1.1 MI N RIDGE GROVE, Lee, AL
Built 1968 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 99
SR 51
FairOver: ROBINSON CREEK
1 MI SOUTH OF AL 169, Lee, AL
Built 2020 Load: 56.6 t ADT: 9,280
Lee Road 198
FairOver: STURKIE CREEK
1.3 MI E JCT LEE RD 175, Lee, AL
Built 1960 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 59
Lee Road 10
FairOver: PARKERSON MILL CREEK
1 MI E JCT S 015, Lee, AL
Built 1955 Load: 61.5 t ADT: 2,821
US 80
FairOver: BRANCH
1.9 MI E MACON CO LINE, Lee, AL
Built 1940 Load: 63.3 t ADT: 2,170
Lee Road 188
FairOver: LITTLE LOBLOCKEE
1 MI N OF JAMES, Lee, AL
Built 1951 Load: 65.3 t ADT: 428
US 431
FairOver: STREAM
0.7 MI N RUSSELL CO. LINE, Lee, AL
Built 1976 Load: 78.0 t ADT: 20,410
I-85
FairOver: STINK CREEK
1.8 MI N JCT US 29, Lee, AL
Built 1958 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 35,990
SR 38
FairOver: FRAZIER CREEK
1.0 MI W OF JCT SR 14, Lee, AL
Built 1961 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 13,330
I-85
FairOver: BRANCH
2.1 MI N JCT US 29, Lee, AL
Built 1964 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 33,600
I-85
FairOver: PARKERSON MILL CREEK
0.4 MI S JCT US 29, Lee, AL
Built 1965 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 31,570
AL147 / AL267
FairOver: BRANCH
0.6 MI E JCT US 29, Lee, AL
Built 1969 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 16,870
US29 / SR15
FairOver: BRANCH
7.5 MI N JCT I85, Lee, AL
Built 2010 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 2,790
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