Total bridges
596
Public highway bridges in Montgomery County
County profile · official public datasets
Montgomery County, AL
596 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 37.9% rated Good, 59.9% Fair, 2.2% Poor.
- 596
- Public bridges
- 37.9%
- Good condition
- 2.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Montgomery County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across large county bridge inventory.
- Top 40%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 596
- public highway bridges
- 1975
- 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.
Montgomery County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Montgomery County ranks #27 of 67 Alabama counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.2%). Montgomery County, Alabama contains 596 public highway bridges. Roughly 37.9% are rated “Good,” 59.9% “Fair,” and 2.2% “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
37.9%
226 of 596 rated 7-9
Fair condition
59.9%
357 of 596 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.2%
13 of 596 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#27 of 67
Among Alabama counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 596 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 37.9% (226)
Fair 59.9% (357)
Poor 2.2% (13)
Montgomery County's Poor-condition bridges carry 255,818 vehicle crossings a day
That is 4.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 21,318 crossings a day against 1,362 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 576 of 596 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
46.7% of Montgomery County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
274 of the 587 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 37.9% 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 40.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
I-85 over S JACKSON ST, built 1969, carries 104,310 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 13-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 255,818 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Montgomery County's bridges were built
587 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 3
1900–1909
3 bridges
- 1920s 9
1920–1929
9 bridges
- 1930s 8
1930–1939
8 bridges
- 1940s 15
1940–1949
15 bridges
- 1950s 28
1950–1959
28 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
149 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
92 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
94 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
138 bridges
- 2000s 34
2000–2009
34 bridges
- 2010s 16
2010–2019
16 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 149 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 25.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Alabama average (1974).
How Montgomery County compares with Alabama's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Alabama counties nearest Montgomery County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.2% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 66 Alabama counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison County | 710 | 41.8% | 56.9% | 1.3% | 1972 |
| Mobile County | 612 | 21.1% | 76.1% | 2.8% | 1980 |
| Montgomery County (this page) | 596 | 37.9% | 59.9% | 2.2% | 1975 |
| Tuscaloosa County | 482 | 44.6% | 54.8% | 0.6% | 1981 |
| Calhoun County | 386 | 32.9% | 63.2% | 3.9% | 1969 |
| Baldwin County | 381 | 48.3% | 50.4% | 1.3% | 1991 |
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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery County, both outside Alabama so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside AL (596 bridges here).
- Comanche County, OK · 593 bridges
- Butler County, KS · 591 bridges
- Dane County, WI · 590 bridges
- Tulare County, CA · 589 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside AL (1975 here).
- San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
- Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
- Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
- Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (357)
NARROW LANE RD
FairOver: STREAM
0.1 MI.N.OF SEIBELS RD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1948 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 900
FOXHALL DRIVE
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
1.0 MI N R.THORNINGTON RD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1970 Load: 17.0 t ADT: 218
OLD SELMA RD.
FairOver: PINTLALA CREEK
PINTLALA CREEK AT CO LINE, Montgomery, AL
Built 1954 Load: 17.7 t ADT: 2,000
SEIBELS RD
FairOver: HANNON SLOUGH
0.2 MI W OF NARROW LANE, Montgomery, AL
Built 1964 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 600
DAY ST
FairOver: CSX RR
0.25 MI W OF AIRBASE BLVD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1943 Load: 18.3 t ADT: 13,600
FEDERAL ROAD
FairOver: PINCHONY CREEK
2.0 MI E LOWNDES COLINE, Montgomery, AL
Built 1968 Load: 18.6 t ADT: 425
HOBBIE ROAD
FairOver: RAMER CREEK
3.3 MI N S-94 RAMER, Montgomery, AL
Built 1974 Load: 18.6 t ADT: 525
OLD SELMA RD
FairOver: CATOMA CREEK RELIEF
0.9 MI.W. HUNTER LOOP RD., Montgomery, AL
Built 1946 Load: 18.9 t ADT: 2,600
NARROW LANE RD
FairOver: STREAM
0.3 MI.N.OF SEIBELS RD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1948 Load: 19.1 t ADT: 900
US 82 WBL
FairOver: SCL RR
1.1 MI E OF I65, Montgomery, AL
Built 1955 Load: 19.3 t ADT: 17,650
US 82 EBL
FairOver: SCL RR
1.1 MI.E.OF I65, Montgomery, AL
Built 1955 Load: 19.3 t ADT: 17,650
OLD SELMA RD
FairOver: CATOMA CREEK RELIEF
0.8 MI.W. HUNTER LOOP RD., Montgomery, AL
Built 1946 Load: 19.8 t ADT: 2,600
LAMAR RD
FairOver: CANEY BRANCH
0.45 MI S OF US 80, Montgomery, AL
Built 1960 Load: 20.1 t ADT: 500
CARTER HILL RD
FairOver: DRAINAGE RELIEF
3.7 MI N OF US 82, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 20.1 t ADT: 425
CARTER HILL ROAD
FairOver: BULLARD SLOUGH
3.4 MI N OF US 82, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 20.1 t ADT: 425
FEDERAL ROAD
FairOver: DRAINAGE RELIEF
2.1 MI. E OF LOWNDES CO., Montgomery, AL
Built 1968 Load: 20.3 t ADT: 425
SNWDN-CHAMBERS RD.
FairOver: DRAINAGE RELIEF
2.8 MILE EAST CO RD61, Montgomery, AL
Built 1983 Load: 20.3 t ADT: 400
U.S 31 SBL
FairOver: ALABAMA RIVER
0.6 MI. S. OF ELMORE CO L, Montgomery, AL
Built 2001 Load: 20.5 t ADT: 10,450
AL 152 EBL
FairOver: I-65
0.4 MI W ALA.RIVER, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 21.0 t ADT: 16,210
I-85
FairOver: W JEFF DAVIS * I-65
I85 AND I65 INTERCHANGE, Montgomery, AL
Built 1973 Load: 21.5 t ADT: 2,211
TROTMAN ROAD
FairOver: CATOMA CREEK
1.6 MI E OF WOODLEYRD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1958 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 1,000
I65 NBL
FairOver: STREAM
2.5 MI.S.OF US 31, Montgomery, AL
Built 1965 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 16,060
I65 SBL
FairOver: STREAM
2.5 MI.S.OF US.31, Montgomery, AL
Built 1965 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 16,060
OLD SELMA RD
FairOver: CATOMA CREEK
0.7 MI.W. HUNTER LOOP RD., Montgomery, AL
Built 1946 Load: 22.2 t ADT: 2,600
WASDEN RD.
FairOver: PINTLALA CRK
BR. ON LOWNDES-MONTGCOLIN, Montgomery, AL
Built 1961 Load: 22.2 t ADT: 650
US 231 SBL
FairOver: TALLAPOOSA RIVER
MONTGOMERY ELMORE CO LINE, Montgomery, AL
Built 1955 Load: 22.3 t ADT: 16,115
DICKINSON DR
FairOver: THREE MILE BRANCH
0.6 MI W OF TURNER BLVD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1961 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 28,150
I65 NBL / SBL
FairOver: AL.RIVER RELIEF NO 2
1.2 MI.N.OF AL.RIVER, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 40,620
I65 NBL/SBL
FairOver: AL.RIVER RELIEF NO.4
1.9 MI.N.OF AL.RIVER, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 40,620
I65 NBL/SBL
FairOver: AL.RIVER RELIEF NO 5
2.2 MI.N.OF AL.RIVER, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 40,620
I65 SBL
FairOver: AL.RIVER RELIEF NO 6
2.5 MI.N.OF AL.RIVER, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 40,620
I65 SBL
FairOver: AL.RIVER RELIEF NO.7
2.8 MI.OF AL.RIVER, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 40,620
I-65
FairOver: AL.RIVER RLF.8 * AL 143
3.5 MI.N.OF AL.RIVER, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 23.4 t ADT: 40,620
WARES FERRY RD
FairOver: HOLY WATER CREEK
0.3 MI W OF EASTERN BLVD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1967 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 3,500
AL 152 WBL
FairOver: I-65
0.4 MI W AL RIVER BR, Montgomery, AL
Built 1972 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 16,210
W DELANO AVE.
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
0.15 MI W OF S COURT ST, Montgomery, AL
Built 1948 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,000
E AUDUBON RD.
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
150FT S OF PORTLAND AVE, Montgomery, AL
Built 1948 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,000
W PATTON AVE
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
0.14 MI W OF S COURT ST, Montgomery, AL
Built 1948 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,000
W FAIRVIEW AVE
FairOver: GENETTA DITCH
0.1 MI E OF I-65, Montgomery, AL
Built 1925 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 25,000
WARES FERRY RD
FairOver: FROGGY BOTTOM POND
0.25 MI E OF CNTRYSIDE LN, Montgomery, AL
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,200
AL 126
FairOver: I85
WAUGH EXIT, Montgomery, AL
Built 1962 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,240
MCGEHEE RD
FairOver: BALDWIN SLOUGH
0.17 MI N OF EASTERN BLVD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 12,500
AL 21
FairOver: GENETTA DITCH
0.4 MI W OF I65, Montgomery, AL
Built 1955 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 20,760
CO RD 43 (BELL RD)
FairOver: I85
1.3 MI.N.OF E BYPASS, Montgomery, AL
Built 1965 Load: 24.2 t ADT: 8,528
EMERALD MT RD
FairOver: TALLAPOOSA RIVER
EMERALD MT TOLL ROAD, Montgomery, AL
Built 1994 Load: 24.2 t ADT: 4,331
DUQUESNE DR
FairOver: SHERWOOD DITCH
200 FT W OF AVONDALE ST, Montgomery, AL
Built 1965 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 600
WOODLEY RD
FairOver: BALDWIN SLOUGH
0.25 MI N OF KNOLLWOOD DR, Montgomery, AL
Built 1979 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 5,000
S COURT ST
FairOver: I85
0.8 MI N OF I65, Montgomery, AL
Built 1965 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 13,541
LAWRENCE ST
FairOver: I85
1.0 MI N OF I65, Montgomery, AL
Built 1966 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 3,747
I65 SBL
FairOver: CATOMA CREEK
1.4 MI.S.OF SOU.BLVD., Montgomery, AL
Built 1966 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 32,555
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