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Chicot County, AR

88 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.9% rated Good, 50% Fair, 9.1% Poor.

88
Public bridges: 40.9%
Good condition: 9.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Chicot County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

63rd
of 75 on Poor share: 9.1%
Poor-condition share: 88
public highway bridges: 1973
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.

Chicot County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Chicot County ranks #63 of 75 Arkansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.1%). Chicot County, Arkansas contains 88 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.9% are rated “Good,” 50% “Fair,” and 9.1% “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

Public highway bridges in Chicot County

Good condition

40.9%

36 of 88 rated 7-9

Fair condition

50%

44 of 88 rated 5-6

Poor condition

9.1%

8 of 88 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#63 of 75

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

Condition distribution

Share of 88 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

40.9% (36)

Fair

50% (44)

Poor

9.1% (8)

Chicot County's Poor-condition bridges carry 14,191 vehicle crossings a day

That is 12.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,774 crossings a day against 1,679 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 88 of 88 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

60.2% of Chicot County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

53 of the 88 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 40.9% 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 28.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US 65-21 LM 7.52 over Bayou Macon, built 1946, carries 4,100 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 14,191 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

6
1940s

6
1950s

16
1960s

18
1970s

10
1980s

6
1990s

13
2000s

5
2010s

8

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 18 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1973, 7 years older than the Arkansas average of 1980.

How Chicot County compares with Arkansas's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Arkansas counties nearest Chicot County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.1% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 6 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 74 Arkansas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Chicot County and the 5 Arkansas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Baxter County	91	62.6%	37.4%	0%	1984
Prairie County	88	39.8%	50%	10.2%	1973
Chicot County (this page)	88	40.9%	50%	9.1%	1973
Monroe County	85	55.3%	37.6%	7.1%	1975
Desha County	83	55.4%	39.8%	4.8%	1984
Little River County	83	54.2%	38.6%	7.2%	1979

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AR (88 bridges here).

Grand County, CO · 88 bridges
Spalding County, GA · 88 bridges
Boise County, ID · 88 bridges
Clearwater County, ID · 88 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside AR (1973 here).

Jefferson County, AL · avg 1973 · 1,068 bridges
Erie County, NY · avg 1973 · 906 bridges
Davidson County, TN · avg 1973 · 832 bridges
Lancaster County, PA · avg 1973 · 801 bridges

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

All 88 Good 36 Fair 44 Poor 8

All bridges (88)

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Chicot County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Chicot County's Poor-condition bridges carry 14,191 vehicle crossings a day

60.2% of Chicot County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 28.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Chicot County compares with Arkansas's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (88)

CR30/Ruby McGehee

CR332/LakeWallace

CR203/Griffis Road

CR 18/New Bill Rd

CR 144 (off SH144)

SH 8-16 LM 6.87

SH 35-09 LM 5.95

SH 52-03 LM 4.31

CR 317/Little Lake

SH 144-02 LM 5.70

SH 144-02 LM 6.01

SH 160-12 LM 2.37

SH 8-16 LM 7.12

SH 52-03 LM 7.49

CR 8/Ball Road

CR 22/JennieCutoff

SH 160-12 LM 5.41

SH 52-03 LM 2.65

SH 8-16 LM 10.30

SH 208-03 LM 5.78

SH 144-02 LM 1.86

SH 208-01 LM 3.87

SH 208-03 LM 5.22

CR 48/County Line

US 82-10 LM 0.05

SH 160-12 LM 3.60

US 82-10 LM 8.95

CR 64/MaconLakeRd

US 82-10 LM 9.62

SH 208-03 LM 2.54

US 82-10 LM 3.94

SH 35-09 LM 2.47

SH 160-12 LM 9.82

CR 75/ Red Leaf Rd

CR 241/Cyrier Rd

SH 165-03 LM 7.82

CR 76/Shuler Rd

CR 69

SH 144-03 LM 2.23

US 82

US 82-11 LM 1.87

CR27/ 16th Sect Rd

CR233/McCulloughRd

SH 8-17 LM 1.7

CR 6/Hanna Rd

SH 159-01 LM 4.79

US 82-10 LM 5.08

US 65-22 LM 6.25

US 65-21 LM 5.71

US 65-22 LM 5.85

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