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Crawford County, AR

248 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 22.2% rated Good, 70.2% Fair, 7.7% Poor.

248
Public bridges
22.2%
Good condition
7.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Crawford 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.

57th
of 75 on Poor share
7.7%
Poor-condition share
248
public highway bridges
1974
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.

Crawford County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Crawford County ranks #57 of 75 Arkansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.7%). Crawford County, Arkansas contains 248 public highway bridges. Roughly 22.2% are rated “Good,” 70.2% “Fair,” and 7.7% “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

248

Public highway bridges in Crawford County

Good condition

22.2%

55 of 248 rated 7-9

Fair condition

70.2%

174 of 248 rated 5-6

Poor condition

7.7%

19 of 248 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#57 of 75

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

Condition distribution

Share of 248 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
22.2% (55)
Fair
70.2% (174)
Poor
7.7% (19)

Crawford County's Poor-condition bridges carry 69,788 vehicle crossings a day

That is 4.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,673 crossings a day against 4,366 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 248 of 248 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

52.4% of Crawford County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

130 of the 248 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 22.2% 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 21.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

I-40 EB-Crawford over Little Frog Bayou, built 1965, carries 15,000 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 19-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 69,788 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Crawford County's bridges were built

248 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 69 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1974, 6 years older than the Arkansas average of 1980.

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

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

The 5 Arkansas counties nearest Crawford County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.7% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1981 is 7 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Crawford County and the 5 Arkansas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Greene County 251 3.2%
Crawford County (this page) 248 7.7%
Crittenden County 235 7.7%
Saline County 231 3.9%
Yell County 227 1.3%
Hot Spring County 222 5%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AR (248 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside AR (1974 here).

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

All 248 Good 55 Fair 174 Poor 19

Poor-condition bridges (19)

Shiloh Rd-Craw. Co

Poor

Over: Webber Creek

4.86 MI EAST SH 220, Crawford, AR

Built 1988 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 1,519

Sunnyside Rd

Poor

Over: Union Pacific RRCrawford

0.21 MI SO OF US 64, Crawford, AR

Built 1952 Load: 4.5 t ADT: 1,252

Industrial Park Rd

Poor

Over: Flat Rock Creek-Crawford

1.38 MI E JCT I-540, Crawford, AR

Built 1964 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 7,700

State Highway 282

Poor

Over: Frog Bayou-Crawford Co.

3.06 MI N OF US71 & 15, Crawford, AR

Built 1935 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 190

Vine Prairie Rd

Poor

Over: CottonwoodSloughCrawford

2.4 MI SO OF US 64, Crawford, AR

Built 1965 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 120

N Hamtown Rd

Poor

Over: Vine Prairie-Crawford Co

1.46 MI NO OF CR 59 & 56, Crawford, AR

Built 1938 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 80

US 64B-Crawford Co

Poor

Over: Little Frog Bayou

0.2 MI N JCT SH 162 & 64, Crawford, AR

Built 1929 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 1,900

SH 162-Crawford Co

Poor

Over: Frog Bayou

2.2 MI S JCT US 64, Crawford, AR

Built 1966 Load: 20.9 t ADT: 1,700

US 64-Crawford Co.

Poor

Over: Big Mulberry River

1 MI E JCT 215 IN MULBERY, Crawford, AR

Built 1929 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 1,810

Winfrey Valley Cut

Poor

Over: Jones Fork Ck-Crawford

2.19 M E US HWY 71, Crawford, AR

Built 1936 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 415

Jefferson St-Craw.

Poor

Over: 3rd 1st & AR & MO RR

Van Buren, Crawford, AR

Built 1936 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 35

US Hwy 64-Crawford

Poor

Over: Little Mulberry Creek

9.50 E JCT HWY 71, Crawford, AR

Built 1928 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 3,001

US 64 WB-Crawford

Poor

Over: Frog Bayou Relief

0.5 W JCT US 71&64 Crawf, Crawford, AR

Built 1950 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 13,683

SH 282-SEC 1

Poor

Over: I 40-SEC 11-Crawford Co.

0.35 MI N US 64, Crawford, AR

Built 1963 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,500

S 28th Street

Poor

Over: I 540 - Crawford Co.

1.36 MI N SEB CO LN, Crawford, AR

Built 1967 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,710

State Highway 215

Poor

Over: I 40-SEC 11

1.89 MI N US 64 JCT, Crawford, AR

Built 1967 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,293

US 64-SEC 2 WB LN

Poor

Over: I 540-SEC 2-Crawford Co.

JCT. HWY 64 71 & 540, Crawford, AR

Built 1967 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,440

U.S. Highway 64 EB

Poor

Over: Interstate 540-Crawford

JCT. HWY 64 71 & I540, Crawford, AR

Built 1967 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,440

I-40 EB-Crawford

Poor

Over: Little Frog Bayou

13.38 MI E OKLAHOMA ST LI, Crawford, AR

Built 1965 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 15,000

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