Total bridges
110
Public highway bridges in Lincoln County
County profile · official public datasets
Lincoln County, AR
110 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 57.3% rated Good, 39.1% Fair, 3.6% Poor.
- 110
- Public bridges
- 57.3%
- Good condition
- 3.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lincoln 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 39%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 3.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 110
- public highway bridges
- 1986
- 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.
Lincoln County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lincoln County ranks #29 of 75 Arkansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.6%). Lincoln County, Arkansas contains 110 public highway bridges. Roughly 57.3% are rated “Good,” 39.1% “Fair,” and 3.6% “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
57.3%
63 of 110 rated 7-9
Fair condition
39.1%
43 of 110 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3.6%
4 of 110 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#29 of 75
Among Arkansas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 110 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 57.3% (63)
Fair 39.1% (43)
Poor 3.6% (4)
Lincoln County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,017 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 504 crossings a day against 1,809 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 110 of 110 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
30.9% of Lincoln County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
34 of the 110 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 57.3% 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 59.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SH 388-01 LM 1.70 over Big Canal (Canal #19), built 1965, carries 1,200 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 2,017 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Lincoln County's bridges were built
110 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
10 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
17 bridges
- 1970s 7
1970–1979
7 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
13 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
21 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
21 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
15 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 21 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1986, 6 years newer than the Arkansas average of 1980.
How Lincoln County compares with Arkansas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Arkansas counties nearest Lincoln County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.6% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1986 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 6 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 74 Arkansas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calhoun County | 114 | 54.4% | 40.4% | 5.3% | 1985 |
| Sharp County | 110 | 38.2% | 56.4% | 5.5% | 1975 |
| Lincoln County (this page) | 110 | 57.3% | 39.1% | 3.6% | 1986 |
| Ashley County | 106 | 63.2% | 35.8% | 0.9% | 1981 |
| Bradley County | 105 | 58.1% | 38.1% | 3.8% | 1988 |
| Fulton County | 105 | 39% | 48.6% | 12.4% | 1969 |
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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln County, both outside Arkansas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside AR (110 bridges here).
- Jerome County, ID · 110 bridges
- Comanche County, KS · 110 bridges
- Powell County, KY · 110 bridges
- Washington County, ME · 110 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside AR (1986 here).
- El Paso County, TX · avg 1986 · 783 bridges
- Caddo County, LA · avg 1986 · 682 bridges
- Weld County, CO · avg 1986 · 614 bridges
- Polk County, IA · avg 1986 · 545 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (110)
SH 114-01 LM 5.05
GoodOver: Sanders Creek
0.4 Mi W SH 530-Star City, Lincoln, AR
Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,400
US 65-16 LM 13.06
GoodOver: Ditch
0.1 Mi N city limit-Gould, Lincoln, AR
Built 2011 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 6,300
SH 11-03 LM 21.03
GoodOver: Canal
4.1 Mi N US 65-Grady, Lincoln, AR
Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 80
SH 54-03 LM 4.59
GoodOver: Mills Bayou
@ Jct SH 293-GarrettBridg, Lincoln, AR
Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 740
SH 11-02S LM 3.09
GoodOver: Clear Creek
4.2 Mi W US 425-Star City, Lincoln, AR
Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 420
CR 120/Landmark Rd
GoodOver: Boyd Creek
0.4 Mi W CR51-Lancaster, Lincoln, AR
Built 2023 Load: 68.0 t ADT: 82
SH 11-03 LM 13.28
PoorOver: Deep Bayou
3.9 Mi S US 65-Grady, Lincoln, AR
Built 1949 Load: 4.5 t ADT: 412
SH 293-02 LM 0.16
PoorOver: Ladd Canal
0.16 Mi S SH 54-Dumas, Lincoln, AR
Built 1970 Load: 11.8 t ADT: 270
CR 21/Klondike Rd
PoorOver: Ten Mile Creek
0.3 Mi N DrewCo-Cornervil, Lincoln, AR
Built 1983 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 135
SH 388-01 LM 1.70
PoorOver: Big Canal (Canal #19)
1.70 Mi E US 65-Varner, Lincoln, AR
Built 1965 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 1,200
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