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Nevada County, AR

133 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 38.3% rated Good, 57.1% Fair, 4.5% Poor.

133
Public bridges: 38.3%
Good condition: 4.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 45%
lowest Poor share in state: 4.5%
Poor-condition share: 133
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.

Nevada County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Nevada County ranks #34 of 75 Arkansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.5%). Nevada County, Arkansas contains 133 public highway bridges. Roughly 38.3% are rated “Good,” 57.1% “Fair,” and 4.5% “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

133

Public highway bridges in Nevada County

Good condition

38.3%

51 of 133 rated 7-9

Fair condition

57.1%

76 of 133 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.5%

6 of 133 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#34 of 75

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

Condition distribution

Share of 133 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

38.3% (51)

Fair

57.1% (76)

Poor

4.5% (6)

Nevada County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,007 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 668 crossings a day against 774 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 133 of 133 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

56.4% of Nevada County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

75 of the 133 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 38.3% 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 77.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SH 53 SEC.02-0.001 over LITTLE MISSOURI RIVER, built 1964, carries 3,100 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 4,007 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

6
1930s

9
1940s

2
1950s

10
1960s

29
1970s

32
1980s

13
1990s

15
2000s

8
2010s

7
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 32 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1974, 6 years older than the Arkansas average of 1980.

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

The 5 Arkansas counties nearest Nevada County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.5% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Nevada County and the 5 Arkansas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Franklin County	143	25.2%	65.7%	9.1%	1965
Jackson County	136	49.3%	42.6%	8.1%	1977
Nevada County (this page)	133	38.3%	57.1%	4.5%	1974
Columbia County	131	54.2%	43.5%	2.3%	1983
Cross County	129	38%	50.4%	11.6%	1979
Lawrence County	126	55.6%	35.7%	8.7%	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 Nevada 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 Nevada County, both outside Arkansas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AR (133 bridges here).

Henry County, AL · 133 bridges
Gordon County, GA · 133 bridges
East Feliciana County, LA · 133 bridges
Howard County, MO · 133 bridges

Similar average build year

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

Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges

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

All 133 Good 51 Fair 76 Poor 6

All bridges (133)

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Nevada County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Nevada County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,007 vehicle crossings a day

56.4% of Nevada County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 77.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Nevada 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 (133)

US 371 SEC 4 -3.00

SH 19-SEC 5-1.80

C.R.37 ZONE E-6.93

US 67 - 03 - 1.56

US 67 - 03 - 1.71

SH 299 - 01- 4.92

SH 299 - 01 - 5.09

US 371 SEC 5- 3.68

SH 19 - 05 - 0.30

SH 53 - 02- 0.79

C.R 35 - D - 6.32

CO RD 38 - G -0.93

C.R 249- D - 1.13

CR 220 - E- 1.40

I 30 WB-13-52.27

I 30 WB LNS-52.55

I-30-13-52.97 W.B.

I 30 WB LNS 50.49

I-30 EB-13-52.27

I-30 EB LNS-52.55

I-30-13-52.97 E.B.

I-30 E.B.L-50.49

SH 32 SEC.09-3.78

SH 355 -05 -4.18

SH 73 - 04 - 2.52

SH 73 - 04- 0.64

I-30 Frtg.Rd.42.45

C.R. 7 ZONE I-7.27

SH 24-SEC 05-2.17

SH 53 SEC. 3-12.83

SH 53 - 02 - 1.95

SH 24 SEC.05-11.57

SH 76- 01-3.33

CR #14 - F - 1.99

CR 323 - G - 2.22

C.R. 23- G - 3.14

CR 23 - G - 8.36

US 278 -07 - 22.14

SH 332 - 07 - 1.80

SH 53 SEC. 03-2.80

C.R.35-ZONE E-0.98

SH 299 - 02 -10.32

SH 19-SEC 5 -9.30

SH 299 - 02- 0.74

SH 32 - 08 - 3.20

S.H. 200-02-1.50

US 67 - 03 - 8.84

CR 14 - F - 2.07

C.R. 14 - F - 3.06

CO.RD. 5 - H- 4.71

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