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Perry County, AR

118 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 60.2% rated Good, 38.1% Fair, 1.7% Poor.

118
Public bridges
60.2%
Good condition
1.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Perry County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 13%
lowest Poor share in state
1.7%
Poor-condition share
118
public highway bridges
1968
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.

Perry County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Perry County ranks #10 of 75 Arkansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.7%). Perry County, Arkansas contains 118 public highway bridges. Roughly 60.2% are rated “Good,” 38.1% “Fair,” and 1.7% “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

118

Public highway bridges in Perry County

Good condition

60.2%

71 of 118 rated 7-9

Fair condition

38.1%

45 of 118 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.7%

2 of 118 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#10 of 75

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

Condition distribution

Share of 118 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
60.2% (71)
Fair
38.1% (45)
Poor
1.7% (2)

Perry County's Poor-condition bridges carry 66 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 33 crossings a day against 897 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 118 of 118 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

55.1% of Perry County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

65 of the 118 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 60.2% 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 51.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

Wallace Bridge Rd over Fourche La Fave River, built 1909, carries 34 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 66 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Perry County's bridges were built

118 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1968, 12 years older than the Arkansas average of 1980.

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

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

The 5 Arkansas counties nearest Perry County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1968 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 10 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Perry County and the 5 Arkansas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Conway County 122 0%
Carroll County 119 2.5%
Grant County 119 1.7%
Perry County (this page) 118 1.7%
Howard County 116 3.4%
Calhoun County 114 5.3%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AR (118 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside AR (1968 here).

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

All 118 Good 71 Fair 45 Poor 2

Good-condition bridges (71)

FDR 86

Good

Over: LITTLE CEDAR CREEK

4.7 MI E OF HWY 7, Perry, AR

Built 1981 Load: 30.5 t ADT: 50

FDR 86

Good

Over: CEDAR CREEK

5.9 MI E OF HWY 7, Perry, AR

Built 1981 Load: 30.5 t ADT: 50

CR245-Baylor House

Good

Over: Rankin Creek

.95 M N Jct SH 300, Perry, AR

Built 2020 Load: 31.8 t ADT: 100

Casa Mtn. Rd

Good

Over: Big Creek

1.05 NE JCT SH 10 & CR30, Perry, AR

Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 127

Wades Crossing Rd

Good

Over: Rocky Cypress

.22 MI N F SH 10, Perry, AR

Built 1985 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 170

German Rd

Good

Over: Rocky Cypress Creek

.34 Mi N.W. of Perry, Perry, AR

Built 1993 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 190

SH 300

Good

Over: Rankin Creek

1.41 MI W JCT SH 113, Perry, AR

Built 1971 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 500

SH 300

Good

Over: Caney Creek

.66 MI E JCT SH 216, Perry, AR

Built 1971 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 500

SH 324

Good

Over: Little Rose Creek

2.11 MI N JCT 10 & 324, Perry, AR

Built 1991 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 360

SH 324

Good

Over: Rose Creek

3.6 MI N SH 10, Perry, AR

Built 1991 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 360

SH 10

Good

Over: Big Branch

0.5 MI E JCT SH 9, Perry, AR

Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,000

SH 9

Good

Over: MAUMELLE RIVER

4.15 MI NW of Saline Co, Perry, AR

Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,606

SH 9

Good

Over: Maumelle River

1.75 MI NW JCT OF SH 324, Perry, AR

Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,800

SH 10

Good

Over: Grace Creek

2.51 MI E OF YELL CO LINE, Perry, AR

Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,700

SH 7

Good

Over: Bear Creek

7.09 M N Garland Co Line, Perry, AR

Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,100

SH 7

Good

Over: So Fourche Lafave River

9.04 M N Garland Co Line, Perry, AR

Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,100

AR Hwy 7

Good

Over: Dry Fork Creek

3.20 MI N Garland Co Line, Perry, AR

Built 2020 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 680

Stony Point Rd

Good

Over: BALLARD CREEK

4.8 MI E JCT SH 113, Perry, AR

Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 120

SH 216

Good

Over: Coffee Creek

0.9 MI E JCT SH 9 & 216, Perry, AR

Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,400

SH 155

Good

Over: Creek

4.46 Mi N Jct SH 10 & 155, Perry, AR

Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 150

FDR 86

Good

Over: WRIGHT BRANCH

1.7 MI E OF HWY 7, Perry, AR

Built 1981 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 100

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.