Total bridges
110
Public highway bridges in Sharp County
County profile · official public datasets
Sharp County, AR
110 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 38.2% rated Good, 56.4% Fair, 5.5% Poor.
- 110
- Public bridges
- 38.2%
- Good condition
- 5.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Sharp 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.
- 44th
- of 75 on Poor share
- 5.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 110
- public highway bridges
- 1975
- 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.
Sharp County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Sharp County ranks #44 of 75 Arkansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.5%). Sharp County, Arkansas contains 110 public highway bridges. Roughly 38.2% are rated “Good,” 56.4% “Fair,” and 5.5% “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.
Good condition
38.2%
42 of 110 rated 7-9
Fair condition
56.4%
62 of 110 rated 5-6
Poor condition
5.5%
6 of 110 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#44 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 38.2% (42)
Fair 56.4% (62)
Poor 5.5% (6)
Sharp County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,547 vehicle crossings a day
That is 5.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,425 crossings a day against 1,377 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.
49.1% of Sharp County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
54 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 38.2% 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 73.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US 63/Sharp Co. over MARTIN CREEK, built 1961, carries 6,300 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 8,547 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Sharp County's bridges were built
110 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 2
1910–1919
2 bridges
- 1920s 6
1920–1929
6 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
15 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
10 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
10 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
13 bridges
- 1980s 8
1980–1989
8 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
13 bridges
- 2000s 7
2000–2009
7 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
22 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 22 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1975, 5 years older than the Arkansas average of 1980.
How Sharp County compares with Arkansas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Arkansas counties nearest Sharp County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.5% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1982 is 7 years older.
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 |
| Lincoln County | 110 | 57.3% | 39.1% | 3.6% | 1986 |
| Sharp County (this page) | 110 | 38.2% | 56.4% | 5.5% | 1975 |
| 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 Sharp 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 Sharp 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 (1975 here).
- San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
- Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
- Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
- Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (6)
CR 1048/Griffin Rd
PoorOver: S FORK SPRING RIVER
.12 MI E SH 175, Sharp, AR
Built 1965 Load: 5.4 t ADT: 569
Cammack Rd SHARP
PoorOver: TOWN BRANCH
.12 M S MAIN ST, Sharp, AR
Built 1975 Load: 5.4 t ADT: 91
US 63/Sharp Co.
PoorOver: MARTIN CREEK
.5 MI E JCT OF SH 58 63, Sharp, AR
Built 1961 Load: 10.0 t ADT: 6,300
SH 115 Sharp Co.
PoorOver: BIG CREEK
1.35 MI W OF LAWRENCE CO, Sharp, AR
Built 1967 Load: 10.0 t ADT: 1,000
CR/31 Sharp County
PoorOver: Strawberry River
.24 miles NW of SH 58, Sharp, AR
Built 1935 Load: 10.0 t ADT: 37
SH 58 Sharp County
PoorOver: BIG CREEK
1.13 MI N JCT OF SH 115, Sharp, AR
Built 1934 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 550
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