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Woodruff County, AR

79 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.5% rated Good, 51.9% Fair, 7.6% Poor.

79
Public bridges: 40.5%
Good condition: 7.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Woodruff County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

55th
of 75 on Poor share: 7.6%
Poor-condition share: 79
public highway bridges: 1976
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.

Woodruff County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Woodruff County ranks #55 of 75 Arkansas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 7.6%). Woodruff County, Arkansas contains 79 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.5% are rated “Good,” 51.9% “Fair,” and 7.6% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Woodruff County

Good condition

40.5%

32 of 79 rated 7-9

Fair condition

51.9%

41 of 79 rated 5-6

Poor condition

7.6%

6 of 79 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#55 of 75

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

Condition distribution

Share of 79 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

40.5% (32)

Fair

51.9% (41)

Poor

7.6% (6)

Woodruff County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,645 vehicle crossings a day

That is 3.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 7.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 441 crossings a day against 687 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 79 of 79 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

46.8% of Woodruff County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

37 of the 79 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 40.5% 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 34.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

Sh-17/Sec-5/L4.65 over Cache River Relief, built 1948, carries 920 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 2,645 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

4
1940s

3
1950s

4
1960s

22
1970s

14
1980s

15
1990s

6
2000s

6
2010s

3
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 22 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 (1976) matches the Arkansas average (1980).

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

The 5 Arkansas counties nearest Woodruff County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 7.6% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Woodruff County and the 5 Arkansas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Monroe County	85	55.3%	37.6%	7.1%	1975
Desha County	83	55.4%	39.8%	4.8%	1984
Little River County	83	54.2%	38.6%	7.2%	1979
Cleveland County	79	48.1%	46.8%	5.1%	1970
Woodruff County (this page)	79	40.5%	51.9%	7.6%	1976
Stone County	73	39.7%	47.9%	12.3%	1973

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside AR (79 bridges here).

Barrow County, GA · 79 bridges
Edwards County, IL · 79 bridges
Grant County, KY · 79 bridges
Mora County, NM · 79 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside AR (1976 here).

Marion County, IN · avg 1976 · 958 bridges
Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
Prince George's County, MD · avg 1976 · 576 bridges

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

All 79 Good 32 Fair 41 Poor 6

Good-condition bridges (32)

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Woodruff County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Woodruff County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,645 vehicle crossings a day

46.8% of Woodruff County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 34.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Woodruff 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

Good-condition bridges (32)

Sh-145/Sec-4/L6.74

Us-64/Sec-14/L1.65

Sh-145/Sec-3/L1.20

Sh-145/Sec-3/L2.74

Cr-745/Z-F/L-3.4

Us-64B/Sec14b/4.62

Sh-33/Sec-7/L-0.75

Sh-306/Sec00/L3.43

Sh-17/Sec-4/L17.36

Cr-930/Z-E/L-2.27

Sh-33/Sec-7/L-0.93

Sh-38/Sec-3/L-1.08

Sh-17/Sec-4/L10.99

Cr-680/Z-A/L-5.07

Cr-385/Z-B/L-4.49

Cr-680/Z-A/L-1.52

Cr-930/Z-E/L-2.63

Cr-130/Z-C/L-1.28

Cr-790/Z-E/L-2.4

Cr-901/Z-E/L-4.95

Cr-318/Z-B/L-1.38

Cr-355/Z-B/L-1.81

Cr-790/Z-E/L-2.09

Sh-33/Sec-7/L-4.22

Sh-33/Sec-7/L-4.91

Sh-33/Sec-8/L-2.50

Sh-38/Sec-2/L-1.55

Us-64/Sec-13/L6.92

Us-64/Sec-13/L7.30

Cr-730/Z-F/L-2.11

Sh-33/Sec-7/L-0.19

Sh-38/Sec-2/L3.08

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