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Baker County, FL

93 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 26.9% rated Good, 64.5% Fair, 8.6% Poor.

93
Public bridges: 26.9%
Good condition: 8.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Baker 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.

57th
of 67 on Poor share: 8.6%
Poor-condition share: 93
public highway bridges: 1966
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.

Baker County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Baker County ranks #57 of 67 Florida counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.6%). Baker County, Florida contains 93 public highway bridges. Roughly 26.9% are rated “Good,” 64.5% “Fair,” and 8.6% “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 Baker County

Good condition

26.9%

25 of 93 rated 7-9

Fair condition

64.5%

60 of 93 rated 5-6

Poor condition

8.6%

8 of 93 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#57 of 67

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

Condition distribution

Share of 93 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

26.9% (25)

Fair

64.5% (60)

Poor

8.6% (8)

Baker County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,779 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,097 crossings a day against 5,782 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 93 of 93 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

74.2% of Baker County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

69 of the 93 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 26.9% 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 75.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CR 125 over DAUGHERTY BRANCH, built 1951, carries 6,600 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 8,779 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

2
1940s

11
1950s

23
1960s

25
1970s

12
1980s

3
1990s

8
2000s

4
2010s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 25 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1966, 17 years older than the Florida average of 1983.

How Baker County compares with Florida's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Florida counties nearest Baker County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.6% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1966 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 13 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 66 Florida counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Baker County and the 5 Florida counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Monroe County	100	34%	59%	7%	1978
Washington County	99	43.4%	46.5%	10.1%	1984
Baker County (this page)	93	26.9%	64.5%	8.6%	1966
Clay County	90	47.8%	48.9%	3.3%	1984
Taylor County	90	32.2%	58.9%	8.9%	1963
Hendry County	87	66.7%	29.9%	3.4%	1985

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside FL (93 bridges here).

Banks County, GA · 93 bridges
Haralson County, GA · 93 bridges
Alexander County, IL · 93 bridges
Stark County, IL · 93 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside FL (1966 here).

Butler County, KS · avg 1966 · 591 bridges
Grafton County, NH · avg 1966 · 544 bridges
Queens County, NY · avg 1966 · 514 bridges
Lehigh County, PA · avg 1966 · 381 bridges

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

All 93 Good 25 Fair 60 Poor 8

Fair-condition bridges (60)

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Baker County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Baker County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,779 vehicle crossings a day

74.2% of Baker County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 75.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Baker County compares with Florida's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (60)

Road 6

ROAD 24

ROAD 26

TURNER CEMETERY RD

HAMP REGISTER ROAD

CR 127 EXTENSION

HAMP REGISTER RD

HARLEY THRIFT ROAD

CR 250

CR 125

CR 125

SAND HILL RD

SAND HILL ROAD

HASSIE JOHNS RD

CR 23C

FSR 200

JOHN WILLIAMS RD

Eddy Road CR-250

CR 250

CR 23C

CR-229

CHESTNUT ROAD

CR 122

CR 125

CR 127

SR-228

SR-2

SR-2

SR 94

CR 231

I-10 SR-8

CR 125

SR-2

SR-2

I-10 WB SR-8

I-10 WB SR-8

I-10 EB SR-8

I-10 EB SR-8

SR 23

US-90 (SR-10)

SR-121

US-90 (SR-10)

CR-130

US-90 (SR-10)

I-10 WB SR-8

I-10 EB SR-8

Forest Road 6

CR 127

I-10 SR-8

MID PRONG ST MARYS

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