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Baldwin County, GA

77 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 85.7% rated Good, 14.3% Fair, 0% Poor.

77
Public bridges: 85.7%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Baldwin County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 16%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 77
public highway bridges: 1979
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.

Baldwin County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Baldwin County ranks #25 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Baldwin County, Georgia contains 77 public highway bridges. Roughly 85.7% are rated “Good,” 14.3% “Fair,” and 0% “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 Baldwin County

Good condition

85.7%

66 of 77 rated 7-9

Fair condition

14.3%

11 of 77 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 77 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#25 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 77 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

85.7% (66)

Fair

14.3% (11)

Poor

0% (0)

42.9% of Baldwin County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

33 of the 77 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 85.7% 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.

1930s

1
1940s

3
1950s

17
1960s

9
1970s

7
1980s

16
1990s

10
2000s

2
2010s

9
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 17 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Georgia average (1977).

How Baldwin County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Baldwin County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Baldwin County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Bryan County	78	67.9%	32.1%	0%	1979
Macon County	78	76.9%	23.1%	0%	1977
Appling County	77	81.8%	18.2%	0%	1977
Baldwin County (this page)	77	85.7%	14.3%	0%	1979
Screven County	76	72.4%	26.3%	1.3%	1974
Washington County	76	93.4%	6.6%	0%	1980

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (77 bridges here).

Clear Creek County, CO · 77 bridges
Liberty County, FL · 77 bridges
Cass County, IL · 77 bridges
Wolfe County, KY · 77 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1979 here).

Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges

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

All 77 Good 66 Fair 11 Poor 0

All bridges (77)

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Baldwin County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

42.9% of Baldwin County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Baldwin County compares with Georgia'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 (77)

HALL STREET

SIMMON AVENUE

COX-WOODLAND ROAD

PANCRAS ROAD

SR 22

SR 24

SR 22 (EBL)

SR 212

BROWNS CROSSING RO

SR 24

SR 29 (NBL) - US 4

SR 29 (SBL) - US 4

SR 243

SR 243

SR 22

SR 243

SR 243

MINOR ROAD

PETTIGREW ROAD

ROBERTS ROAD

BARROWS FERRY RD

SR 22

BONNER ROAD

E ANDREWS STREET

CORDS BRIDGE ROAD

SR 540

BONNER ROAD

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