Total bridges
219
Public highway bridges in Bartow County
County profile · official public datasets
Bartow County, GA
219 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 67.1% rated Good, 30.6% Fair, 2.3% Poor.
- 219
- Public bridges
- 67.1%
- Good condition
- 2.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bartow County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 123rd
- of 159 on Poor share
- 2.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 219
- public highway bridges
- 1977
- 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.
Bartow County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bartow County ranks #123 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.3%). Bartow County, Georgia contains 219 public highway bridges. Roughly 67.1% are rated “Good,” 30.6% “Fair,” and 2.3% “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
67.1%
147 of 219 rated 7-9
Fair condition
30.6%
67 of 219 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.3%
5 of 219 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#123 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 219 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 67.1% (147)
Fair 30.6% (67)
Poor 2.3% (5)
Bartow County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,484 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,697 crossings a day against 19,085 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 219 of 219 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
41.6% of Bartow County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
91 of the 219 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 67.1% 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 88.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US 41 over TWO RUN CREEK, built 1949, carries 11,900 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 13,484 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bartow County's bridges were built
219 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 10
1920–1929
10 bridges
- 1930s 14
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1940s 11
1940–1949
11 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
24 bridges
- 1960s 15
1960–1969
15 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
58 bridges
- 1980s 15
1980–1989
15 bridges
- 1990s 20
1990–1999
20 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
26 bridges
- 2010s 21
2010–2019
21 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 58 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1977) matches the Georgia average (1977).
How Bartow County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Bartow County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.3% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1977 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bibb County | 220 | 76.4% | 23.6% | 0% | 1974 |
| Bartow County (this page) | 219 | 67.1% | 30.6% | 2.3% | 1977 |
| Muscogee County | 208 | 84.6% | 15.4% | 0% | 1974 |
| Floyd County | 202 | 57.4% | 39.1% | 3.5% | 1975 |
| Colquitt County | 194 | 83.5% | 16% | 0.5% | 1982 |
| Richmond County | 183 | 89.6% | 8.7% | 1.6% | 1984 |
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 Bartow 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 Bartow County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (219 bridges here).
- Faulkner County, AR · 219 bridges
- McMinn County, TN · 219 bridges
- Decatur County, IN · 220 bridges
- Dubois County, IN · 220 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1977 here).
- San Diego County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,632 bridges
- King County, WA · avg 1977 · 1,238 bridges
- Riverside County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,117 bridges
- Shelby County, TN · avg 1977 · 1,077 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (5)
OLD DIXIE HIGHWAY
PoorOver: CHAMLEE CREEK
1.2 MI N OF ADAIRSVILLE, Bartow, GA
Built 1929 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 230
CROW SPRINGS RD
PoorOver: CROW SPRINGS BRANCH
9.5 MI N OF CARTERSVILLE, Bartow, GA
Built 1960 Load: 20.8 t ADT: 240
US 41
PoorOver: TWO RUN CREEK
1 MI N OF CASSVILLE, Bartow, GA
Built 1949 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 11,900
TWIN BRIDGE ROAD
PoorOver: SWAMP CREEK TRIB
1.9 MI W OF ADAIRSVILLE, Bartow, GA
Built 1998 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 310
COOPERS FURNACE RO
PoorOver: COOPERS FURNCAE
3 MI EAST OF CARTERSVILLE, Bartow, GA
Built 2006 Load: 79.8 t ADT: 804
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