Total bridges
30
Public highway bridges in Bleckley County
County profile · official public datasets
Bleckley County, GA
30 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 86.7% rated Good, 13.3% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 30
- Public bridges
- 86.7%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bleckley County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- Top 42%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 30
- public highway bridges
- 1973
- 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.
Bleckley County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bleckley County ranks #67 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Bleckley County, Georgia contains 30 public highway bridges. Roughly 86.7% are rated “Good,” 13.3% “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.
Good condition
86.7%
26 of 30 rated 7-9
Fair condition
13.3%
4 of 30 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 30 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#67 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 30 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 86.7% (26)
Fair 13.3% (4)
Poor 0% (0)
60% of Bleckley County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
18 of the 30 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 86.7% 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.
When Bleckley County's bridges were built
30 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s
1930–1939
5 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s 2
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
9 bridges
- 1980s 3
1980–1989
3 bridges
- 1990s 3
1990–1999
3 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2010s 2
2010–2019
2 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 9 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 30% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1973) matches the Georgia average (1977).
How Bleckley County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Bleckley County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee County | 33 | 84.8% | 15.2% | 0% | 1979 |
| Lincoln County | 32 | 81.3% | 15.6% | 3.1% | 1976 |
| Bleckley County (this page) | 30 | 86.7% | 13.3% | 0% | 1973 |
| Lanier County | 28 | 71.4% | 28.6% | 0% | 1969 |
| Baker County | 27 | 70.4% | 25.9% | 3.7% | 1981 |
| Webster County | 26 | 84.6% | 15.4% | 0% | 1986 |
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 Bleckley 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 Bleckley County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (30 bridges here).
- Nome County, AK · 30 bridges
- Lake County, MI · 30 bridges
- Box Butte County, NE · 30 bridges
- Sargent County, ND · 30 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1973 here).
- Jefferson County, AL · avg 1973 · 1,068 bridges
- Erie County, NY · avg 1973 · 906 bridges
- Davidson County, TN · avg 1973 · 832 bridges
- Lancaster County, PA · avg 1973 · 801 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (4)
SR 278
FairOver: GUM SWAMP CREEK
7 MI NE OF COCHRAN, Bleckley, GA
Built 1973 Load: 15.4 t ADT: 210
SR 112
FairOver: I-16 (SR 404)
14.6 MI NE OF COCHRAN, Bleckley, GA
Built 1969 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 1,740
SR 26
FairOver: GUM SWAMP CREEK
6.2 MI NE OF COCHRAN, Bleckley, GA
Built 1949 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 2,670
PORTER ROAD
FairOver: JORDAN CREEK TRIB.
IN CITY LIMIT OF COCHRAN, Bleckley, GA
Built 1973 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 730
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