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Bryan County, GA

78 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 67.9% rated Good, 32.1% Fair, 0% Poor.

78
Public bridges: 67.9%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 14%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 78
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.

Bryan County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bryan County ranks #22 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Bryan County, Georgia contains 78 public highway bridges. Roughly 67.9% are rated “Good,” 32.1% “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 Bryan County

Good condition

67.9%

53 of 78 rated 7-9

Fair condition

32.1%

25 of 78 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 78 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#22 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 78 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

67.9% (53)

Fair

32.1% (25)

Poor

0% (0)

46.2% of Bryan County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

36 of the 78 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 67.9% 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.

1930s

3
1950s

5
1960s

24
1970s

9
1980s

4
1990s

23
2000s

6
2010s

3
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 24 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 30.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Georgia average (1977).

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Bryan County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Bryan County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Burke County	80	73.8%	21.3%	5%	1974
Barrow County	79	69.6%	30.4%	0%	1983
Macon County	78	76.9%	23.1%	0%	1977
Bryan County (this page)	78	67.9%	32.1%	0%	1979
Appling County	77	81.8%	18.2%	0%	1977
Baldwin County	77	85.7%	14.3%	0%	1979

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (78 bridges here).

Winston County, AL · 78 bridges
Marion County, FL · 78 bridges
Emmet County, IA · 78 bridges
Finney County, KS · 78 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 78 Good 53 Fair 25 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (53)

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Bryan County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

46.2% of Bryan County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Bryan 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

Good-condition bridges (53)

OLIVE BRANCH ROAD

I-95

GROOVER HILL ROAD

US 280 EBL / SR 30

US 280 WBL / SR 30

STUBBS ROAD

I-95 NBL

I-95 SBL

BACONTOWN ROAD

US 280 / SR 30

I-95

EDWARDS ROAD

OLIVE BRANCH ROAD

BACONTOWN ROAD

US 17 / SR 25

I-16 EBL

I-16 WBL

HARRIS TRAIL

US 280 / SR 30

US 280 / SR 30

I-16 EBL

I-16 WBL

I-95

BRYAN NECK ROAD

FS-68

US 280 / SR 30

J.O.BACON HIGHWAY

TIMBER TRAIL ROAD

FS ROUTE 67

FS - 67

FS-42

SR 26 (US 80)

US 280 / SR 30

J.A.TREUTLEN HWY.

BELFAST-KELLER RD.

J.A.TREUTLEN HWY.

J.A.TREUTLEN HWY.

US 17 SB / SR 25 O

US 17 NB / SR 25 O

BRYAN NECK ROAD

US 280 / SR 30

BELFAST SIDING RD.

FS ROUTE 62

J.O.BACON HIGHWAY

FS ROUTE 42

FS-79

FS-59

FS-59

FS ROUTE 56

FS-59

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