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Colquitt County, GA

194 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 83.5% rated Good, 16% Fair, 0.5% Poor.

194
Public bridges: 83.5%
Good condition: 0.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Colquitt County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 45%
lowest Poor share in state: 0.5%
Poor-condition share: 194
public highway bridges: 1982
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.

Colquitt County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Colquitt County ranks #72 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.5%). Colquitt County, Georgia contains 194 public highway bridges. Roughly 83.5% are rated “Good,” 16% “Fair,” and 0.5% “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

194

Public highway bridges in Colquitt County

Good condition

83.5%

162 of 194 rated 7-9

Fair condition

16%

31 of 194 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.5%

1 of 194 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#72 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 194 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

83.5% (162)

Fair

16% (31)

Poor

0.5% (1)

Colquitt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,650 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry the same share of traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,650 crossings a day against 1,940 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 194 of 194 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

35.1% of Colquitt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

68 of the 194 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 83.5% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

ELLENTON-OMEGA RD over WARRIOR CREEK, built 1939, carries 1,650 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,650 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

1
1930s

3
1940s

2
1950s

12
1960s

33
1970s

38
1980s

36
1990s

38
2000s

15
2010s

9
2020s

7

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 38 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1982, 5 years newer than the Georgia average of 1977.

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Colquitt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.5% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Colquitt County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Muscogee County	208	84.6%	15.4%	0%	1974
Floyd County	202	57.4%	39.1%	3.5%	1975
Colquitt County (this page)	194	83.5%	16%	0.5%	1982
Richmond County	183	89.6%	8.7%	1.6%	1984
Thomas County	179	90.5%	9.5%	0%	1978
Coweta County	173	80.3%	19.1%	0.6%	1988

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (194 bridges here).

Franklin County, AL · 194 bridges
Poinsett County, AR · 194 bridges
Trinity County, CA · 194 bridges
Adams County, IN · 194 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1982 here).

Oklahoma County, OK · avg 1982 · 1,216 bridges
Jackson County, MO · avg 1982 · 930 bridges
Milwaukee County, WI · avg 1982 · 893 bridges
Champaign County, IL · avg 1982 · 727 bridges

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

All 194 Good 162 Fair 31 Poor 1

Good-condition bridges (162)

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Colquitt County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Colquitt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,650 vehicle crossings a day

35.1% of Colquitt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Colquitt 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 (162)

INDUSTRIAL PARK RD

GEORGE ETHERIDGE R

OLD ADEL ROAD

SR 37

OLD BERLIN ROAD

JIM CLARK ROAD

SR 270

SR 37

OLD ALBANY ROAD

COOL SPRINGS RD

SR 37

COLEMAN ROAD

SR 111

US 319 SR 35

SR 133

SR 33

JAMES BUCKNER RD

US 319 SR 35

SR 133

US 319 SR 35

COOL SPRINGS ROAD

COOL SPRINGS ROAD

COOL SPRINGS ROAD

LOWER MEIGS ROAD

HEMPSTEAD CH RD

TICKNOR ROAD

PAUL MURPHY RD

BAYPOLE SCHOOL RD

OAK GROVE CH RD

OLD ALBANY ROAD

ROB BENNETT DR

SON NORMAN ROAD

RL SEARS ROAD

COOK ROAD

PERRY BATTS ROAD

TIFT CO LINE ROAD

LANIER ROAD

CULBERTSON ROAD

SAM SELLS ROAD

SAM SELLS ROAD

SWIFT CANTEEN RD

PINEBORO ROAD

PINEBORO ROAD

ELTON CLARK RD

ELTON CLARK RD

ELTON CLARK RD

MILL POND ROAD

CHAPMAN ROAD

BEAR CREEK ROAD

MILL POND ROAD

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