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Coweta County, GA

173 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 80.3% rated Good, 19.1% Fair, 0.6% Poor.

173
Public bridges: 80.3%
Good condition: 0.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Coweta 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 46%
lowest Poor share in state: 0.6%
Poor-condition share: 173
public highway bridges: 1988
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.

Coweta County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Coweta County ranks #73 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.6%). Coweta County, Georgia contains 173 public highway bridges. Roughly 80.3% are rated “Good,” 19.1% “Fair,” and 0.6% “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

173

Public highway bridges in Coweta County

Good condition

80.3%

139 of 173 rated 7-9

Fair condition

19.1%

33 of 173 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.6%

1 of 173 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#73 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 173 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

80.3% (139)

Fair

19.1% (33)

Poor

0.6% (1)

Coweta County's Poor-condition bridges carry 170 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 170 crossings a day against 10,004 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 173 of 173 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

30.1% of Coweta County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

52 of the 173 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 80.3% 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

MAIN STREET over NS RR (719386R), built 1940, carries 170 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 170 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

3
1940s

10
1950s

12
1960s

10
1970s

22
1980s

14
1990s

43
2000s

30
2010s

22
2020s

7

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 43 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1988, 11 years newer than the Georgia average of 1977.

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Coweta County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.6% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 10 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Coweta County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Thomas County	179	90.5%	9.5%	0%	1978
Coweta County (this page)	173	80.3%	19.1%	0.6%	1988
Laurens County	169	69.8%	26.6%	3.6%	1972
Carroll County	168	72.6%	26.8%	0.6%	1977
Clayton County	168	82.7%	16.1%	1.2%	1982
Troup County	168	73.8%	25.6%	0.6%	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 Coweta 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 Coweta County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (173 bridges here).

Henry County, IA · 173 bridges
Somerset County, ME · 173 bridges
Johnson County, NE · 173 bridges
Merrick County, NE · 173 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1988 here).

Travis County, TX · avg 1988 · 1,544 bridges
Grant County, OK · avg 1988 · 476 bridges
Loudoun County, VA · avg 1988 · 442 bridges
Licking County, OH · avg 1988 · 439 bridges

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

All 173 Good 139 Fair 33 Poor 1

Fair-condition bridges (33)

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Coweta County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Coweta County's Poor-condition bridges carry 170 vehicle crossings a day

30.1% of Coweta County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

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

How Coweta 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

Fair-condition bridges (33)

CHANDLER ROAD

BOONE ROAD

BRADBURY ROAD

GRAY GIRLS ROAD

BO BO BANKS ROAD

BOHANNON ROAD

LOWERY RD EXT

HENRY BRYANT ROAD

HAPPY VALLEY ROAD

HINES ROAD

MT CARMER ROAD

SEWELL MILL ROAD

PAYTON ROAD

US 27 ALT.

CORINTH ROAD

PALMETTO TYRONE RD

SALBIDE AVENUE

SR 54

ROCKAWAY ROAD

LINE CREEK ROAD

MINX ROAD

CORINTH ROAD

GORDON ROAD

ALLEN ROAD

SR 16

SR 54

L. FAYETTEVILLE RD

SR 34

LAGRANGE STREET

MCDONALD NEELY RD

SR 54

I-85

WELDON ROAD

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