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Dodge County, GA

57 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 82.5% rated Good, 17.5% Fair, 0% Poor.

57
Public bridges: 82.5%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 30%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 57
public highway bridges: 1972
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.

Dodge County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Dodge County ranks #48 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Dodge County, Georgia contains 57 public highway bridges. Roughly 82.5% are rated “Good,” 17.5% “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 Dodge County

Good condition

82.5%

47 of 57 rated 7-9

Fair condition

17.5%

10 of 57 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 57 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#48 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 57 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

82.5% (47)

Fair

17.5% (10)

Poor

0% (0)

61.4% of Dodge County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

35 of the 57 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 82.5% 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.

1930s

5
1940s

7
1950s

3
1960s

14
1970s

9
1980s

4
1990s

7
2000s

4
2010s

1
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 14 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 5 years older than the Georgia average of 1977.

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Dodge 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 1972 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Dodge County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Heard County	60	66.7%	33.3%	0%	1978
Jeff Davis County	58	70.7%	29.3%	0%	1972
Putnam County	58	63.8%	34.5%	1.7%	1980
McIntosh County	57	70.2%	28.1%	1.8%	1971
Dodge County (this page)	57	82.5%	17.5%	0%	1972
Warren County	56	78.6%	17.9%	3.6%	1975

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (57 bridges here).

Summit County, CO · 57 bridges
DeSoto County, FL · 57 bridges
Gem County, ID · 57 bridges
Green County, KY · 57 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1972 here).

Santa Clara County, CA · avg 1972 · 964 bridges
Madison County, AL · avg 1972 · 710 bridges
Kern County, CA · avg 1972 · 668 bridges
York County, PA · avg 1972 · 569 bridges

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

All 57 Good 47 Fair 10 Poor 0

All bridges (57)

Sort:

SR 27 - US 341 (EB

Fair

Over: SUGAR CREEK

2 MI W OF EASTMAN, Dodge, GA

Built 1959 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 4,700

EMPIRE-CHESTER HWY

Fair

Over: GUM SWAMP CREEK

4.7 MI SW OF CHESTER, Dodge, GA

Built 1958 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 1,320

US 280

Fair

Over: HEART OF GEORGIA RR

2.7 MI E OF RHINE, Dodge, GA

Built 1938 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 970

LOWER RIVER ROAD

Fair

Over: LITTLE CROOKED CREEK

4 MI NW OF RHINE, Dodge, GA

Built 1940 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 1,130

S EASTMAN-AVILLE

Fair

Over: LITTLE BRANCH CYPRESS RI

7 MI NW OF RHINE, Dodge, GA

Built 1940 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 1,490

LOWER RIVER ROAD

Fair

Over: ADAM BRANCH

5.7 MI NW OF RHINE, Dodge, GA

Built 1940 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 1,130

EMPIRE-CHESTER HWY

Fair

Over: WALTON CREEK

1 MI E OF FRAZIER, Dodge, GA

Built 1960 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 1,320

S EASTMAN-AVILLE

Fair

Over: LITTLE BRANCH CYPRESS RI

8.8 MI N OF RHINE, Dodge, GA

Built 1940 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 1,490

SR 27BUS - US341B

Fair

Over: SUGAR CREEK TRIB

IN EASTMAN CITY LIMITS, Dodge, GA

Built 1959 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,740

9TH AVE.

Fair

Over: SUGAR CREEK

1.8 MI S OF EASTMAN, Dodge, GA

Dodge County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

61.4% of Dodge County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Dodge 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

All bridges (57)

SR 27 - US 341 (EB

EMPIRE-CHESTER HWY

US 280

LOWER RIVER ROAD

S EASTMAN-AVILLE

LOWER RIVER ROAD

EMPIRE-CHESTER HWY

S EASTMAN-AVILLE

SR 27BUS - US341B

9TH AVE.

LOWER RIVER ROAD

CHAUNCY-DUBLIN HWY

CHAUNCY-DUBLIN HWY

AIRPORT ROAD

PINE BLUFF ROAD

W.P.A. ROAD

CHESTER-EASTMAN HY

CHESTER-EASTMAN HY

CHESTER-EASTMAN HY

OLD BETHEL CH ROAD

SWEET HOME CH RD

SWEET HOME CH RD

REEDY BRANCH RD

US 280

EASTMAN-SOPERTON

US 280 W RHINE-ABB

US 280

FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST

W. CHICKEN ROAD

HARRY HARGROVE RD

MILAN-CHAUNCEY RD

CHAUNCY-DUBLIN HWY

EASTMAN-SOPERTON

FAIR HAVEN CHURCH

COODY FAMILY ROAD

BEN GIDDENS ROAD

NICHOLSON-CARR RD

OLD REBIE ROAD

JIM ROSS ROAD

JAYBIRD SPRINGS RD

US 280 W RHINE-AVI

EASTMAN-RHINE HWY

EASTMAN DUBLIN HWY

EASTMAN DUBLIN HWY

EASTMAN DUBLIN HWY

SR 117

EMPIRE-CHESTER HWY

SR 230

LOWER RIVER ROAD

CHAUNCY-DUBLIN HWY

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