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Dooly County, GA

73 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 78.1% rated Good, 21.9% Fair, 0% Poor.

73
Public bridges: 78.1%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Dooly County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 18%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 73
public highway bridges: 1971
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.

Dooly County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Dooly County ranks #28 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Dooly County, Georgia contains 73 public highway bridges. Roughly 78.1% are rated “Good,” 21.9% “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 Dooly County

Good condition

78.1%

57 of 73 rated 7-9

Fair condition

21.9%

16 of 73 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 73 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#28 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 73 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

78.1% (57)

Fair

21.9% (16)

Poor

0% (0)

63% of Dooly County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

46 of the 73 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 78.1% 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.

1920s

2
1930s

5
1940s

7
1950s

8
1960s

22
1970s

3
1980s

5
1990s

10
2000s

4
2010s

5
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 22 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 30.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 6 years older than the Georgia average of 1977.

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Dooly 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 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Dooly County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Clinch County	74	63.5%	33.8%	2.7%	1973
Decatur County	74	78.4%	20.3%	1.4%	1975
Hart County	74	67.6%	29.7%	2.7%	1977
Dade County	73	53.4%	45.2%	1.4%	1967
Effingham County	73	93.2%	6.8%	0%	1972
Dooly County (this page)	73	78.1%	21.9%	0%	1971

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (73 bridges here).

Stone County, AR · 73 bridges
Levy County, FL · 73 bridges
Putnam County, FL · 73 bridges
Blackford County, IN · 73 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1971 here).

Wayne County, MI · avg 1971 · 1,026 bridges
Baltimore County, MD · avg 1971 · 783 bridges
Washington County, PA · avg 1971 · 655 bridges
Linn County, OR · avg 1971 · 566 bridges

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

All 73 Good 57 Fair 16 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (57)

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Dooly County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

63% of Dooly County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Dooly 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 (57)

GODWIN BRIDGE ROAD

ST. JOHNS ROAD

THIRD DISTRICT ROA

I-75

FIVE POINTS ROAD

SR 27

SR 230

SLOSYEYE ROAD

THIRD DISTRICT ROA

ROCK DAM RD.

CONEY ROAD

GODWIN BRIDGE RD

PINEHURST ROAD

PINEHURST ROAD

NELLIEVILLE ROAD

CALHOUN ROAD

ARENA ROAD

McCAY ROAD

PARKERS STORE RD

TEMPLETON ROAD

LIBERTY CHURCH RD

FIVE POINTS ROAD

McCAY ROAD

SR 230

PLEASANT VALLEY RD

SR 90

US 41 / SR 7

SR 90

HERBERT A SALIBA B

SR 27

SR 27

I-75

I-75

I-75

RIVER ROAD

SOUTH 7TH STREET

STEELE ROAD

SOUTH 5TH STREET

LEAVENS ROAD

SR215

SR 27

US 41 / SR 7

US 41 / SR 7

SR 230

WEST ROAD

A B FULFORD MEM BR

SR 90

WEEKS ROAD

NEW CUT ROAD

SR 27

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