Total bridges
84
Public highway bridges in Elbert County
County profile · official public datasets
Elbert County, GA
84 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 69% rated Good, 26.2% Fair, 4.8% Poor.
- 84
- Public bridges
- 69%
- Good condition
- 4.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Elbert County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 147th
- of 159 on Poor share
- 4.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 84
- 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.
Elbert County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Elbert County ranks #147 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.8%). Elbert County, Georgia contains 84 public highway bridges. Roughly 69% are rated “Good,” 26.2% “Fair,” and 4.8% “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.
Good condition
69%
58 of 84 rated 7-9
Fair condition
26.2%
22 of 84 rated 5-6
Poor condition
4.8%
4 of 84 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#147 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 84 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 69% (58)
Fair 26.2% (22)
Poor 4.8% (4)
Elbert County's Poor-condition bridges carry 675 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 169 crossings a day against 1,417 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 84 of 84 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
51.2% of Elbert County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
43 of the 84 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 69% 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 54.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SWEET CITY ROAD over DOVE CREEK, built 1915, carries 366 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 675 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Elbert County's bridges were built
84 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 5
1930–1939
5 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
17 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
8 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
7 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
13 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
13 bridges
- 2000s 6
2000–2009
6 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 17 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 6 years older than the Georgia average of 1977.
How Elbert County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Elbert County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.8% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 9 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early County | 85 | 92.9% | 7.1% | 0% | 1979 |
| Union County | 85 | 36.5% | 58.8% | 4.7% | 1975 |
| Glynn County | 84 | 66.7% | 32.1% | 1.2% | 1976 |
| Paulding County | 84 | 71.4% | 28.6% | 0% | 1987 |
| Elbert County (this page) | 84 | 69% | 26.2% | 4.8% | 1971 |
| Wayne County | 83 | 85.5% | 13.3% | 1.2% | 1983 |
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 Elbert 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 Elbert County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (84 bridges here).
- Chaffee County, CO · 84 bridges
- Dickinson County, IA · 84 bridges
- Meade County, KS · 84 bridges
- Anderson County, KY · 84 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.
Fair-condition bridges (22)
TOBE WELLS ROAD
FairOver: VAN CREEK
1 MILE N OF RUCKERSVILLE, Elbert, GA
Built 1996 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 10
ELIAM ROAD
FairOver: WAHACHEE CREEK
5 MI S OF MIDDLETON, Elbert, GA
Built 1958 Load: 5.4 t ADT: 103
BROWN BROS ROAD
FairOver: NORTH BEAVERDAM CREEK
5 MI NW OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1947 Load: 5.4 t ADT: 103
BODIE RAYLE
FairOver: FALLING CREEK
4.5 MI SW OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1952 Load: 6.3 t ADT: 30
KING HALL MILL RD
FairOver: BUTLER CREEK
4 MI SW OF BOWMAN, Elbert, GA
Built 1952 Load: 6.3 t ADT: 103
BLUE HOLE ROAD
FairOver: LITTLE DOVE CREEK
7 MI W OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1948 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 103
N BROAD STREET
FairOver: SOUTH BEAVERDAM CREEK
IN NE BOWMAN, Elbert, GA
Built 1950 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 3,010
FRANK CHILDS ROAD
FairOver: COODY CREEK TRIB
7.3 MI SE OF MIDDLETON, Elbert, GA
Built 1951 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 103
HOLMES ROAD
FairOver: COLDWATER CREEK TRIB
9.5 MI N OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1952 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 20
SR 77
FairOver: FALLING CREEK
6.1 MI S OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1948 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 1,020
Bullards Ferry Rd.
FairOver: GIN CREEK
6.6 MI SW OF MIDDLETON, Elbert, GA
Built 1948 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 103
GRADY CLEVELAND RD
FairOver: FALLING CREEK
3.5 MI SW OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1948 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 40
SR 368
FairOver: CARTERS CREEK
3.5 MI N OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1939 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 1,970
HUGHES ROAD
FairOver: DEEP CREEK
4.5 MI SE OF BOWMAN, Elbert, GA
Built 1950 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 103
SR 77
FairOver: COLDWATER CREEK
9.5 MI N OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1939 Load: 22.6 t ADT: 4,720
SR 72 (EBL)
FairOver: DOVE CREEK
6 MI SW OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1959 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 5,840
WINNS MILL ROAD
FairOver: SOUTH BEAVERDAM CREEK
1.3 MI N OF BOWMAN, Elbert, GA
Built 1921 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 50
BRAD DIXON ROAD
FairOver: COODY CREEK
10 MI SE OF MIDDLETON, Elbert, GA
Built 1964 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 270
SR 77
FairOver: BROAD RIVER OVERFLOW
7.5 MI S OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1948 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 1,020
RUCKERSVILLE RD
FairOver: BEAVERDAM CREEK
3 MI NW OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1956 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 450
EDNA ROAD
FairOver: DOVE CREEK
6 MI SW OF ELBERTON, Elbert, GA
Built 1955 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 70
BRICKYARD ROAD
FairOver: SOUTH BEAVERDAM CREEK
2.3 MI E OF BOWMAN, Elbert, GA
Built 2001 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 103
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