Total bridges
202
Public highway bridges in Floyd County
County profile · official public datasets
Floyd County, GA
202 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 57.4% rated Good, 39.1% Fair, 3.5% Poor.
- 202
- Public bridges
- 57.4%
- Good condition
- 3.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Floyd County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 131st
- of 159 on Poor share
- 3.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 202
- public highway bridges
- 1975
- 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.
Floyd County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Floyd County ranks #131 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.5%). Floyd County, Georgia contains 202 public highway bridges. Roughly 57.4% are rated “Good,” 39.1% “Fair,” and 3.5% “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.
Good condition
57.4%
116 of 202 rated 7-9
Fair condition
39.1%
79 of 202 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3.5%
7 of 202 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#131 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 202 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 57.4% (116)
Fair 39.1% (79)
Poor 3.5% (7)
Floyd County's Poor-condition bridges carry 12,970 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,853 crossings a day against 6,412 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 202 of 202 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
47% of Floyd County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
95 of the 202 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 57.4% 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 47.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CALHOUN ROAD over ZUBER CREEK, built 1931, carries 6,180 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 12,970 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Floyd County's bridges were built
202 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 2
1910–1919
2 bridges
- 1920s 5
1920–1929
5 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
19 bridges
- 1940s 11
1940–1949
11 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
24 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
26 bridges
- 1970s 13
1970–1979
13 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
43 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
24 bridges
- 2000s 8
2000–2009
8 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
27 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 43 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Georgia average (1977).
How Floyd County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Floyd County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.5% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bibb County | 220 | 76.4% | 23.6% | 0% | 1974 |
| Bartow County | 219 | 67.1% | 30.6% | 2.3% | 1977 |
| Muscogee County | 208 | 84.6% | 15.4% | 0% | 1974 |
| Floyd County (this page) | 202 | 57.4% | 39.1% | 3.5% | 1975 |
| Colquitt County | 194 | 83.5% | 16% | 0.5% | 1982 |
| Richmond County | 183 | 89.6% | 8.7% | 1.6% | 1984 |
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 Floyd 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 Floyd County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (202 bridges here).
- Elmore County, AL · 202 bridges
- Clark County, AR · 202 bridges
- St. Francis County, AR · 202 bridges
- Union County, MS · 202 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1975 here).
- San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
- Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
- Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges
- Monroe County, NY · avg 1975 · 615 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (7)
L. TEXAS VALLEY RD
PoorOver: ARMUCHEE CREEK
8.5 MI N OF ROME, Floyd, GA
Built 1935 Load: 9.9 t ADT: 220
BELLS FERRY ROAD
PoorOver: WOODWARD CREEK
2.3 MI W OF SHANNON, Floyd, GA
Built 1938 Load: 10.8 t ADT: 280
PLAINVILLE ROAD
PoorOver: WOODWARD CREEK
3 MI NE OF SHANNON, Floyd, GA
Built 1926 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 780
CALHOUN ROAD
PoorOver: ZUBER CREEK
3.3 MI SW OF SHANNON, Floyd, GA
Built 1931 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 6,180
GAINES ROAD
PoorOver: WOODWARD CREEK TRIB
9.6 MI NE OF ROME, Floyd, GA
Built 1991 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 160
KINGSTON AVENUE
PoorOver: NS RAILROAD (719097
IN NORTH EAST ROME, Floyd, GA
Built 1978 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 5,220
FOUCH GAP ROAD
PoorOver: HEATH CREEK
5 MI N OF COOSA, Floyd, GA
Built 1982 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 130
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