Total bridges
54
Public highway bridges in Jones County
County profile · official public datasets
Jones County, GA
54 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 75.9% rated Good, 20.4% Fair, 3.7% Poor.
- 54
- Public bridges
- 75.9%
- Good condition
- 3.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Jones 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.
- 137th
- of 159 on Poor share
- 3.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 54
- 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.
Jones County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Jones County ranks #137 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.7%). Jones County, Georgia contains 54 public highway bridges. Roughly 75.9% are rated “Good,” 20.4% “Fair,” and 3.7% “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
75.9%
41 of 54 rated 7-9
Fair condition
20.4%
11 of 54 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3.7%
2 of 54 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#137 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 54 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 75.9% (41)
Fair 20.4% (11)
Poor 3.7% (2)
Jones County's Poor-condition bridges carry 242 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 121 crossings a day against 2,342 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 54 of 54 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
55.6% of Jones County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
30 of the 54 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 75.9% 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 50% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
DUMAS ROAD over GLADY CREEK, built 1940, carries 121 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 242 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Jones County's bridges were built
54 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
5 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
12 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
8 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
6 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
7 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s 2
2000–2009
2 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
5 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 12 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 5 years older than the Georgia average of 1977.
How Jones County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Jones County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.7% Poor share is the 5th-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.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren County | 56 | 78.6% | 17.9% | 3.6% | 1975 |
| Brantley County | 54 | 68.5% | 27.8% | 3.7% | 1974 |
| Jones County (this page) | 54 | 75.9% | 20.4% | 3.7% | 1972 |
| Lumpkin County | 53 | 43.4% | 52.8% | 3.8% | 1972 |
| Stewart County | 53 | 88.7% | 11.3% | 0% | 1979 |
| Wheeler County | 53 | 75.5% | 24.5% | 0% | 1974 |
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 Jones 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 Jones County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (54 bridges here).
- Rio Blanco County, CO · 54 bridges
- Larue County, KY · 54 bridges
- Owen County, KY · 54 bridges
- Crawford County, MI · 54 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.
Fair-condition bridges (11)
HITCHITI ROAD
FairOver: FALLING CREEK
HITCHITI EXP. FOREST, Jones, GA
Built 1949 Load: 8.4 t ADT: 17
FOLENDORE ROAD
FairOver: COMMISSIONER CREEK
5.1 MI E OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1964 Load: 10.8 t ADT: 100
US 129 (NBL)
FairOver: SAND CREEK
4.9 MI SW OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1979 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 17,600
HOWARD ROBERTS RD
FairOver: WALNUT CREEK
5.6 MI W OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1970 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 410
US 129
FairOver: BONNER CREEK
2.5 MI SW OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1957 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 16,600
COUNTY LINE ROAD
FairOver: COMMISSIONER CREEK
10.7 MI SE OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1967 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 121
CUMSLO ROAD
FairOver: NS RR (ABANDONED)
5.1 MI S OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1976 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 710
SR 22
FairOver: COMMISSIONER CREEK
3.8 MI E OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1928 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 6,480
LUKE SMITH ROAD
FairOver: ROCK CREEK
5.7 MI S OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1992 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 200
MASSEYVILLE ROAD
FairOver: SWIFT CREEK
10.7 MI S OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1965 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 170
CAMELOT ROAD
FairOver: WALNUT CREEK TRIB
6.5 MI SW OF GRAY, Jones, GA
Built 1992 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 110
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