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Liberty County, GA

95 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 66.3% rated Good, 33.7% Fair, 0% Poor.

95
Public bridges: 66.3%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Liberty County posts a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 9%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 95
public highway bridges: 1980
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.

Liberty County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Liberty County ranks #15 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Liberty County, Georgia contains 95 public highway bridges. Roughly 66.3% are rated “Good,” 33.7% “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 Liberty County

Good condition

66.3%

63 of 95 rated 7-9

Fair condition

33.7%

32 of 95 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 95 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#15 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 95 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

66.3% (63)

Fair

33.7% (32)

Poor

0% (0)

46.3% of Liberty County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

44 of the 95 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 66.3% 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

1
1940s

1
1950s

17
1960s

2
1970s

28
1980s

9
1990s

17
2000s

7
2010s

10
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 28 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Georgia average (1977).

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Liberty 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 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Liberty County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Dougherty County	98	80.6%	19.4%	0%	1975
Forsyth County	97	88.7%	11.3%	0%	1989
Camden County	95	71.6%	27.4%	1.1%	1978
Liberty County (this page)	95	66.3%	33.7%	0%	1980
Banks County	93	61.3%	34.4%	4.3%	1978
Haralson County	93	64.5%	33.3%	2.2%	1978

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (95 bridges here).

Pike County, AR · 95 bridges
Fulton County, KY · 95 bridges
Bertie County, NC · 95 bridges
Custer County, SD · 95 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1980 here).

Tulsa County, OK · avg 1980 · 1,135 bridges
Miami-Dade County, FL · avg 1980 · 1,057 bridges
Pulaski County, AR · avg 1980 · 721 bridges
McLennan County, TX · avg 1980 · 714 bridges

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

All 95 Good 63 Fair 32 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (63)

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Liberty County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

46.3% of Liberty County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Liberty 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 (63)

SR 119

LEWIS FRASIER RD

I-95 (NBL)

I-95 (SBL)

OCEAN HIGHWAY-US17

SR 38 (US 84)

I-95 (NBL)

I-95 (SBL)

I-95 (NBL)

I-95 (SBL)

I-95 (NBL)

I-95 (SBL)

SR 196

SR 144

SR 38 (US 84)

SR 119 E.B.COOPER

SR 38 (US 84)

I-95 (NBL)

I-95 (SBL)

OCEAN HIGHWAY-US17

I-95 (NBL)

I-95 (SBL)

SR 196

I-95 (NBL)

I-95 (SBL)

SR 38 (US 84)

HOLMESTOWN ROAD

SANDY RUN ROAD

MT OLIVE CH ROAD

MARGARET ROAD

I-95 (NBL)

(NBL) OCEAN HWY-US

OCEAN HIGHWAY-US17

OCEAN HIGHWAY-US17

(SBL) OCEAN HWY-US

SR 38 (US 84)

SR 119

SR 119

SR 119

SR 119

SR 38 (US 84)

SR 196

SR 196

BARRINGTON FERRY R

FT DEUCE DRIVE

VANGUARD RD

ACCESS ROAD

WEST 6TH STREET

VANGUARD RD

FS-23

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