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Lowndes County, GA

130 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 83.8% rated Good, 14.6% Fair, 1.5% Poor.

130
Public bridges: 83.8%
Good condition: 1.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Lowndes County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

100th
of 159 on Poor share: 1.5%
Poor-condition share: 130
public highway bridges: 1981
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.

Lowndes County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lowndes County ranks #100 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.5%). Lowndes County, Georgia contains 130 public highway bridges. Roughly 83.8% are rated “Good,” 14.6% “Fair,” and 1.5% “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.

Total bridges

130

Public highway bridges in Lowndes County

Good condition

83.8%

109 of 130 rated 7-9

Fair condition

14.6%

19 of 130 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.5%

2 of 130 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#100 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 130 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

83.8% (109)

Fair

14.6% (19)

Poor

1.5% (2)

Lowndes County's Poor-condition bridges carry 730 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 365 crossings a day against 9,875 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 130 of 130 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

46.2% of Lowndes County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

60 of the 130 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 83.8% 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 69.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

OLD QUITMAN ROAD over CSX RAILROAD, built 1928, carries 510 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 730 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

2
1930s

2
1940s

3
1950s

12
1960s

31
1970s

14
1980s

14
1990s

17
2000s

23
2010s

9
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 31 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Georgia average (1977).

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Lowndes County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.5% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is 7 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lowndes County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Meriwether County	135	37%	48.1%	14.8%	1972
Gordon County	133	68.4%	30.1%	1.5%	1979
Whitfield County	130	53.8%	44.6%	1.5%	1973
Lowndes County (this page)	130	83.8%	14.6%	1.5%	1981
Coffee County	126	86.5%	12.7%	0.8%	1973
Worth County	125	88%	12%	0%	1973

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (130 bridges here).

Kit Carson County, CO · 130 bridges
Bay County, FL · 130 bridges
Monroe County, IA · 130 bridges
Chautauqua County, KS · 130 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1981 here).

Franklin County, OH · avg 1981 · 922 bridges
Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
Montgomery County, OH · avg 1981 · 632 bridges
McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges

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

All 130 Good 109 Fair 19 Poor 2

Good-condition bridges (109)

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Lowndes County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Lowndes County's Poor-condition bridges carry 730 vehicle crossings a day

46.2% of Lowndes County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 69.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Lowndes 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 (109)

THIRD AVENUE

INNER PERIMETER RD

OLD LAKE PARK RD

STALLINGS ROAD

DAMPIER ROAD

CS 1014 NORTH OAK

HIGHTOWER STREET

UNION ROAD

OLD STATE ROAD

CS 962 BERKLEY AV

SR 133

LOCH LAUREL ROAD

OLD VALDOSTA RD

DOOD ROAD

LOCH LAUREL ROAD

CS 1006 N. LEE ST

ONE MILE BRANCH RO

FRANKS CREEK ROAD

CR 1268 SKIPPER

STATEN ROAD

STATEN ROAD

CR 781 SKIPPER BRI

CR 781 SKIPPER BRI

TUCKER ROAD

SR 122

US 41(SBL) SR 7BU

SR 122

SKIPPER BRIDGE ROA

SR 94

JOHNSON ROAD

FRANKS CRK ROAD

BELVILLE ROAD

SR 376

I-75

INNER PERIMETER RD

INNER PERIMETER RD

SMITH AVENUE

SR00122

SR 125 BEMISS ROAD

STATEN ROAD

SR 94

US 84

SR 31

I-75

VANN ROAD

CS 519 GRONTO ROA

CLAY ROAD

MORVEN ROAD

HICKORY GROVE ROAD

HICKORY CHRUCH RD

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