Total bridges
111
Public highway bridges in Mitchell County
County profile · official public datasets
111 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 86.5% rated Good, 11.7% Fair, 1.8% Poor.
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Mitchell 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.
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.
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Mitchell County ranks #112 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.8%). Mitchell County, Georgia contains 111 public highway bridges. Roughly 86.5% are rated “Good,” 11.7% “Fair,” and 1.8% “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.
Total bridges
111
Public highway bridges in Mitchell County
Good condition
86.5%
96 of 111 rated 7-9
Fair condition
11.7%
13 of 111 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.8%
2 of 111 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#112 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Share of 111 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 66 crossings a day against 2,143 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 111 of 111 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
59 of the 111 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 86.5% 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.
BAY POLE ROAD over BAY POLE CREEK, built 1930, 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 131 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
111 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
1910–1919
2 bridges
1920–1929
5 bridges
1930–1939
8 bridges
1940–1949
10 bridges
1950–1959
7 bridges
1960–1969
20 bridges
1970–1979
17 bridges
1980–1989
15 bridges
1990–1999
11 bridges
2000–2009
9 bridges
2010–2019
6 bridges
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 20 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 6 years older than the Georgia average of 1977.
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Mitchell County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.8% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 7 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walton County | 115 | 72.2% | 26.1% | 1.7% | 1981 |
| Chattooga County | 113 | 58.4% | 32.7% | 8.8% | 1974 |
| Houston County | 112 | 86.6% | 13.4% | 0% | 1979 |
| Tift County | 112 | 85.7% | 14.3% | 0% | 1974 |
| Mitchell County (this page) | 111 | 86.5% | 11.7% | 1.8% | 1971 |
| Fannin County | 107 | 36.4% | 61.7% | 1.9% | 1980 |
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 Mitchell County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Mitchell County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Nearest county inventories outside GA (111 bridges here).
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1971 here).
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Over: WETHINGTON SLOUGH
4.1 MI S OF BACONTON, Mitchell, GA
Over: BAY POLE CREEK
APP 6.5 MI SW OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK
APP 3 MILES EAST OF BACON, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH TRIB
APP 2 MILES NORTH NORTHWE, Mitchell, GA
Over: LOST CREEK TRIB
APP 2.5 MILES NORTH OF C, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK OVERFLOW
S BACONTON CITY LIMITS, Mitchell, GA
Over: BAY POLE CREEK OVERFLOW
APP 9.5 MI S OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH TRIB
APP 7 MI S OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH
APP. 2.5 MI W OF CAMILL, Mitchell, GA
Over: LITTLE CREEK
6.5 MI E OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK TRIB
INT SR 93 & 112, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH TRIB
5 MILES SOUTH OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: WETHINGTON SLOUGH O/F
APP 11 MI NE OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: LITTLE CREEK
6 MI E OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: LOST CREEK
APP 4 MI N OF COTTON, Mitchell, GA
Over: SALLYS BRANCH
APP 1 MI E OF SALE CITY, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH TRIB
APP 3.5 MI N OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH TRIB
APP 3 MI NNW OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK
APP 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK TRIB
APP 3.7 MI NW OF SALE CTY, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH TRIB
4 MI ENE OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH
3.5 MI. W. OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG CREEK
1 MILE FRO PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG CREEK TRIBUTARY
APP 1.2 MI N OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: WETHINGTON SLOUGH O/F
5 MI SE OF BACONTON, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH
8 MI W OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG CREEK TRIBUTARY
APP .5 MI N OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH
IN NORTH CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: LOST CREEK
APP. 1.5 MILES NORTH OF, Mitchell, GA
Over: LOST CREEK TRIB
APP. 1.4 MI. N. OF COTTON, Mitchell, GA
Over: LOST CREEK
2.5 MILES SOUTH OF SALE, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG CREEK
APP 2 MI N OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH TRIB
APP 4 MI N OF JCT SR 93, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH
APP .5 MI N OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: WETHINGTON SLOUGH
APP 1 MI S OF JCT SR 93, Mitchell, GA
Over: LITTLE CREEK
4 MI NE OF MEIGS, Mitchell, GA
Over: WETHINGTON SLOUGH
APP 1.2 MILES SOUTH OF BA, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK
1.2 MILES SOUTH OF BAC, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG CREEK
2.5 MI NE OF MEIGS, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK OVERFLOW
APP 5 MI N OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK
APP .3 MI S OF JCT SR 93, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK OVERFLOW
APP 5 MILES NORTH OF CAMI, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK TRIB
APP 5 MILES NORTHWEST O, Mitchell, GA
Over: SPENCE MILL CREEK
5 MILES SOUTH OF PELHAM, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH
APP 2 MILES WEST OF CAMIL, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH
APP .5 MI N OF CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG CREEK
APP 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH TRIB
APP 2 MI S OF JCT SR 37, Mitchell, GA
Over: BIG SLOUGH OVERFLOW
NORTH CAMILLA, Mitchell, GA
Over: RACCOON CREEK OVERFLOW
6.5 MI E OF BACONTON, Mitchell, GA
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.