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Pickens County, GA

62 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 75.8% rated Good, 24.2% Fair, 0% Poor.

62
Public bridges: 75.8%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Pickens County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 26%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 62
public highway bridges: 1968
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.

Pickens County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pickens County ranks #42 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Pickens County, Georgia contains 62 public highway bridges. Roughly 75.8% are rated “Good,” 24.2% “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 Pickens County

Good condition

75.8%

47 of 62 rated 7-9

Fair condition

24.2%

15 of 62 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 62 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#42 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 62 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

75.8% (47)

Fair

24.2% (15)

Poor

0% (0)

53.2% of Pickens County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

33 of the 62 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 75.8% 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.

1910s

1
1920s

9
1930s

3
1940s

2
1950s

9
1960s

7
1970s

3
1980s

22
2000s

3
2010s

1
2020s

2

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 22 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 35.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1968, 9 years older than the Georgia average of 1977.

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Pickens County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1968 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 11 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Pickens County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Hancock County	64	78.1%	12.5%	9.4%	1975
Chattahoochee County	63	73%	25.4%	1.6%	1990
Pickens County (this page)	62	75.8%	24.2%	0%	1968
Atkinson County	61	75.4%	21.3%	3.3%	1975
Candler County	61	86.9%	13.1%	0%	1978
Upson County	61	67.2%	27.9%	4.9%	1979

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (62 bridges here).

Conejos County, CO · 62 bridges
Pitkin County, CO · 62 bridges
Gulf County, FL · 62 bridges
Switzerland County, IN · 62 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1968 here).

Montgomery County, PA · avg 1968 · 828 bridges
San Joaquin County, CA · avg 1968 · 644 bridges
Providence County, RI · avg 1968 · 476 bridges
Imperial County, CA · avg 1968 · 444 bridges

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

All 62 Good 47 Fair 15 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (47)

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Pickens County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

53.2% of Pickens County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Pickens 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 (47)

OLD BURNT MT. RD.

WHITESTONE ROAD

SR 136

ELLIJAY ROAD

SR 53

SWAN BRIDGE ROAD

ELLIJAY ROAD

SR 53

SR 515 (NBL)

SR 53 BUSINESS

GRANDVIEW ROAD

CARNS MILL ROAD

INDUSTRIAL BLVD.

COVE ROAD

JERUSALEM CH RD

UPPER BETHANY RD

PRICE CREEK ROAD

OLD MILL-WHITE RD

I-575 (NBL)

I-575 (SBL)

SR 136 CONN.

CARVER MILL ROAD

LUMBER CO ROAD

SR 515 (SBL)

FAIRVIEW ROAD

ELLIJAY ROAD

SR 53

OLD GRANDVIEW RD

McARTHUR ROAD

CAMP ROAD

ALERED MILL ROAD

BRYANT ROAD

JERUSALEM ROAD

THOMPSON LANE

SR 136

SR 53

SR 136

GRANDVIEW ROAD

SR 515 (NBL)

SR 515 (SBL)

SR 136

HAMRICK ROAD

COVE ROAD

SR 515

SR 515

SR 515

HOBSON ROAD

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