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Pierce County, GA

65 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 86.2% rated Good, 13.8% Fair, 0% Poor.

65
Public bridges: 86.2%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Pierce County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 26%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 65
public highway bridges: 1975
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.

Pierce County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pierce County ranks #41 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Pierce County, Georgia contains 65 public highway bridges. Roughly 86.2% are rated “Good,” 13.8% “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 Pierce County

Good condition

86.2%

56 of 65 rated 7-9

Fair condition

13.8%

9 of 65 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 65 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#41 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 65 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

86.2% (56)

Fair

13.8% (9)

Poor

0% (0)

58.5% of Pierce County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

38 of the 65 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 86.2% 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.

1930s

3
1940s

2
1950s

19
1960s

13
1970s

1
1980s

2
1990s

12
2000s

7
2010s

6

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Georgia average (1977).

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Pierce County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Pierce County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Cook County	66	77.3%	22.7%	0%	1976
Greene County	66	80.3%	19.7%	0%	1978
Wilkes County	66	83.3%	16.7%	0%	1972
Pierce County (this page)	65	86.2%	13.8%	0%	1975
Hancock County	64	78.1%	12.5%	9.4%	1975
Jefferson County	64	81.3%	17.2%	1.6%	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 Pierce 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 Pierce County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (65 bridges here).

Marion County, AR · 65 bridges
Newton County, AR · 65 bridges
Searcy County, AR · 65 bridges
Sierra County, CA · 65 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1975 here).

San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges
Monroe County, NY · avg 1975 · 615 bridges

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

All 65 Good 56 Fair 9 Poor 0

All bridges (65)

Sort:

CR 206

Fair

Over: LITTLE HURRICANE CR TRIB

10 MI NW OF BLACKSHEAR, Pierce, GA

Built 1955 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 40

TYRE BRIDGE ROAD

Fair

Over: SIXTY FOOT CREEK

PATTERSON CITY LIMITS, Pierce, GA

Built 1950 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 1,200

BEULAH CHURCH RD

Fair

Over: LITTLE HURRICANE CRK

10 MI NW OF BLACKSHEAR, Pierce, GA

Built 1955 Load: 19.9 t ADT: 160

CR 299

Fair

Over: LITTLE HURRICANE CR TRIB

10 MI NW OF BLACKSHEAR, Pierce, GA

Built 1965 Load: 20.8 t ADT: 260

SR 32

Fair

Over: LITTLE SATILLA RIVER O/F

4 MI E OF PATTERSON, Pierce, GA

Built 1967 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 2,970

RADIO STATION RD

Fair

Over: LITTLE HURRICANE CR TRIB

7.5 MI NW OF BLACKSHEAR, Pierce, GA

Built 1955 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 760

CR 103

Fair

Over: GRIFFIN BRANCH

3 MI SE OF PATTERSON, Pierce, GA

Built 1950 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 480

HACKLEBARNEY RD

Fair

Over: HACKLEBARNEY CREEK

4 MI SW OF BLACKSHEAR, Pierce, GA

Built 1960 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 1,680

VOIGT BRIDGE ROAD

Fair

Over: ALABAHA RIVER

3 MI E OF BLACKSHEAR, Pierce, GA

Pierce County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

58.5% of Pierce County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Pierce 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

All bridges (65)

CR 206

TYRE BRIDGE ROAD

BEULAH CHURCH RD

CR 299

SR 32

RADIO STATION RD

CR 103

HACKLEBARNEY RD

VOIGT BRIDGE ROAD

SR 32

HENDERSON ROAD

MERSHON ROAD

SR 32

US 84 SR 38

SR 203

US 84 SR 38

CR 148 RADIO STATI

SR 203

CASON ROAD

CASON ROAD

RADIO STATION RD

RADIO STATION RD

E. HORSESHOE RD

WALKERVILLE ROAD

W HORSESHOE RD

W HORSESHOE RD

LAURA CHAPEL RD

LAURA CHAPEL RD

OTTER CREEK ROAD

MIDWAY CHURCH RD

YOUMANS CHAPEL RD

BEULAH CHURCH RD

COLLEGE AVE.

FLETCHER ROAD

FAS 1905

US 84 SR 38

SR 203

HORSESHOE ROAD

SR 15

SR 15

SR 32

SR 203

US 84 SR 38

SR 15

SR 15

SR 15

ALVIN WALKER RD

MERSHON RD

SR 32

SR 15

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