County profile · official public datasets

Quitman County, GA

20 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 90% rated Good, 0% Fair, 10% Poor.

20
Public bridges
90%
Good condition
10%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Quitman County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

156th
of 159 on Poor share
10%
Poor-condition share
20
public highway bridges
1984
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.

Quitman County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Quitman County ranks #156 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10%). Quitman County, Georgia contains 20 public highway bridges. Roughly 90% are rated “Good,” 0% “Fair,” and 10% “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

20

Public highway bridges in Quitman County

Good condition

90%

18 of 20 rated 7-9

Fair condition

0%

0 of 20 rated 5-6

Poor condition

10%

2 of 20 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#156 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 20 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
90% (18)
Fair
0% (0)
Poor
10% (2)

Quitman County's Poor-condition bridges carry 126 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 63 crossings a day against 634 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 20 of 20 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

40% of Quitman County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

8 of the 20 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 90% 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 99.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

W.F.GEORGE ACC. RD over RIVER BLUFF PARK ACC. RD, built 1963, carries 125 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 126 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Quitman County's bridges were built

20 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 6 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 30% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1984, 7 years newer than the Georgia average of 1977.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Quitman County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 5 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Quitman County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Baker County 27 3.7%
Webster County 26 0%
Schley County 25 0%
Glascock County 22 4.5%
Clay County 21 0%
Quitman County (this page) 20 10%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (20 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1984 here).

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

All 20 Good 18 Fair 0 Poor 2

All bridges (20)

CROSS ROADS

Good

Over: SMITHEE JACK CREEK

NORTHWEST OF MORRIS, Quitman, GA

Built 1962 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 30

LOWER LUMPKIN RD

Good

Over: SMITHEE JACK CREEK

5 MILES EAST OF GEORGETO, Quitman, GA

Built 1979 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 60

DRAG NASTY CR RD

Good

Over: DRAG NASTY CREEK

4.2 MILES SOUTH OF GEORGE, Quitman, GA

Built 1955 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 110

OLD HATCHER RD

Good

Over: WILDCAT CREEK

4 MI NW OF MORRIS, Quitman, GA

Built 1954 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 514

US 82/SR 50

Good

Over: PATAULA CREEK

2 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORR, Quitman, GA

Built 1993 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 1,920

MORRIS SPUR RD

Good

Over: HOLANNA CREEK

JUST EAST OF MORRIS, Quitman, GA

Built 1974 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 20

SR 39

Good

Over: GSWR

3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GEOR, Quitman, GA

Built 1941 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 2,100

US 82- SR 50

Good

Over: TOBANNE CREEK

1 MI SE OF GEORGETOWN, Quitman, GA

Built 1993 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 4,130

SR 39

Good

Over: SOAPSTONE CREEK

5 MILES NORTH OF GEORGETO, Quitman, GA

Built 2000 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 260

LOWER LUMPKIN RD

Good

Over: HODCHOOKEE CREEK

7.5 MILES E OF GEORGETOWN, Quitman, GA

Built 2019 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 30

UNION CHURCH ROAD

Good

Over: PATAULA CREEK

2.59 MILES NOTH OF MORRIS, Quitman, GA

Built 2012 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 100

SR 39

Good

Over: BUSTAHATCHEE CREEK

7 MILES NORTH OF GEORGETO, Quitman, GA

Built 1995 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 270

UPPER MORRIS ROAD

Good

Over: HOLANNA CREEK

AT MORRIS CITY LIMITS, Quitman, GA

Built 2014 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 60

FLORENCE STREET

Good

Over: CHATTAHOOCHEE RIV TRIB

AT GEORGETOWN CITY LIMITS, Quitman, GA

Built 1990 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 870

UNION CHURCH ROAD

Good

Over: PATAULA CREEK OVERFLOW

2.9 MILES NORTH OF MORRIS, Quitman, GA

Built 2011 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 100

SR 27

Good

Over: TOBANNEE CREEK

1.5 MILES NORTH EAST OF G, Quitman, GA

Built 1999 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 740

LOWER LUMPKIN RD

Good

Over: TOLANNEE CREEK

1 MI E OF GEORGETOWN, Quitman, GA

Built 1991 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 60

OLD FT GAINES RD

Good

Over: DRAG NASTY CREEK

3.7 MI S OF GEORGETOWN, Quitman, GA

Built 1968 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 30

RIVER PARK ROAD A

Poor

Over: RIVER BLUFF PARK CREEK

1 MI N. OF GEORGTOWN GA, Quitman, GA

Built 1963 Load: 8.9 t ADT: 1

W.F.GEORGE ACC. RD

Poor

Over: RIVER BLUFF PARK ACC. RD

1 MI N. OF GEORGETOWN GA., Quitman, GA

Built 1963 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 125

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Related

Browse all → | Rankings →
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainBridges

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.