Total bridges
183
Public highway bridges in Richmond County
County profile · official public datasets
Richmond County, GA
183 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 89.6% rated Good, 8.7% Fair, 1.6% Poor.
- 183
- Public bridges
- 89.6%
- Good condition
- 1.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Richmond 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.
- 105th
- of 159 on Poor share
- 1.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 183
- 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.
Richmond County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Richmond County ranks #105 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.6%). Richmond County, Georgia contains 183 public highway bridges. Roughly 89.6% are rated “Good,” 8.7% “Fair,” and 1.6% “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.
Good condition
89.6%
164 of 183 rated 7-9
Fair condition
8.7%
16 of 183 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.6%
3 of 183 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#105 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 183 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 89.6% (164)
Fair 8.7% (16)
Poor 1.6% (3)
Richmond County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,356 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 785 crossings a day against 19,694 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 183 of 183 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
29% of Richmond County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
53 of the 183 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 89.6% 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 68.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
GOODRICH ROAD over CANAL SPILLWAY, built 1940, carries 1,606 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 2,356 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Richmond County's bridges were built
183 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 3
1910–1919
3 bridges
- 1930s 6
1930–1939
6 bridges
- 1940s 9
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s 19
1950–1959
19 bridges
- 1960s 9
1960–1969
9 bridges
- 1970s 15
1970–1979
15 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
23 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
51 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
22 bridges
- 2010s 18
2010–2019
18 bridges
- 2020s 8
2020–2029
8 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 51 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.9% 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.
How Richmond County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Richmond County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.6% Poor share is the 5th-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.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colquitt County | 194 | 83.5% | 16% | 0.5% | 1982 |
| Richmond County (this page) | 183 | 89.6% | 8.7% | 1.6% | 1984 |
| Thomas County | 179 | 90.5% | 9.5% | 0% | 1978 |
| Coweta County | 173 | 80.3% | 19.1% | 0.6% | 1988 |
| Laurens County | 169 | 69.8% | 26.6% | 3.6% | 1972 |
| Carroll County | 168 | 72.6% | 26.8% | 0.6% | 1977 |
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 Richmond 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 Richmond County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (183 bridges here).
- St. Clair County, AL · 183 bridges
- Marshall County, IN · 183 bridges
- Appanoose County, IA · 183 bridges
- Keokuk County, IA · 183 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1984 here).
- Hennepin County, MN · avg 1984 · 936 bridges
- Duval County, FL · avg 1984 · 831 bridges
- El Paso County, CO · avg 1984 · 686 bridges
- Bell County, TX · avg 1984 · 660 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (3)
NORTH RANGE ROAD
PoorOver: MAXWELL CREEK
SOUTH OF BRG107AV, Richmond, GA
Built 1955 ADT: 500
GOODRICH ROAD
PoorOver: CANAL SPILLWAY
13.2 MI NE OF HEPHZIBAH, Richmond, GA
Built 1940 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 250
GOODRICH ROAD
PoorOver: CANAL SPILLWAY
13.7 MI NE OF HEPHZIBAH, Richmond, GA
Built 1940 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 1,606
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