Total bridges
53
Public highway bridges in Stewart County
County profile · official public datasets
Stewart County, GA
53 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 88.7% rated Good, 11.3% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 53
- Public bridges
- 88.7%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Stewart County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- Top 31%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 53
- public highway bridges
- 1979
- 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.
Stewart County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Stewart County ranks #49 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Stewart County, Georgia contains 53 public highway bridges. Roughly 88.7% are rated “Good,” 11.3% “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.
Good condition
88.7%
47 of 53 rated 7-9
Fair condition
11.3%
6 of 53 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 53 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#49 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 53 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 88.7% (47)
Fair 11.3% (6)
Poor 0% (0)
41.5% of Stewart County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
22 of the 53 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 88.7% 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.
When Stewart County's bridges were built
53 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
8 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
7 bridges
- 1970s 2
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s 5
1980–1989
5 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
8 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
14 bridges
- 2010s 2
2010–2019
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 14 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Georgia average (1977).
How Stewart County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Stewart County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brantley County | 54 | 68.5% | 27.8% | 3.7% | 1974 |
| Jones County | 54 | 75.9% | 20.4% | 3.7% | 1972 |
| Lumpkin County | 53 | 43.4% | 52.8% | 3.8% | 1972 |
| Wheeler County | 53 | 75.5% | 24.5% | 0% | 1974 |
| Stewart County (this page) | 53 | 88.7% | 11.3% | 0% | 1979 |
| McDuffie County | 52 | 86.5% | 11.5% | 1.9% | 1987 |
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 Stewart 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 Stewart County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (53 bridges here).
- Cleburne County, AR · 53 bridges
- Citrus County, FL · 53 bridges
- Lincoln County, ID · 53 bridges
- Elliott County, KY · 53 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1979 here).
- Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
- Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
- Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
- McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (53)
CR 13
GoodOver: HODCHODKEE CREEK
5.5 MI SW OF LUMPKIN, Stewart, GA
Built 1996 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 121
BUDDY BOY ROAD
GoodOver: CAMP BRANCH
6.5 MI NE OF LUMPKIN, Stewart, GA
Built 1975 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 121
SR 39
GoodOver: HANNAHATCHEE CRK TRIB
4 MI E OF OMAHA, Stewart, GA
Built 1950 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 710
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.