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Sumter County, GA

81 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 86.4% rated Good, 13.6% Fair, 0% Poor.

81
Public bridges: 86.4%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Sumter County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 13%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 81
public highway bridges: 1974
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.

Sumter County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Sumter County ranks #20 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Sumter County, Georgia contains 81 public highway bridges. Roughly 86.4% are rated “Good,” 13.6% “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 Sumter County

Good condition

86.4%

70 of 81 rated 7-9

Fair condition

13.6%

11 of 81 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 81 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#20 of 159

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

Condition distribution

Share of 81 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

86.4% (70)

Fair

13.6% (11)

Poor

0% (0)

54.3% of Sumter County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

44 of the 81 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 86.4% 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
1930s

5
1940s

4
1950s

13
1960s

15
1970s

9
1980s

11
1990s

6
2000s

11
2010s

5
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 15 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1974) matches the Georgia average (1977).

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Sumter 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 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Sumter County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Murray County	82	32.9%	50%	17.1%	1964
Berrien County	81	79%	21%	0%	1972
Fayette County	81	71.6%	24.7%	3.7%	1986
White County	81	34.6%	63%	2.5%	1977
Sumter County (this page)	81	86.4%	13.6%	0%	1974
Burke County	80	73.8%	21.3%	5%	1974

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside GA (81 bridges here).

Calhoun County, IL · 81 bridges
Tunica County, MS · 81 bridges
Worth County, MO · 81 bridges
Cayey County, PR · 81 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside GA (1974 here).

Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges

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

All 81 Good 70 Fair 11 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (70)

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Sumter County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

54.3% of Sumter County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Sumter 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 (70)

JACKSON STREET

SALTER MILL ROAD

TALLENT STORE RD

BARLOW STREET

PEGGY SHEPPARD RD

US 280 LAMAR STREE

FAS 1518

McGARRAH STREET

HOOKS MILL ROAD

THREE BRIDGES RD

McMATH MILL ROAD

MLK- DRIVEUS 19/ S

SALTER MILL ROAD

SHILOH ROAD

McLITTLE BRIDGE RD

LASCO HARVEY RD

OSCAR WILLIAMS RD

THREE BRIDGES RD

US 280/ SR 27

SR 27

SR 30

US 280 / SR 30

SR 49

SR 49

SR 195

SR 195

N LEE STREET

LAMAR ROAD

HOOKS MILL ROAD

YOUNGS MILL ROAD

POOL GIN HOUSE RD.

LASCO HARVEY RD

BOB DODSON ROAD

US 280 FORSYTH ST

US 280/SR 30

BRADY ROAD

OLD STAGE ROAD

US 19 / SR 3

MIDDLE RIVER ROAD

US 19 / SR 3

CROXTON CROSS RD

SR 49

LAMAR ROAD

SR 49

SR 49

SR 195

FELDER STREET

SR 228

E LAMAR STREET US

PATTON DRIVE

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