Total bridges
107
Public highway bridges in Ware County
County profile · official public datasets
Ware County, GA
107 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 74.8% rated Good, 24.3% Fair, 0.9% Poor.
- 107
- Public bridges
- 74.8%
- Good condition
- 0.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Ware County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 49%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 107
- 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.
Ware County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Ware County ranks #78 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.9%). Ware County, Georgia contains 107 public highway bridges. Roughly 74.8% are rated “Good,” 24.3% “Fair,” and 0.9% “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
74.8%
80 of 107 rated 7-9
Fair condition
24.3%
26 of 107 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.9%
1 of 107 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#78 of 159
Among Georgia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 107 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 74.8% (80)
Fair 24.3% (26)
Poor 0.9% (1)
Ware County's Poor-condition bridges carry 430 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 430 crossings a day against 3,510 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 107 of 107 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
44.9% of Ware County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
48 of the 107 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 74.8% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SWAMP ROAD over GUM SWAMP, built 1965, carries 430 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 430 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Ware County's bridges were built
107 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 4
1920–1929
4 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
23 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
16 bridges
- 1970s 2
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
28 bridges
- 1990s 5
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s 10
2000–2009
10 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
14 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 28 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Georgia average (1977).
How Ware County compares with Georgia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Georgia counties nearest Ware County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.9% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 158 Georgia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell County | 111 | 86.5% | 11.7% | 1.8% | 1971 |
| Fannin County | 107 | 36.4% | 61.7% | 1.9% | 1980 |
| Habersham County | 107 | 77.6% | 21.5% | 0.9% | 1974 |
| Ware County (this page) | 107 | 74.8% | 24.3% | 0.9% | 1979 |
| Brooks County | 104 | 68.3% | 27.9% | 3.8% | 1970 |
| Grady County | 104 | 93.3% | 5.8% | 1% | 1982 |
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 Ware 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 Ware County, both outside Georgia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside GA (107 bridges here).
- Magoffin County, KY · 107 bridges
- Barnstable County, MA · 107 bridges
- Mille Lacs County, MN · 107 bridges
- Luna County, NM · 107 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.
Fair-condition bridges (26)
BICKLEY HIGHWAY
FairOver: HOG CREEK
19 MI NW OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1954 Load: 5.4 t ADT: 170
EIGHT MILE POST RD
FairOver: ALLIGATOR CR OVERFLOW
10.5 MI SW OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1980 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 121
TELMORE-DIXIE U RD
FairOver: HOG CREEK OVERFLOW
13 MI NW OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1964 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 580
TELMORE-DIXIE U RD
FairOver: HOG CREEK
13 MI NW OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1964 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 580
SR 4 BUS - US 1 BU
FairOver: KETTLE CREEK
2 MI N OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1924 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 7,900
SR 38 - US 84
FairOver: SATILLA RIVER
2.5 MI E OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1923 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 22,000
JAMESTOWN ROAD
FairOver: SATILLA RIVER
5 MI N OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1958 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 1,200
SR 38 - US 84
FairOver: SATILLIA RIVER OVERFLOW
2 MI E OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1923 Load: 20.8 t ADT: 22,000
ALBANY AVENUE
FairOver: KETTLE CREEK
CITY LIMITS OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1924 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 5,480
BICKLEY HIGHWAY
FairOver: DRYDEN CREEK
13 MI NW OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1954 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 550
MANOR MILLWOOD RD.
FairOver: PERCH CREEK
19 MI W OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1950 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 320
SWAMP ROAD
FairOver: ALLIGATOR CREEK
13 MI SW OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1965 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 40
JAMESTOWN ROAD
FairOver: HURRICANE CREEK TRIB
13 MI N OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1958 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 900
JAMESTOWN ROAD
FairOver: HURRICANE CREEK TRIB
14 MI N OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1958 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 900
MORNINGSIDE DRIVE
FairOver: SATILLA RIVER TRIB
IN CITY LIMITS WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1960 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 4,911
JAMESTOWN ROAD
FairOver: SATILLA RIVER OVERFLOW
4 MI N OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1958 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 1,200
CHEROKEE STREET
FairOver: KETTLE CREEK
1 MI NW OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1960 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 1,610
FORKS ROAD
FairOver: SATILLA RIVER OVERFLOW
11 MI W OF WARESBORO, Ware, GA
Built 1965 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 150
WADLEY ROAD
FairOver: KETTLE CREEK
1.5 MI W OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1965 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 750
RICARDO STREET
FairOver: SATILLA RIVER TRIB
CITY OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1960 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 400
SR 122
FairOver: MUSKET BAY
5 MI W OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1948 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 1,470
HAINES AVENUE
FairOver: CSX RAILROAD
IN CITY LIMITS WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1969 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 5,170
DUNCAN BRIDGE RD
FairOver: SATILLA RIVER
8 MI E OF WARESBORO, Ware, GA
Built 1987 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 121
SR 4 (NBL) US 1
FairOver: GUM SLOUGH
15 MI S OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1955 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 4,620
SR 38 - US 84
FairOver: SATILLA RIVER TRIB.
CITY LIMITS OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1964 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 14,700
SR 520-US 82-COR Z
FairOver: FULLWOOD CREEK
6 MI NW OF WAYCROSS, Ware, GA
Built 1988 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 4,130
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