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Wheeler County, GA

53 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 75.5% rated Good, 24.5% Fair, 0% Poor.

53
Public bridges: 75.5%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Wheeler 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: 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.

Wheeler County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wheeler County ranks #50 of 159 Georgia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Wheeler County, Georgia contains 53 public highway bridges. Roughly 75.5% are rated “Good,” 24.5% “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 Wheeler County

Good condition

75.5%

40 of 53 rated 7-9

Fair condition

24.5%

13 of 53 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 53 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#50 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

75.5% (40)

Fair

24.5% (13)

Poor

0% (0)

49.1% of Wheeler County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

26 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 75.5% 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.

1930s

7
1940s

6
1950s

3
1960s

9
1970s

1
1980s

7
1990s

11
2000s

4
2010s

4
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 11 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1974) matches the Georgia average (1977).

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

The 5 Georgia counties nearest Wheeler 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 1977 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Wheeler County and the 5 Georgia counties closest to it in inventory size
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
Stewart County	53	88.7%	11.3%	0%	1979
Wheeler County (this page)	53	75.5%	24.5%	0%	1974
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 Wheeler 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 Wheeler 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 (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 53 Good 40 Fair 13 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (40)

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Wheeler County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

49.1% of Wheeler County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Wheeler 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 (40)

BELLS FERRY ROAD

LANDSBURG ROAD

CR 177

SNOW HILL ROAD

US 280

BELLS FERRY ROAD

UNION CHURCH ROAD

ERICK ROAD

CR 173

HOPE CHURCH ROAD

SR 149

SR 19

SR 46

CR 72

CR 174

SR 126

WILL CLARK ROAD

HARELSON CEMETERY

SR 126

SR 19

US 280

LITTLE ROCK ROAD

SNOW HILL ROAD

SR 19

SR 19

SR 19

US 280

US 280

US 280

SR 126

US 280

US 280 SR 30

SR 46

US 319 US 441 SR

MT OLIVET CHURCH R

SPRING HILL CH RD

GRAY RD

LOTTS CREEK ROAD

CLARK LANE

GRAY ROAD

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