Total bridges
148
Public highway bridges in Claiborne County
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Claiborne County, LA
148 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 27% rated Good, 48% Fair, 25% Poor.
- 148
- Public bridges
- 27%
- Good condition
- 25%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Claiborne County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 58th
- of 64 on Poor share
- 25%
- Poor-condition share
- 148
- public highway bridges
- 1981
- 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.
Claiborne County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Claiborne County ranks #58 of 64 Louisiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 25%). Claiborne County, Louisiana contains 148 public highway bridges. Roughly 27% are rated “Good,” 48% “Fair,” and 25% “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
27%
40 of 148 rated 7-9
Fair condition
48%
71 of 148 rated 5-6
Poor condition
25%
37 of 148 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#58 of 64
Among Louisiana counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 148 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 27% (40)
Fair 48% (71)
Poor 25% (37)
Claiborne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 22,494 vehicle crossings a day
That is 18.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 25% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 608 crossings a day against 545 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 148 of 148 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
33.8% of Claiborne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
50 of the 148 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 27% 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 10% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
LA0009 over LEATHERMAN CREEK, built 1975, carries 2,248 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 37-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 22,494 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Claiborne County's bridges were built
148 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 3
1930–1939
3 bridges
- 1940s 9
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s 6
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s 16
1960–1969
16 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
47 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
20 bridges
- 1990s 17
1990–1999
17 bridges
- 2000s 10
2000–2009
10 bridges
- 2010s 16
2010–2019
16 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 47 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 31.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Louisiana average (1982).
How Claiborne County compares with Louisiana's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Louisiana counties nearest Claiborne County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 25% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1983 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 63 Louisiana counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evangeline County | 156 | 46.2% | 48.7% | 5.1% | 1981 |
| Claiborne County (this page) | 148 | 27% | 48% | 25% | 1981 |
| Avoyelles County | 147 | 47.6% | 33.3% | 19% | 1987 |
| Iberia County | 143 | 44.1% | 46.2% | 9.8% | 1985 |
| St. Helena County | 139 | 33.1% | 58.3% | 8.6% | 1979 |
| Morehouse County | 136 | 33.8% | 52.9% | 13.2% | 1983 |
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 Claiborne 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 Claiborne County, both outside Louisiana so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside LA (148 bridges here).
- Ravalli County, MT · 148 bridges
- Nance County, NE · 148 bridges
- Cayuga County, NY · 148 bridges
- Wasco County, OR · 148 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside LA (1981 here).
- Franklin County, OH · avg 1981 · 922 bridges
- Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
- Montgomery County, OH · avg 1981 · 632 bridges
- McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (71)
LA0534
FairOver: CREEK
2.5 MI NORTH OF LA 534-S, Claiborne, LA
Built 1971 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 118
LA0533
FairOver: GEE CREEK RELIEF
6.71 MI NORTH OF LA 519, Claiborne, LA
Built 1976 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 21
New Home Rd
FairOver: SUGAR CREEK
3.55 MI SW OF LA HWY 9, Claiborne, LA
Built 1990 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 140
New Home Rd
FairOver: FRANKS CREEK
3.7M WEST OF LA 9, Claiborne, LA
Built 1991 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 140
LA0002-A
FairOver: CREEK
3.42 MI EAST OF LA 807, Claiborne, LA
Built 1982 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 1,329
US0079
FairOver: CROWS CREEK
6.8 MI SOUTH OF LA 9, Claiborne, LA
Built 1979 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 9,942
US0079
FairOver: DRAINAGE CREEK
7.4 SOUTH OF LA 9, Claiborne, LA
Built 1979 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 9,942
US0079
FairOver: BAYOU DARBONNE
1.16 MI NORTH OF LA 9, Claiborne, LA
Built 1979 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 5,728
LA0009
FairOver: BAYOU DARBONNE
1.35 MI EAST OF US 79, Claiborne, LA
Built 1978 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 2,567
LA0009
FairOver: BEAVER BRANCH
.92 MI NORTH OF LA 2, Claiborne, LA
Built 1979 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,812
LA0009
FairOver: FRAZIER CREEK
4.8 MI NORTH OF LA 2, Claiborne, LA
Built 1975 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 2,360
LA0009
FairOver: BEAVER CREEK
10.29MI NORTH OF LA 2 ALT, Claiborne, LA
Built 1953 Load: 47.2 t ADT: 1,775
Tenneco Rd
FairOver: FIVE MILE RD. FIVEMILE
1.5 MI. S. OF LA. 2, Claiborne, LA
Built 1957 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 70
Old Arcadia Rd
FairOver: TRIB TO CROWS CREEK
4.48 MI E OF US 79, Claiborne, LA
Built 1984 Load: 49.2 t ADT: 144
LA0002-A
FairOver: CREEK
1.8 MI EAST OF LA 520, Claiborne, LA
Built 1972 Load: 51.5 t ADT: 389
LA0009
FairOver: CYPRESS CREEK
246 MI NORTH OF LA 2, Claiborne, LA
Built 1992 Load: 58.1 t ADT: 1,812
LA0002-A
FairOver: CREEK
3.83 MI NW OF LA 9, Claiborne, LA
Built 1976 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 389
LA0002-A
FairOver: LEADBETTER CREEK
0.55 MI NW OF LA 9, Claiborne, LA
Built 1976 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 389
LA0146
FairOver: BRANCH
11.8 MI SE OF HOMER, Claiborne, LA
Built 1979 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 1,360
Line Rd
FairOver: BUCK CREEK
0.43 MI W. OF LA 534, Claiborne, LA
Built 1986 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 50
Columbia Rd
FairOver: LITTLE CORNEY CREEK TRIB
3.44 M EAST OF LA 521, Claiborne, LA
Built 1990 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 250
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