Total bridges
195
Public highway bridges in LaSalle County
County profile · official public datasets
LaSalle County, LA
195 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 60% rated Good, 34.4% Fair, 5.6% Poor.
- 195
- Public bridges
- 60%
- Good condition
- 5.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
LaSalle County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 13%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 5.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 195
- public highway bridges
- 1983
- 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.
LaSalle County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, LaSalle County ranks #8 of 64 Louisiana counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.6%). LaSalle County, Louisiana contains 195 public highway bridges. Roughly 60% are rated “Good,” 34.4% “Fair,” and 5.6% “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
60%
117 of 195 rated 7-9
Fair condition
34.4%
67 of 195 rated 5-6
Poor condition
5.6%
11 of 195 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#8 of 64
Among Louisiana counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 195 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 60% (117)
Fair 34.4% (67)
Poor 5.6% (11)
LaSalle County's Poor-condition bridges carry 16,925 vehicle crossings a day
That is 6.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,539 crossings a day against 1,019 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 191 of 195 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
33.3% of LaSalle County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
65 of the 195 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 60% 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 27.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US0165 over LITTLE RIVER, built 1956, carries 4,700 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 11-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 16,925 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When LaSalle County's bridges were built
195 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
22 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
27 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
27 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
39 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
28 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
34 bridges
- 2010s 13
2010–2019
13 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 39 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1983) matches the Louisiana average (1982).
How LaSalle County compares with Louisiana's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Louisiana counties nearest LaSalle County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.6% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1983 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 63 Louisiana counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richland County | 207 | 21.3% | 67.6% | 11.1% | 1979 |
| De Soto County | 201 | 27.9% | 67.2% | 5% | 1980 |
| Sabine County | 195 | 57.4% | 31.8% | 10.8% | 1983 |
| LaSalle County (this page) | 195 | 60% | 34.4% | 5.6% | 1983 |
| Webster County | 194 | 21.6% | 53.1% | 25.3% | 1975 |
| Bienville County | 190 | 20% | 51.6% | 28.4% | 1979 |
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 LaSalle 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 LaSalle County, both outside Louisiana so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside LA (195 bridges here).
- Otero County, CO · 195 bridges
- Lucas County, IA · 195 bridges
- Wilson County, NC · 195 bridges
- Williamsburg County, SC · 195 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside LA (1983 here).
- Dallas County, TX · avg 1983 · 3,230 bridges
- Bexar County, TX · avg 1983 · 2,342 bridges
- Sedgwick County, KS · avg 1983 · 1,333 bridges
- Will County, IL · avg 1983 · 649 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (195)
LA0460
FairOver: GRAY CREEK
4.4 MI EAST OF LA 127, LaSalle, LA
Built 1974 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 776
LA0459
FairOver: HAIRS CREEK
1.60 M N of US 84, LaSalle, LA
Built 1983 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 1,160
LA0459
FairOver: BRUSHLEY CREEK
10.1 MI NORTH OS US 84, LaSalle, LA
Built 1981 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 1,160
LA0770
FairOver: LITTLE CHICKSAW
1.4 MI WEST OF LA 127, LaSalle, LA
Built 1984 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 129
LA0773
FairOver: CREEK
.5 MI NORTH OF LA 774, LaSalle, LA
Built 1981 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 1,537
LA3071
FairOver: ROCKY CREEK
2.9 MI EAST OF LA 503, LaSalle, LA
Built 1979 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 429
LA3259
FairOver: CREEK
.7 MI SOUTH OF LA 125, LaSalle, LA
Built 1977 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 1,236
US0165
FairOver: COCKERHAM CREEK
2.4 MI SOUTH OF US 84, LaSalle, LA
Built 1956 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 3,518
US0084
FairOver: DOYLE CREEK
.3 MI EAST OF LA 8, LaSalle, LA
Built 1967 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 2,479
West Bradford St
FairOver: WEST HEMPHILL CREEK
0.2 MILES WEST OF LA 8, LaSalle, LA
Built 1985 Load: 46.7 t ADT: 370
US0165
FairOver: LITTLE RIVER RELIEF
2.6 MI SOUTH OF US 84, LaSalle, LA
Built 1956 Load: 49.9 t ADT: 3,518
LA0028
FairOver: LITTLE SALINE B
14.5 MI SOUTH OF LA 84, LaSalle, LA
Built 1960 Load: 61.7 t ADT: 5,026
US0165
FairOver: LITTLE RIVER RELIEF
0.32 MILES FROM GRANT PAR, LaSalle, LA
Built 2008 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 4,538
Randall Lane
FairOver: BUSHY CREEK
0.5 MILES EAST OF LA.3071, LaSalle, LA
Built 2015 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 100
Tingle Rd
FairOver: MUDDY PRONG
0.8 MILES SOUTH OF LA 8, LaSalle, LA
Built 1984 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 70
Melody Acres
FairOver: KITCHEN CREEK
LOG MI 2.45 FR 541 TO 543, LaSalle, LA
Built 2001 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 20
Pleasant Ridge Rd
FairOver: FRANKLIN BRANCH
LOG MI. 1.4 FR 636 TO 638, LaSalle, LA
Built 2000 Load: 74.5 t ADT: 50
Janet Rd
GoodOver: DEVILS CREEK
LOGMI 0.06 FR ODE TO, LaSalle, LA
Built 1975 Load: 12.5 t
US0084
GoodOver: WEST PRONG HEMP CREEK
.2 MI WEST OF LA 127, LaSalle, LA
Built 1956 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 6,905
LA0127
GoodOver: LITTLE CHICKASAW
6.2 MI NORTH OF LA 503, LaSalle, LA
Built 1950 Load: 20.9 t ADT: 3,888
LA0459
GoodOver: GREENS CREEK
3.9 MI NORTH OS US 84, LaSalle, LA
Built 1958 Load: 20.9 t ADT: 1,160
MAGNOLIA LOOP
GoodOver: ROUTH CREEK
0.9 MI SE OF LA 776, LaSalle, LA
Built 2005 Load: 21.4 t ADT: 73
LA0008
GoodOver: LITTLE RIVER
8.0 MI SOUTH OF LA 774, LaSalle, LA
Built 1981 Load: 21.7 t ADT: 1,590
LA0460
GoodOver: CREEK
6.7 MI EAST OF LA 127, LaSalle, LA
Built 1978 Load: 23.3 t ADT: 776
Mt. Sinai
GoodOver: TROUT CREEK
LOGMI 4.60 FR 518 TO 450, LaSalle, LA
Built 1998 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 180
Zimmer Creek Rd
GoodOver: Thunderbird Creek
0.6 m North of US 84E, LaSalle, LA
Built 1997 Load: 24.3 t ADT: 110
Zimmer Creek Rd
GoodOver: Zimmer Creek
1.1miles southwest LA 127, LaSalle, LA
Built 1999 Load: 24.6 t ADT: 50
Garan Dr
GoodOver: CREEK
450 south of US 84E, LaSalle, LA
Built 1969 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 105
Sunshine Rd
GoodOver: BAYOU FUNNY LOUIS
0.07M FROM 468 TO 649, LaSalle, LA
Built 1992 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 60
Windmill Rd
GoodOver: RHINEHART CREEK
.1 mile fr blade loop jct, LaSalle, LA
Built 2002 Load: 25.6 t ADT: 60
Magnolia Loop
GoodOver: ROUTH CREEK
LOGMI 0.66 FR 80 TO ODE, LaSalle, LA
Built 2000 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 50
Moffett Rd
GoodOver: DEVILS CREEK
LOGMI 0.83 FR ODE TO 63, LaSalle, LA
Built 2000 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 100
Wh Sulphur Spr Rd
GoodOver: KITTERLINE CREEK
LOGMI 2.87 FR 94 TO 101, LaSalle, LA
Built 1999 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 200
Wh Sulphur Spr Rd
GoodOver: HURRICANE CREEK
LOGMI 4.05 FR 94 TO 101, LaSalle, LA
Built 1998 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 220
Snyder Rd
GoodOver: TROUT CREEK
LOGMI 4.35 FR 507 TO 172, LaSalle, LA
Built 2000 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 100
W Baker St
GoodOver: CREEK
0.3 M W of US 84/LA 8, LaSalle, LA
Built 1997 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 25
Tram Rd
GoodOver: BAYOU FUNNY LOUIS
1.45 LOG MI FR 518 TO 450, LaSalle, LA
Built 1987 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 50
Cowart St
GoodOver: ELI COOPER BRIDGE CREEK
LOG MI 1.15 FR 358 TO ODE, LaSalle, LA
Built 1998 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 40
Taylor Chapel Rd
GoodOver: FUNNY LOUIS BAYOU
1.2 MI W of La 127, LaSalle, LA
Built 1999 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 110
Reeves Cutoff
GoodOver: Bayou Funny Louis
05. MI N of La 503, LaSalle, LA
Built 1997 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 50
Rainey Arena Rd
GoodOver: BAYOU FUNNY LOUIS
LOGMI 0.38 FR 648 TO 467, LaSalle, LA
Built 1999 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 60
Mixon Rd
GoodOver: CHICKASAW CREEK
LOGMI 1.67 FR 612 TO 618, LaSalle, LA
Built 1999 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 50
Sandy Dr
GoodOver: SANDY CREEK
NORTH OF LA 125, LaSalle, LA
Built 1992 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 120
Sandy Dr
GoodOver: SANDY CREEK
LOGMI 1.91 FR 594 TO 598, LaSalle, LA
Built 2000 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 210
Elm St
GoodOver: WEST PRONG HEMPHILL CREE
160 East of US 84, LaSalle, LA
Built 1998 Load: 26.6 t ADT: 28
Indian Bluff Rd
GoodOver: CREEK
LOG MI. 1.15 FR 70 TO ODE, LaSalle, LA
Built 1998 Load: 26.9 t ADT: 70
COOPER LOOP ROAD
GoodOver: COOPER LOOP CREEK
0.02 MI S OF LA 8, LaSalle, LA
Built 2011 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 63
LA0008
GoodOver: HEMPS CREEK WEST
.01 MI NORTH OF LA 127, LaSalle, LA
Built 2007 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 1,628
US0165
GoodOver: CREEK
0.91 MILES NORTH OF THE L, LaSalle, LA
Built 2009 Load: 28.8 t ADT: 4,538
Sparrow Rd
GoodOver: TROUT CREEK
0.5 Miles North of LA 8, LaSalle, LA
Built 2013 Load: 29.2 t ADT: 300
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