Total bridges
193
Public highway bridges in Jasper County
County profile · official public datasets
Jasper County, MS
193 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 55.4% rated Good, 34.7% Fair, 9.8% Poor.
- 193
- Public bridges
- 55.4%
- Good condition
- 9.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Jasper County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 70th
- of 82 on Poor share
- 9.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 193
- public highway bridges
- 1988
- 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.
Jasper County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Jasper County ranks #70 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.8%). Jasper County, Mississippi contains 193 public highway bridges. Roughly 55.4% are rated “Good,” 34.7% “Fair,” and 9.8% “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
55.4%
107 of 193 rated 7-9
Fair condition
34.7%
67 of 193 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.8%
19 of 193 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#70 of 82
Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 193 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 55.4% (107)
Fair 34.7% (67)
Poor 9.8% (19)
Jasper County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,053 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 266 crossings a day against 1,627 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 193 of 193 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
32.6% of Jasper County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
63 of the 193 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 55.4% 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.
One structure carries 14.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
JASPER CO. 13 over BCH OF TALLAHALA CREEK, built 1976, carries 730 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 19-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 5,053 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Jasper County's bridges were built
193 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 3
1930–1939
3 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s 6
1950–1959
6 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
39 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
19 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
30 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
26 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
33 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
29 bridges
- 2020s 7
2020–2029
7 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 39 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1988) matches the Mississippi average (1986).
How Jasper County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Jasper County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.8% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marion County | 201 | 72.1% | 22.9% | 5% | 1987 |
| Simpson County | 200 | 63.5% | 30% | 6.5% | 1984 |
| Leake County | 199 | 80.9% | 18.1% | 1% | 1986 |
| Neshoba County | 199 | 58.8% | 37.7% | 3.5% | 1989 |
| Scott County | 199 | 53.3% | 45.2% | 1.5% | 1988 |
| Jasper County (this page) | 193 | 55.4% | 34.7% | 9.8% | 1988 |
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 Jasper 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 Jasper County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MS (193 bridges here).
- Jo Daviess County, IL · 193 bridges
- Cecil County, MD · 193 bridges
- Blue Earth County, MN · 193 bridges
- Cooper County, MO · 193 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1988 here).
- Travis County, TX · avg 1988 · 1,544 bridges
- Grant County, OK · avg 1988 · 476 bridges
- Loudoun County, VA · avg 1988 · 442 bridges
- Licking County, OH · avg 1988 · 439 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (67)
JASPER CO. 2420
FairOver: LITTLE CREEK
SEC 5 T 4N R13E, Jasper, MS
Built 2002 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 30
JASPER CO. 24
FairOver: WEST TALLAHALA CREEK
SEC 7 T 4N R10E B, Jasper, MS
Built 2005 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 80
JASPER CO. 6
FairOver: LITTLE BOGUE HOMA
SEC 7 T10N R 9W B, Jasper, MS
Built 1986 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 390
JASPER CO. 16
FairOver: TALLAHALA CREEK
SEC 12 T 2N R11E B, Jasper, MS
Built 1998 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 390
JASPER CO. 23
FairOver: QUARTERLIAH CREEK
SEC 16 T 4N R10E B, Jasper, MS
Built 1995 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 250
JASPER CO. 35
FairOver: BOGUE HOMO CREEK
SEC 4 T10N R10W B, Jasper, MS
Built 1998 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 720
JASPER CO. 31
FairOver: TALLAHATTAH CREEK
SEC 3 T10N R11W B, Jasper, MS
Built 1998 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 280
SR 18
FairOver: CHICKAWILLOWSAW CREEK
0.3 MI W CLARKE CL, Jasper, MS
Built 1980 Load: 39.4 t ADT: 630
JASPER CO. 29
FairOver: EAST TALLAHALA CREEK
SEC 15 T 3N R11E B, Jasper, MS
Built 2004 Load: 39.6 t ADT: 200
SR 504
FairOver: SCOTCHENFLIPPER CREEK
NEWTON /JASPER CL, Jasper, MS
Built 1985 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 660
SR 528
FairOver: TALLAHATTA CREEK
0.5 M W SR 503, Jasper, MS
Built 1984 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 1,200
JASPER CO. 10
FairOver: ETEHOMO CREEK
SEC 2 T10N R13W B, Jasper, MS
Built 1999 Load: 44.8 t ADT: 800
SR 18
FairOver: STREAM
8.3 MI E SR 15, Jasper, MS
Built 1980 Load: 45.3 t ADT: 910
I 59
FairOver: STREAM
2.4 MI S SR 18, Jasper, MS
Built 1966 Load: 49.5 t ADT: 7,000
I 59
FairOver: STREAM
2.4 MI S SR 18, Jasper, MS
Built 1966 Load: 49.5 t ADT: 7,000
COUNTY ROAD 35
FairOver: I 59
9.4 MI N JONES CL, Jasper, MS
Built 1965 Load: 58.3 t ADT: 460
COUNTY ROAD 39
FairOver: I 59
5.0 MI N SR 528, Jasper, MS
Built 1965 Load: 62.4 t ADT: 200
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