Total bridges
142
Public highway bridges in Jefferson Davis County
County profile · official public datasets
Jefferson Davis County, MS
142 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 77.5% rated Good, 19.7% Fair, 2.8% Poor.
- 142
- Public bridges
- 77.5%
- Good condition
- 2.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Jefferson Davis County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 23%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 142
- public highway bridges
- 1992
- 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.
Jefferson Davis County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Jefferson Davis County ranks #19 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.8%). Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi contains 142 public highway bridges. Roughly 77.5% are rated “Good,” 19.7% “Fair,” and 2.8% “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
77.5%
110 of 142 rated 7-9
Fair condition
19.7%
28 of 142 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.8%
4 of 142 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#19 of 82
Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 142 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 77.5% (110)
Fair 19.7% (28)
Poor 2.8% (4)
Jefferson Davis County's Poor-condition bridges carry 920 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 230 crossings a day against 879 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 142 of 142 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
14.8% of Jefferson Davis County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
21 of the 142 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 77.5% 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.
One structure carries 75% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR 184 over WHITE SAND CREEK, built 1937, carries 690 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 920 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Jefferson Davis County's bridges were built
142 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 6
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1960s 8
1960–1969
8 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
14 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
33 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
28 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
25 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
19 bridges
- 2020s 8
2020–2029
8 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 33 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1992, 6 years newer than the Mississippi average of 1986.
How Jefferson Davis County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Jefferson Davis County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.8% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1992 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tishomingo County | 144 | 58.3% | 37.5% | 4.2% | 1985 |
| Jefferson Davis County (this page) | 142 | 77.5% | 19.7% | 2.8% | 1992 |
| Leflore County | 139 | 40.3% | 50.4% | 9.4% | 1976 |
| Tate County | 139 | 39.6% | 58.3% | 2.2% | 1992 |
| Tippah County | 139 | 60.4% | 34.5% | 5% | 1989 |
| Claiborne County | 136 | 25% | 72.8% | 2.2% | 1978 |
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 Jefferson Davis 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 Jefferson Davis County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MS (142 bridges here).
- Monroe County, AL · 142 bridges
- Henderson County, IL · 142 bridges
- Graham County, KS · 142 bridges
- Kenton County, KY · 142 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1992 here).
- Johnson County, KS · avg 1992 · 781 bridges
- Wake County, NC · avg 1992 · 760 bridges
- Benton County, AR · avg 1992 · 410 bridges
- Nodaway County, MO · avg 1992 · 396 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (110)
STOREY PARKMAN RD
GoodOver: EAST FORK GREENS CREEK
SEC 31 T 6N R18W, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 2001 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 100
GRANBY ROAD
GoodOver: BRANCH OF JAYBIRD CREEK
SEC 10 T 7N R18W B, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 1992 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 610
HAYNES-GREY ROAD
GoodOver: WEST FORK GREENS CREEK
SEC 32 T 7N R18W, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 1996 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 70
S. SHADY GROVE RD
GoodOver: DRY CREEK
SEC 30 T 7N R19W, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 1996 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 60
SR 43
GoodOver: UNNAMED STREAM
3.7 MI W SR 13, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 1984 Load: 46.4 t ADT: 420
BLACKWELL ROAD
GoodOver: EAST FORK GREENS CREEK
SEC 20 T 6N R18W, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 2009 Load: 46.7 t ADT: 80
GRANBY-LONESTAR RD
GoodOver: BRANCH
SEC 7 T 7N R17W B, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 2001 Load: 51.3 t ADT: 930
SR 42
GoodOver: TOWN CREEK
0.8 MI W US 84, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 1940 Load: 53.1 t ADT: 7,600
SR 13
GoodOver: UNNAMED STREAM
5.2 MI N US 84, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 1940 Load: 64.0 t ADT: 2,700
BASS BURKETT ROAD
GoodOver: BRANCH
SEC 22 T 6N R18W, Jefferson Davis, MS
Built 2019 Load: 69.7 t ADT: 730
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