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Kemper County, MS

211 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 60.2% rated Good, 37% Fair, 2.8% Poor.

211
Public bridges
60.2%
Good condition
2.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Kemper County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 26%
lowest Poor share in state
2.8%
Poor-condition share
211
public highway bridges
1991
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.

Kemper County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Kemper County ranks #21 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.8%). Kemper County, Mississippi contains 211 public highway bridges. Roughly 60.2% are rated “Good,” 37% “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.

Total bridges

211

Public highway bridges in Kemper County

Good condition

60.2%

127 of 211 rated 7-9

Fair condition

37%

78 of 211 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.8%

6 of 211 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#21 of 82

Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 211 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
60.2% (127)
Fair
37% (78)
Poor
2.8% (6)

Kemper County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,850 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.9% 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 475 crossings a day against 987 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 211 of 211 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

13.3% of Kemper County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

28 of the 211 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 60.2% 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 59.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SR 39 over PAWTICFAW CREEK, built 1950, carries 1,700 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 2,850 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Kemper County's bridges were built

211 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 66 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 31.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1991, 5 years newer than the Mississippi average of 1986.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Kemper County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Kemper County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.8% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1991 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Kemper County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Alcorn County 213 1.4%
Calhoun County 213 10.3%
Holmes County 212 8%
Pike County 211 5.7%
Kemper County (this page) 211 2.8%
Amite County 210 9.5%

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 Kemper 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 Kemper County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MS (211 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1991 here).

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 211 Good 127 Fair 78 Poor 6

Good-condition bridges (127)

SR 498

Good

Over: RELIEF

0.7 MI E US 45, Kemper, MS

Built 1991 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 340

FAS437 OLD JACKSON

Good

Over: CREEK

SEC 17 T10N R15E B, Kemper, MS

Built 1996 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 200

NESTER ROAD

Good

Over: CALLIE BRANCH

SEC 12 T11N R15E, Kemper, MS

Built 2003 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 300

INDIAN BRANCH ROAD

Good

Over: INDIAN BRANCH

SEC 24 T12N R15E, Kemper, MS

Built 2006 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 30

BINNSVILLE RD

Good

Over: BRANCH

SEC 26 T12N R18E B, Kemper, MS

Built 1990 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 300

BULL SWAMP ROAD

Good

Over: OKATIBBEE CREEK

SEC 9 T 9N R14E, Kemper, MS

Built 1999 Load: 41.1 t ADT: 90

CLARKE CHAPEL ROAD

Good

Over: LAND CREEK

SEC 26 T11N R14E, Kemper, MS

Built 2011 Load: 41.1 t ADT: 45

SR 493

Good

Over: STREAM

0.2 MI N LAUDERDALE CL, Kemper, MS

Built 1988 Load: 41.4 t ADT: 560

HOWARD JOHNSON RD

Good

Over: CAP BRANCH

SEC 11 T 9N R17E, Kemper, MS

Built 1996 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 60

GREY YOUNG ROAD

Good

Over: COW CREEK

SEC 2 T11N R14E, Kemper, MS

Built 1996 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 45

US 45 CONNECTOR

Good

Over: DITCH

0.7 MI N LAUDERDALE CL, Kemper, MS

Built 1986 Load: 42.7 t ADT: 320

SR 39

Good

Over: DITCH

0.8 MI N LAUDERDALE CL, Kemper, MS

Built 1959 Load: 43.4 t ADT: 2,100

DUB SMITH ROAD

Good

Over: SORGHUM BRANCH

SEC 6 T10N R14E, Kemper, MS

Built 1997 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 120

SR 16

Good

Over: LITTLE SCOOBA CREEK

7.8 MI E SR 39, Kemper, MS

Built 1979 Load: 44.6 t ADT: 1,600

SR 21

Good

Over: STREAM

1.9 MI N SR 397, Kemper, MS

Built 1959 Load: 46.3 t ADT: 690

FAS437 OLD JACKSON

Good

Over: SMITH BRANCH

SEC 31 T10N R14E B, Kemper, MS

Built 1996 Load: 46.4 t ADT: 220

SR 16

Good

Over: OLD CREEK

0.5 MI W US 45, Kemper, MS

Built 1968 Load: 47.8 t ADT: 1,800

SR 16

Good

Over: RELIEF

2.7 MI E US 45, Kemper, MS

Built 1988 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 1,900

SR 498

Good

Over: DITCH

0.5 MI E US 45, Kemper, MS

Built 1991 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 340

KEYTOWN ROAD

Good

Over: CREEK

SEC 27 T10N R15E, Kemper, MS

Built 1996 Load: 52.6 t ADT: 100

FRANK MCDANIELS RD

Good

Over: PAWTICFAW CREEK

SEC 15 T10N R15E, Kemper, MS

Built 2010 Load: 52.9 t ADT: 140

US 45

Good

Over: STREAM

0.4 MI N SR 498, Kemper, MS

Built 1986 Load: 54.0 t ADT: 4,400

US 45

Good

Over: WAHALAK CREEK RELIEF

5.0 MI N SR 16, Kemper, MS

Built 1997 Load: 54.5 t ADT: 2,700

US 45

Good

Over: WAHALAK CREEK RELIEF

5.0 MI N SR 16, Kemper, MS

Built 1996 Load: 54.5 t ADT: 2,700

SR 16

Good

Over: BIG SCOOBA CREEK

8.3 MI E SR 39, Kemper, MS

Built 1979 Load: 57.4 t ADT: 1,600

US 45

Good

Over: STREAM

0.8 MI N LAUDERDALE CL, Kemper, MS

Built 1986 Load: 60.3 t ADT: 5,600

NEIL MCCELLAND RD.

Good

Over: BRANCH OF BLACKWATER CK

SEC 13 T 9N R15E, Kemper, MS

Built 2019 Load: 97.2 t ADT: 25

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