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Lauderdale County, MS

481 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 49.7% rated Good, 44.1% Fair, 6.2% Poor.

481
Public bridges
49.7%
Good condition
6.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Lauderdale County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

52nd
of 82 on Poor share
6.2%
Poor-condition share
481
public highway bridges
1976
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.

Lauderdale County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lauderdale County ranks #52 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.2%). Lauderdale County, Mississippi contains 481 public highway bridges. Roughly 49.7% are rated “Good,” 44.1% “Fair,” and 6.2% “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

481

Public highway bridges in Lauderdale County

Good condition

49.7%

239 of 481 rated 7-9

Fair condition

44.1%

212 of 481 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.2%

30 of 481 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#52 of 82

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

Condition distribution

Share of 481 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
49.7% (239)
Fair
44.1% (212)
Poor
6.2% (30)

Lauderdale County's Poor-condition bridges carry 9,415 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 314 crossings a day against 3,847 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 480 of 481 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

46.6% of Lauderdale County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

224 of the 481 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 49.7% 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 22.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CENTER HILL-MARTIN over GIN CREEK, built 1965, carries 2,100 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 30-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 9,415 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Lauderdale County's bridges were built

481 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 108 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1976, 10 years older than the Mississippi average of 1986.

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

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

The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Lauderdale County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.2% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 8 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lauderdale County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Lauderdale County (this page) 481 6.2%
Lee County 385 4.4%
Lincoln County 380 10.8%
Rankin County 374 5.3%
Jones County 329 7.6%
Washington County 317 10.4%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MS (481 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1976 here).

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

All 481 Good 239 Fair 212 Poor 30

Poor-condition bridges (30)

SAND FLAT RD

Poor

Over: LONG CREEK

SEC 24 T 6N R16E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1993 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

MEEHAN SAVOY N.

Poor

Over: BRANCH

SEC 4 T 5N R14E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1926 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 160

STUCKEY BRIDGE RD

Poor

Over: CHUNKY RIVER

SEC 22 T 5N R14E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1901 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 110

STUCKEY BRIDGE RD

Poor

Over: WANITA CREEK

SEC 28 T 5N R14E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1955 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 200

PICKARD CAMPBELL

Poor

Over: BUCATUNNA CREEK

SEC 32 T 5N R17E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1987 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 60

34TH ST

Poor

Over: GALLAGHER CREEK

SEC 1 T 6N R15E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1971 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 1,150

MURPHY ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 6 T 6N R17E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1987 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 230

R JOHNSON ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 2 T 6N R18E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1996 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

MAIDEN ROAD

Poor

Over: BRANCH

SEC 3 T 7N R14E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1950 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 150

PINE SPRINGS RD.

Poor

Over: RODGERS CREEK

SEC 16 T 7N R15E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1930 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 1,100

52ND ST

Poor

Over: GALLAGHER CREEK

SEC 36 T 7N R15E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1975 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 700

DALE DRIVE

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 34 T 7N R16E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1930 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 270

SNOWDEN ROAD

Poor

Over: HOUSE CREEK

SEC 2 T 8N R14E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1991 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

LEEVILLE ROAD

Poor

Over: GIN CREEK

SEC 5 T 8N R14E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1940 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

MAYATT ROAD

Poor

Over: GIN CREEK

SEC 8 T 8N R14E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1940 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

OLD HWY 39

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 16 T 8N R16E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1946 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 243

ROSSIE SMITH ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 28 T 6N R16E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1999 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 10

CHANDLER CHURCH R.

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 10 T 7N R17E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1970 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 15

OLD SAVOY ROAD

Poor

Over: UNNAMED STREAM

SEC 33 T 6N R14E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1933 Load: 4.9 t ADT: 107

SUQUALENA-NEWTON

Poor

Over: BOGUE FLOWER CREEK

SEC 17 T 7N R14E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1993 Load: 6.0 t ADT: 150

DABBS ROAD

Poor

Over: ROGERS CREEK

SEC 10 T 7N R15E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1991 Load: 12.5 t ADT: 80

ROB SIMS ROAD

Poor

Over: TEDDER BRANCH

SEC 10 T 5N R17E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1991 Load: 13.1 t ADT: 60

MCGLOTHIN RD

Poor

Over: LITTLE CREEK

SEC 9 T 5N R15E, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1998 Load: 13.8 t ADT: 100

LIZELIA ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 26 T 8N R16E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1938 Load: 15.7 t ADT: 1,200

ARUNDEL ROAD

Poor

Over: HOGNOSE CREEK

SEC 4 T 5N R15E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1987 Load: 18.6 t ADT: 250

LAKEVIEW GOLF C RD

Poor

Over: BRANCH

SEC 25 T 6N R16E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1993 Load: 18.7 t ADT: 70

CENTER HILL-MARTIN

Poor

Over: GIN CREEK

SEC 19 T 8N R15E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1965 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 2,100

CAUSEYVILLE H-CANE

Poor

Over: HURRICANE CREEK

SEC 33 T 5N R18E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1968 Load: 22.2 t ADT: 60

OXFORD ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 36 T 8N R18E B, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1969 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 80

ARUNDEL ROAD

Poor

Over: I 59

8.2 MI N CLARKE CL, Lauderdale, MS

Built 1965 Load: 57.3 t ADT: 360

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.