Total bridges
385
Public highway bridges in Lee County
County profile · official public datasets
Lee County, MS
385 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 66.8% rated Good, 28.8% Fair, 4.4% Poor.
- 385
- Public bridges
- 66.8%
- Good condition
- 4.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lee County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 46%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 4.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 385
- public highway bridges
- 1984
- 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.
Lee County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lee County ranks #38 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.4%). Lee County, Mississippi contains 385 public highway bridges. Roughly 66.8% are rated “Good,” 28.8% “Fair,” and 4.4% “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
66.8%
257 of 385 rated 7-9
Fair condition
28.8%
111 of 385 rated 5-6
Poor condition
4.4%
17 of 385 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#38 of 82
Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 385 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 66.8% (257)
Fair 28.8% (111)
Poor 4.4% (17)
Lee County's Poor-condition bridges carry 26,939 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,585 crossings a day against 5,511 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 385 of 385 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
25.7% of Lee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
99 of the 385 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 66.8% 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 48.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
EASON BLVD over TOWN AND KINGS CREEK, built 1965, carries 13,000 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 17-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 26,939 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Lee County's bridges were built
385 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 8
1930–1939
8 bridges
- 1940s 5
1940–1949
5 bridges
- 1950s 34
1950–1959
34 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
36 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
53 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
87 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
79 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
48 bridges
- 2010s 32
2010–2019
32 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 87 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1984) matches the Mississippi average (1986).
How Lee County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Lee County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.4% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee County (this page) | 385 | 66.8% | 28.8% | 4.4% | 1984 |
| Lincoln County | 380 | 58.9% | 30.3% | 10.8% | 1986 |
| Rankin County | 374 | 57.2% | 37.4% | 5.3% | 1985 |
| Jones County | 329 | 48.3% | 44.1% | 7.6% | 1982 |
| Washington County | 317 | 34.7% | 54.9% | 10.4% | 1984 |
| Madison County | 311 | 51.1% | 45.7% | 3.2% | 1983 |
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 Lee 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 Lee County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MS (385 bridges here).
- Hillsborough County, NH · 385 bridges
- Calhoun County, AL · 386 bridges
- Stanislaus County, CA · 386 bridges
- Gibson County, TN · 386 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1984 here).
- Hennepin County, MN · avg 1984 · 936 bridges
- Duval County, FL · avg 1984 · 831 bridges
- El Paso County, CO · avg 1984 · 686 bridges
- Bell County, TX · avg 1984 · 660 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (17)
CR 1213
PoorOver: TWENTY MILE CREEK
SEC 19 T 7S R 7E, Lee, MS
Built 1966 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 10
FELLOWSHIP ROAD
PoorOver: BROCK CREEK
SEC 28 T 8S R 6E, Lee, MS
Built 1956 Load: 0.3 t ADT: 80
CR 1310
PoorOver: BOGUEGABA CREEK
SEC_27_T 9S_R 7E, Lee, MS
Built 1965 Load: 1.6 t ADT: 100
CR 2346
PoorOver: PUNCHEON CREEK
SEC 17 T 8S R 7E, Lee, MS
Built 1965 Load: 1.8 t ADT: 180
CR 1310
PoorOver: BOGUEGABA CREEK
SEC 29 T 9S R 7E, Lee, MS
Built 1965 Load: 2.7 t ADT: 100
CR 712
PoorOver: CARMICHAEL CREEK
SEC_31_T10S_R 7E, Lee, MS
Built 1978 Load: 2.9 t ADT: 40
CR 300
PoorOver: TUBBALUBBA CREEK
SEC 17 T11S R 5E, Lee, MS
Built 1930 Load: 3.5 t ADT: 730
CR 1027
PoorOver: GARRETT CREEK
SEC 14 T10S R 6E, Lee, MS
Built 1964 Load: 4.1 t ADT: 10
CR 1666
PoorOver: BOGUEFALA CREEK
SEC 5 T 9S R 7E B, Lee, MS
Built 1991 Load: 5.2 t ADT: 880
CR 231
PoorOver: TISHOMINGO CRK N. BRANCH
SEC 11 T 7S R 5E B, Lee, MS
Built 1985 Load: 10.2 t ADT: 650
GREEN TEE ROAD
PoorOver: BARLEY LAKE BRANCH
SEC 14 T10S R 5E, Lee, MS
Built 1990 Load: 17.3 t ADT: 99
PALMETTO ROAD
PoorOver: COONEWAH CREEK
SEC 23 T10S R 5E B, Lee, MS
Built 1958 Load: 17.4 t ADT: 3,900
EASON BLVD
PoorOver: TOWN AND KINGS CREEK
SEC 8 T10S R 6E, Lee, MS
Built 1965 Load: 19.8 t ADT: 13,000
SR 145
PoorOver: TOWN CREEK TRIB EAST
0.6 MI N MONROE CL, Lee, MS
Built 1937 Load: 21.3 t ADT: 4,600
CR 1093
PoorOver: SMITH CREEK
SEC 35 T10S R 6E, Lee, MS
Built 1991 Load: 22.3 t ADT: 40
2578
PoorOver: TWENTY MILE CREEK
SEC 20 T 7S R 7E B, Lee, MS
Built 1972 Load: 27.1 t ADT: 220
SR 6
PoorOver: SMITH CREEK
7.8 MI S SR 178, Lee, MS
Built 1955 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 2,300
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