Total bridges
139
Public highway bridges in Leflore County
County profile · official public datasets
Leflore County, MS
139 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.3% rated Good, 50.4% Fair, 9.4% Poor.
- 139
- Public bridges
- 40.3%
- Good condition
- 9.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Leflore 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.
- 67th
- of 82 on Poor share
- 9.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 139
- 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.
Leflore County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Leflore County ranks #67 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.4%). Leflore County, Mississippi contains 139 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.3% are rated “Good,” 50.4% “Fair,” and 9.4% “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
40.3%
56 of 139 rated 7-9
Fair condition
50.4%
70 of 139 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.4%
13 of 139 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#67 of 82
Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 139 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40.3% (56)
Fair 50.4% (70)
Poor 9.4% (13)
Leflore County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,400 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 646 crossings a day against 1,488 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 139 of 139 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
48.9% of Leflore County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
68 of the 139 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 40.3% 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 23.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR 8 over FIGHTING BAYOU, built 1953, carries 2,000 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 13-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 8,400 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Leflore County's bridges were built
139 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 7
1930–1939
7 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
28 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
19 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
17 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
31 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
18 bridges
- 2000s 9
2000–2009
9 bridges
- 2010s 5
2010–2019
5 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 31 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1976, 10 years older than the Mississippi average of 1986.
How Leflore County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Leflore County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.4% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is 11 years older.
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 | 142 | 77.5% | 19.7% | 2.8% | 1992 |
| Tate County | 139 | 39.6% | 58.3% | 2.2% | 1992 |
| Tippah County | 139 | 60.4% | 34.5% | 5% | 1989 |
| Leflore County (this page) | 139 | 40.3% | 50.4% | 9.4% | 1976 |
| 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 Leflore 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 Leflore County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MS (139 bridges here).
- Bulloch County, GA · 139 bridges
- St. Helena County, LA · 139 bridges
- Garrett County, MD · 139 bridges
- Midland County, MI · 139 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1976 here).
- Marion County, IN · avg 1976 · 958 bridges
- Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
- Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
- Prince George's County, MD · avg 1976 · 576 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (70)
CO RD 120
FairOver: PECAN BAYOU
SEC 31 T21N R 2W, Leflore, MS
Built 1967 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 40
CO RD 526
FairOver: RELIEF DITCH
SEC_22_T22N_R 1W B, Leflore, MS
Built 1959 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 110
CO RD 4
FairOver: UNNAMED STREAM
SEC 10 T22N R 2W, Leflore, MS
Built 1990 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 30
CO RD 526
FairOver: DUGAN BAYOU
SEC_14_T22N_R 2W B, Leflore, MS
Built 1957 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 60
CO RD 34
FairOver: DUGAN BAYOU
SEC 31 T22N R 2W, Leflore, MS
Built 1969 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 30
US 82
FairOver: CNIC RR/CITY STREET
0.2 MI W US 49E SOUTH, Leflore, MS
Built 1962 Load: 35.5 t ADT: 20,000
US 49E
FairOver: RELIEF
2.7 MI S US 82, Leflore, MS
Built 1986 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 3,500
CO RD 511
FairOver: ALLIGATOR BAYOU
SEC_25_T18N_R 1W B, Leflore, MS
Built 1976 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 1,200
CO RD 546
FairOver: BEAR CREEK
SEC 20 T18N R 2W B, Leflore, MS
Built 1985 Load: 38.2 t ADT: 30
US 82
FairOver: US 49E
US 82 OVER US 49E, Leflore, MS
Built 1962 Load: 38.7 t ADT: 20,000
POPLAR STREET
FairOver: YAZOO RIVER
SEC 10 T19N R 1E, Leflore, MS
Built 1964 Load: 39.5 t ADT: 8,600
US 49E
FairOver: RELIEF DITCH
1.2 MI N HOLMES CL, Leflore, MS
Built 1986 Load: 40.1 t ADT: 2,800
CO RD 547
FairOver: RELIEF DITCH
SEC_ 4_T18N_R 2W B, Leflore, MS
Built 1958 Load: 40.2 t ADT: 80
CO RD 512
FairOver: DRAINAGE CANAL
SEC 26 T19N R 1E B, Leflore, MS
Built 1970 Load: 41.1 t ADT: 920
US 82
FairOver: TALLAHATCHIE YAZOO CUTO
0.1 MI E US 49E NORTH, Leflore, MS
Built 1959 Load: 44.7 t ADT: 7,500
CO RD 35
FairOver: FIGHTING BAYOU
SEC 7 T21N R 2W, Leflore, MS
Built 2009 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 40
SR 7
FairOver: BIG SAND CREEK
2.8 MI N US 82, Leflore, MS
Built 1962 Load: 47.6 t ADT: 4,200
CO RD 511
FairOver: CATFISH BAYOU
SEC 19 T18N R 1E B, Leflore, MS
Built 1997 Load: 53.5 t ADT: 1,200
MARKET STREET
FairOver: PALUSHA BAYOU
SEC 10 T19N R 1E, Leflore, MS
Built 1988 Load: 61.6 t ADT: 6,000
US 82
FairOver: CANAL
3.1 MI E SUNFLOWER CL, Leflore, MS
Built 1980 Load: 99.0 t ADT: 6,400
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Related
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainBridges
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.