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Neshoba County, MS

199 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 58.8% rated Good, 37.7% Fair, 3.5% Poor.

199
Public bridges: 58.8%
Good condition: 3.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Neshoba County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 33%
lowest Poor share in state: 3.5%
Poor-condition share: 199
public highway bridges: 1989
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.

Neshoba County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Neshoba County ranks #27 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.5%). Neshoba County, Mississippi contains 199 public highway bridges. Roughly 58.8% are rated “Good,” 37.7% “Fair,” and 3.5% “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

199

Public highway bridges in Neshoba County

Good condition

58.8%

117 of 199 rated 7-9

Fair condition

37.7%

75 of 199 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3.5%

7 of 199 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#27 of 82

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

Condition distribution

Share of 199 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

58.8% (117)

Fair

37.7% (75)

Poor

3.5% (7)

Neshoba County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,330 vehicle crossings a day

That is 2.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,190 crossings a day against 2,341 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 199 of 199 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

17.1% of Neshoba County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

34 of the 199 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 58.8% 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 74.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

WEYERHAEUSER ST over BRANCH, built 1979, carries 6,200 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 8,330 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1940s

6
1950s

5
1960s

13
1970s

37
1980s

42
1990s

49
2000s

22
2010s

17
2020s

8

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 49 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1989) matches the Mississippi average (1986).

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

The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Neshoba County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.5% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1989 against a peer-group mean of 1986 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Neshoba County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Marion County	201	72.1%	22.9%	5%	1987
Noxubee County	201	50.2%	45.8%	4%	1985
Simpson County	200	63.5%	30%	6.5%	1984
Leake County	199	80.9%	18.1%	1%	1986
Scott County	199	53.3%	45.2%	1.5%	1988
Neshoba County (this page)	199	58.8%	37.7%	3.5%	1989

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MS (199 bridges here).

Montgomery County, AR · 199 bridges
Warren County, IL · 199 bridges
Dallas County, IA · 199 bridges
Latimer County, OK · 199 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1989 here).

Harris County, TX · avg 1989 · 4,029 bridges
Mecklenburg County, NC · avg 1989 · 746 bridges
Buffalo County, NE · avg 1989 · 459 bridges
Brazos County, TX · avg 1989 · 370 bridges

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

All 199 Good 117 Fair 75 Poor 7

Good-condition bridges (117)

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Neshoba County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Neshoba County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,330 vehicle crossings a day

17.1% of Neshoba County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 74.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

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

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Good-condition bridges (117)

COUNTY ROAD 397

SR 491

SR 19

SR 19

COUNTY ROAD 505

COUNTY ROAD 561

ST FRANCIS DRIVE

COUNTY ROAD 624

COUNTY ROAD 836

SR 15

SR 488

SR 19

SR 488

SR 16

COUNTY ROAD 610

SR 16

SR 482

SR 482

SR 15

SR 492

SR 21

COUNTY ROAD 703

COUNTY ROAD 573

COUNTY ROAD 763

COUNTY ROAD 836

SR 21

SR 15

COUNTY ROAD 127

MYRTLE STREET

COUNTY ROAD 339

SR 16

SR 16

SR 15

COUNTY ROAD 602

SR 485

SR 491

COUNTY ROAD 515

COUNTY ROAD 145

COUNTY ROAD 614

COUNTY ROAD 404

SR 19

SR 482

SR 21

SR 16

COUNTY ROAD 1129

SR 16

SR 19

SR 19

SR 19

SR 19

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