Total bridges
199
Public highway bridges in Neshoba County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
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.
When Neshoba County's bridges were built
199 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1940s 6
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s 5
1950–1959
5 bridges
- 1960s 13
1960–1969
13 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
37 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
42 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
49 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
22 bridges
- 2010s 17
2010–2019
17 bridges
- 2020s 8
2020–2029
8 bridges
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.
| 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.
Poor-condition bridges (7)
SR 395
PoorOver: CREEK
2.6 MI N SR 19, Neshoba, MS
Built 1971 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 550
LUKFAPA CREEK
PoorOver: CR 167
SEC 9 T12N R10E, Neshoba, MS
Built 2005 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 50
WEYERHAEUSER ST
PoorOver: BRANCH
SEC 36 T11N R11E, Neshoba, MS
Built 1979 Load: 23.8 t ADT: 6,200
COUNTY ROAD 832
PoorOver: NOXAPATER CREEK
SEC 4 T12N R12E B, Neshoba, MS
Built 1969 Load: 25.3 t ADT: 390
LAKESIDE DRIVE
PoorOver: KENTAWKA CREEK RELIEF
SEC 35 T11N R11E, Neshoba, MS
Built 1999 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 450
COUNTY ROAD 832
PoorOver: NOXAPATER CREEK RELIEF
SEC 9 T12N R12E B, Neshoba, MS
Built 1969 Load: 28.5 t ADT: 390
COUNTY ROAD 404
PoorOver: LUNELUAH CREEK
SEC 29 T10N R10E B, Neshoba, MS
Built 1996 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 300
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