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Pearl River County, MS

232 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 74.6% rated Good, 22.4% Fair, 3% Poor.

232
Public bridges
74.6%
Good condition
3%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 28%
lowest Poor share in state
3%
Poor-condition share
232
public highway bridges
1986
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.

Pearl River County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pearl River County ranks #23 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3%). Pearl River County, Mississippi contains 232 public highway bridges. Roughly 74.6% are rated “Good,” 22.4% “Fair,” and 3% “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

232

Public highway bridges in Pearl River County

Good condition

74.6%

173 of 232 rated 7-9

Fair condition

22.4%

52 of 232 rated 5-6

Poor condition

3%

7 of 232 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#23 of 82

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

Condition distribution

Share of 232 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
74.6% (173)
Fair
22.4% (52)
Poor
3% (7)

Pearl River County's Poor-condition bridges carry 18,550 vehicle crossings a day

That is 3.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,650 crossings a day against 2,218 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 232 of 232 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

32.8% of Pearl River County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

76 of the 232 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 74.6% 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 80.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US 11 over HOBOLOCHITTO CREEK, built 1948, carries 15,000 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 18,550 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Pearl River County's bridges were built

232 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 48 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1986) matches the Mississippi average (1986).

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

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

The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Pearl River County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1986 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Pearl River County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Pearl River County (this page) 232 3%
Panola County 231 5.6%
Itawamba County 229 3.5%
Attala County 228 5.3%
Oktibbeha County 226 3.5%
Carroll County 225 21.3%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside MS (232 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1986 here).

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

All 232 Good 173 Fair 52 Poor 7

Good-condition bridges (173)

SR 43

Good

Over: STREAM

6.7 MI N SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1930 Load: 20.4 t ADT: 320

SR 26

Good

Over: STREAM

7.3 MI E LA STATE LINE, Pearl River, MS

Built 1948 Load: 20.9 t ADT: 3,100

SR 43

Good

Over: BUCKLEY CREEK

5.2 MI N SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1930 Load: 21.1 t ADT: 320

SR 26

Good

Over: MURDER CREEK

2.3 MI W STONE CL, Pearl River, MS

Built 1956 Load: 21.4 t ADT: 2,200

US 11

Good

Over: STREAM

3.0 MI S SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1953 Load: 21.9 t ADT: 2,300

SR 26

Good

Over: ALLIGATOR CREEK

3.2 MI E I 59, Pearl River, MS

Built 1956 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 2,300

SR 43

Good

Over: STREAM

0.7 MI N SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1949 Load: 22.4 t ADT: 320

SR 26

Good

Over: STREAM

3.0 MI W US 11, Pearl River, MS

Built 1949 Load: 22.8 t ADT: 3,100

I 59

Good

Over: WOLF RIVER

2.1 MI N SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1963 Load: 23.9 t ADT: 8,000

SR 26

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

2.2 MI W STONE CL, Pearl River, MS

Built 1956 Load: 25.1 t ADT: 2,200

HILLSDALE ROAD

Good

Over: WOLF CREEK

SEC 28 T 1S R15W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1984 Load: 25.2 t ADT: 110

MCNEIL STEEP HOLLW

Good

Over: HOBOLOCHITTO CREEK

SEC 36 T 4S R16W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1985 Load: 25.2 t ADT: 560

FRANCES BURGE

Good

Over: BRANCH

SEC 22 T 4S R18W, Pearl River, MS

Built 2010 Load: 25.5 t ADT: 30

I 59

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

0.4 MI S SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1963 Load: 26.1 t ADT: 14,000

SR 26

Good

Over: STREAM

1.7 MI W I 59, Pearl River, MS

Built 1956 Load: 26.2 t ADT: 5,300

SR 43

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

15.7 MI N SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1996 Load: 26.7 t ADT: 430

SR 43

Good

Over: FORDS CREEK

14.4 MI N SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1996 Load: 26.8 t ADT: 320

JOHN AMACKER ROAD

Good

Over: HOBOLOCHITTO C

SEC 12 T 4S R17W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1994 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 460

GEORGE FORD ROAD

Good

Over: HOBOLOCHITTO CREEK

SEC 10 T 5S R17W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1997 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 200

SR 26

Good

Over: NORFOLK SOUTHERN RR

0.3 MI W SR 53, Pearl River, MS

Built 1991 Load: 27.3 t ADT: 8,900

THOMAS SCHOOL ROAD

Good

Over: HICKORY CREEK

SEC 24 T 1S R14W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1983 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 110

SAVANNA MILLARD RD

Good

Over: JUMPOFF CREEK

SEC 2 T 4S R16W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1978 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 1,200

W.UNION ROAD

Good

Over: HOBOLOCHITTO CK

SEC 34 T 5S R16W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1968 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 1,800

STANFORD LAKE RD

Good

Over: BIG BRANCH

SEC 33 T 1S R16W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1986 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 110

MILL CREEK ROAD

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

SEC 12 T 3S R15W, Pearl River, MS

Built 1988 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 80

BARTH ROAD

Good

Over: BRANCH

SEC 26 T 4S R14W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1975 Load: 28.5 t ADT: 440

HUMPHREY ROAD

Good

Over: BRANCH

SEC 6 T 3S R17W, Pearl River, MS

Built 2009 Load: 28.8 t ADT: 170

BUCK STUART ROAD

Good

Over: BRANCH

SEC 7 T 3S R17W, Pearl River, MS

Built 2009 Load: 28.8 t ADT: 110

SR 26

Good

Over: HOBOLOCHITTO CREEK

7.0 MI W US 11, Pearl River, MS

Built 1994 Load: 28.9 t ADT: 3,100

JACOBS ROAD

Good

Over: BRANCH

SEC 3 T 2S R15W, Pearl River, MS

Built 2011 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 70

HARRY SONES ROAD

Good

Over: POLE CREEK

SEC 22 T 4S R17W, Pearl River, MS

Built 2000 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 210

SECTION LINE ROAD

Good

Over: ALIGATOR BRANCH

SEC 27 T 6S R17W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1992 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 210

GEORGE WALKER ROAD

Good

Over: LOTTS CREEK

SEC 1 T 6S R18W, Pearl River, MS

Built 1997 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 300

MCNEIL MCHENRY RD

Good

Over: WOLF RIVER

SEC 1 T 4S R14W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1987 Load: 30.4 t ADT: 400

SR 43

Good

Over: HOBOLOCHITTO CREEK SPUR

1.0 MI S SR 43(SR43 SPUR), Pearl River, MS

Built 1974 Load: 30.6 t ADT: 4,900

SR 43

Good

Over: CHINQUAPIN CREEK

1.0 MI S SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1988 Load: 30.6 t ADT: 2,100

GUMPOND ROAD

Good

Over: I 59

13.2 MI N SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 1963 Load: 31.0 t ADT: 590

SR 43

Good

Over: NORFOLK SOUTHERN RR

0.5 MI W US 11, Pearl River, MS

Built 1972 Load: 31.5 t ADT: 14,000

SR 26

Good

Over: PEARL RIVER RELIEF

0.7 MI E LA STATE LINE, Pearl River, MS

Built 1988 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 5,000

JUNIPER GROVE ROAD

Good

Over: I 59

3.4 MI S SR 53, Pearl River, MS

Built 1964 Load: 31.8 t ADT: 290

SR 26

Good

Over: PEARL RIVER RELIEF

1.3 MI E LA STATE LINE, Pearl River, MS

Built 1988 Load: 32.0 t ADT: 5,000

W.UNION ROAD

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

SEC 18 T 5S R16W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1986 Load: 32.0 t ADT: 3,800

SR 43

Good

Over: HOBOLOCHITTO CREEK

1.7 MI N US 11, Pearl River, MS

Built 1972 Load: 32.3 t ADT: 8,900

SR 43

Good

Over: BUCK BRANCH

2.5 MI N SR 26, Pearl River, MS

Built 2002 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 320

PROGRESS ROAD

Good

Over: MURDER CREEK

SEC 14 T 3S R14W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 2006 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 690

LIBERTY ROAD

Good

Over: HOBOLOCHITTO CREEK

SEC 27 T 5S R17W, Pearl River, MS

Built 2000 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 250

HARVEY BURKS ROAD

Good

Over: LOTTS CREEK

SEC 25 T 5S R18W, Pearl River, MS

Built 1989 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 300

HICKORY GROVE ROAD

Good

Over: DRY CREEK

SEC 13 T 1S R14W, Pearl River, MS

Built 1993 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 120

REDMOND ROAD

Good

Over: HICORY CREEK

SEC 21 T 1S R14W, Pearl River, MS

Built 1995 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 170

HILT FORNEA ROAD

Good

Over: LONG BRANCH

SEC 22 T 2S R17W B, Pearl River, MS

Built 1967 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 230

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