Total bridges
205
Public highway bridges in Prentiss County
County profile · official public datasets
Prentiss County, MS
205 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 68.8% rated Good, 26.3% Fair, 4.9% Poor.
- 205
- Public bridges
- 68.8%
- Good condition
- 4.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Prentiss County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 49%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 4.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 205
- public highway bridges
- 1987
- 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.
Prentiss County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Prentiss County ranks #40 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.9%). Prentiss County, Mississippi contains 205 public highway bridges. Roughly 68.8% are rated “Good,” 26.3% “Fair,” and 4.9% “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
68.8%
141 of 205 rated 7-9
Fair condition
26.3%
54 of 205 rated 5-6
Poor condition
4.9%
10 of 205 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#40 of 82
Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 205 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 68.8% (141)
Fair 26.3% (54)
Poor 4.9% (10)
Prentiss County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,086 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 409 crossings a day against 1,578 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 205 of 205 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
27.3% of Prentiss County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
56 of the 205 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 68.8% 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 53.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
MARKET STREET over KCS RAILROAD, built 1959, carries 2,200 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 10-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 4,086 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Prentiss County's bridges were built
205 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 3
1930–1939
3 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
24 bridges
- 1960s 19
1960–1969
19 bridges
- 1970s 15
1970–1979
15 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
38 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
49 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
28 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
22 bridges
- 2020s 7
2020–2029
7 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 49 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1987) matches the Mississippi average (1986).
How Prentiss County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Prentiss County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.9% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1987 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amite County | 210 | 69% | 21.4% | 9.5% | 1987 |
| Prentiss County (this page) | 205 | 68.8% | 26.3% | 4.9% | 1987 |
| Union County | 202 | 53.5% | 45% | 1.5% | 1990 |
| 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 |
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 Prentiss 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 Prentiss County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MS (205 bridges here).
- Geneva County, AL · 205 bridges
- Russell County, AL · 205 bridges
- Wilson County, KS · 205 bridges
- Bell County, KY · 205 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1987 here).
- St. Louis County, MO · avg 1987 · 912 bridges
- Ellis County, TX · avg 1987 · 691 bridges
- St. Louis County, MN · avg 1987 · 663 bridges
- Palm Beach County, FL · avg 1987 · 610 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (205)
CR 3450
FairOver: LITTLE BROWN CREEK
SEC 8 T 6S R 9E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1960 Load: 1.0 t ADT: 30
CR 1150
FairOver: TUSCUMBIA RIVER
SEC 13 T 4S R 7E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1967 Load: 3.7 t ADT: 140
BURNS STREET
FairOver: UNNAMED STREAM
SEC 25 T 6S R 6E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1981 Load: 4.3 t ADT: 90
CR 4001
FairOver: UNNAMED CREEK
SEC 15 T 7S R 8E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1972 Load: 4.8 t ADT: 80
CR 3440
FairOver: LITTLE BROWN CREEK
SEC 4 T 6S R 9E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1970 Load: 5.9 t ADT: 30
CR 3430
FairOver: WESSON BRANCH
SEC 32 T 5S R 9E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1980 Load: 6.2 t ADT: 10
CR 4251
FairOver: CAVINESS BRANCH
SEC 4 T 7S R 9E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1983 Load: 7.2 t ADT: 10
CR 5250
FairOver: HURRICANE CREEK
SEC 19 T 6S R 8E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1950 Load: 9.4 t ADT: 40
CR 7040
FairOver: UNNAMED CREEK
SEC 10 T 5S R 6E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1984 Load: 9.7 t ADT: 60
CR 6100
FairOver: OKEELALA CREEK
SEC 20 T 6S R 6E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1961 Load: 10.6 t ADT: 800
N. COLLEGE ST.
FairOver: TUSCUMBIA CREEK
SEC 3 T 5S R 7E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1983 Load: 11.7 t ADT: 1,500
CR 5226
FairOver: DUGGER CREEK
SEC 29 T 6S R 7E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1982 Load: 12.1 t ADT: 80
BURNS STREET
FairOver: UNNAMED CREEK
SEC 25 T 6S R 6E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1968 Load: 13.0 t ADT: 30
NORTH SECOND ST.
FairOver: TOWN CREEK
SEC 25 T 6S R 6E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1970 Load: 13.7 t ADT: 360
CR 3371
FairOver: MARTIN CREEK
SEC 28 T 5S R 8E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1962 Load: 16.0 t ADT: 590
CR 4050
FairOver: HURRICANE CREEK
SEC 34 T 6S R 8E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1960 Load: 16.4 t ADT: 210
CR 4001
FairOver: UNNAMED CREEK
SEC 3 T 7S R 8E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1970 Load: 17.5 t ADT: 140
CR 4140
FairOver: LITTLE BROWN CREEK
SEC 36 T 6S R 8E, Prentiss, MS
Built 2004 Load: 18.3 t ADT: 20
CR 4050
FairOver: BROWN CREEK
SEC 35 T 6S R 8E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1965 Load: 18.8 t ADT: 210
CR 7200
FairOver: WOLF CREEK
SEC 15 T 5S R 6E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1960 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 510
CR 4140
FairOver: WESSON CREEK
SEC 36 T 6S R 8E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1955 Load: 19.6 t ADT: 20
SR 4
FairOver: BIG BROWN CREEK
1.0 MI E SR 371, Prentiss, MS
Built 1956 Load: 20.2 t ADT: 1,200
CR 8340
FairOver: POLLYS CREEK
SEC 14 T 4S R 6E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 2005 Load: 20.9 t ADT: 45
SR 4
FairOver: YOUNGS CREEK
0.8 MI E SR 371, Prentiss, MS
Built 1956 Load: 22.2 t ADT: 1,200
COUNTY ROAD 7450
FairOver: TWENTYMILE CREEK
SEC 2 T 6S R 6E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1968 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 300
SR 145
FairOver: CREEK
1.6 MI N LEE CL, Prentiss, MS
Built 1937 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 3,100
SR 364
FairOver: CLAWSET CREEK
10.1 MI E SR 30, Prentiss, MS
Built 1981 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 1,200
SR 30
FairOver: BIG BROWN CREEK
3.8 MI E SR 4, Prentiss, MS
Built 1953 Load: 24.2 t ADT: 3,400
SR 145
FairOver: TOWN CREEK
1.5 MI N LEE CL, Prentiss, MS
Built 1937 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,100
SR 30
FairOver: MARTIN CREEK
2.8 MI E SR 4, Prentiss, MS
Built 1953 Load: 24.6 t ADT: 3,400
SR 4
FairOver: JENSAY CREEK
4.4 MI W TISHOMINGO CL, Prentiss, MS
Built 1959 Load: 24.7 t ADT: 1,300
SR 4
FairOver: LITTLE BROWN CREEK
5.9 MI E JCT SR 371, Prentiss, MS
Built 1959 Load: 24.7 t ADT: 1,300
SR 30
FairOver: LITTLE BROWN CREEK
8.4 MI E SR 4, Prentiss, MS
Built 1953 Load: 24.9 t ADT: 2,000
COUNTY ROAD 3401
FairOver: JENSAY CREEK
SEC 18 T 6S R 9E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1966 Load: 25.8 t ADT: 210
SR 370
FairOver: TISHOMINGO CREEK
0.1 MI E UNION CL, Prentiss, MS
Built 1955 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 1,200
COUNTY ROAD 4301
FairOver: SAUCER CREEK
SEC 15 T 7S R 9E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1975 Load: 27.5 t ADT: 444
SR 362
FairOver: OSBORNE CREEK
0.7 MI E SR 145, Prentiss, MS
Built 1961 Load: 28.9 t ADT: 890
SR 4
FairOver: STREAM
1.2 MI E SR 371, Prentiss, MS
Built 1956 Load: 29.3 t ADT: 1,200
SR 362
FairOver: TWENTY MILE CREEK
0.4 MI E SR 145, Prentiss, MS
Built 1961 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 890
SR 362
FairOver: WOLF CREEK
0.5 MI E SR 145, Prentiss, MS
Built 1961 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 890
COUNTY ROAD 7100
FairOver: DRY CREEK
SEC 6 T 5S R 6E, Prentiss, MS
Built 2004 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 80
CR 3321
FairOver: UNNAMED CREEK
SEC 1 T 6S R 8E, Prentiss, MS
Built 2005 Load: 30.7 t ADT: 70
CR 364
FairOver: YELLOW CREEK
SEC 15 T 4S R 9E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1959 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 702
COUNTY ROAD 7411
FairOver: UNNAMED CREEK
SEC 35 T 5S R 6E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1985 Load: 32.3 t ADT: 271
SR 365
FairOver: STREAM
1.2 MI N SR 30, Prentiss, MS
Built 1955 Load: 33.0 t ADT: 670
SR 364
FairOver: MARTIN CREEK
0.9 MI E SR 30, Prentiss, MS
Built 1976 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 1,800
SR 364
FairOver: STREAM
6.1 MI E SR 30, Prentiss, MS
Built 1981 Load: 35.2 t ADT: 1,200
COUNTY ROAD 1381
FairOver: MOORES CREEK
SEC 11 T 4S R 8E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1996 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 324
COUNTY ROAD 5011
FairOver: BOYER CREEK
SEC 30 T 5S R 7E, Prentiss, MS
Built 1995 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 120
CR 5260
FairOver: LITTLE CREEK
SEC 21 T 6S R 8E B, Prentiss, MS
Built 1989 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 166
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