Total bridges
155
Public highway bridges in Tallahatchie County
County profile · official public datasets
Tallahatchie County, MS
155 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 42.6% rated Good, 37.4% Fair, 20% Poor.
- 155
- Public bridges
- 42.6%
- Good condition
- 20%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Tallahatchie County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 80th
- of 82 on Poor share
- 20%
- Poor-condition share
- 155
- public highway bridges
- 1985
- 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.
Tallahatchie County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Tallahatchie County ranks #80 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 20%). Tallahatchie County, Mississippi contains 155 public highway bridges. Roughly 42.6% are rated “Good,” 37.4% “Fair,” and 20% “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
42.6%
66 of 155 rated 7-9
Fair condition
37.4%
58 of 155 rated 5-6
Poor condition
20%
31 of 155 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#80 of 82
Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 155 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 42.6% (66)
Fair 37.4% (58)
Poor 20% (31)
Tallahatchie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,695 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 20% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 87 crossings a day against 741 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 155 of 155 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
31.6% of Tallahatchie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
49 of the 155 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 42.6% 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 40.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
TEASDALE ROAD over TILLATOBA CRK, built 1963, carries 1,100 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 31-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 2,695 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Tallahatchie County's bridges were built
155 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1940s 9
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s 8
1950–1959
8 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
18 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
34 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
27 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
21 bridges
- 2000s 12
2000–2009
12 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
23 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 34 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1985) matches the Mississippi average (1986).
How Tallahatchie County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Tallahatchie County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 20% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1985 against a peer-group mean of 1985 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yalobusha County | 158 | 45.6% | 48.1% | 6.3% | 1979 |
| Franklin County | 157 | 58.6% | 31.2% | 10.2% | 1987 |
| Tallahatchie County (this page) | 155 | 42.6% | 37.4% | 20% | 1985 |
| Clay County | 154 | 73.4% | 24.7% | 1.9% | 1988 |
| Walthall County | 154 | 85.7% | 13% | 1.3% | 1987 |
| Lamar County | 150 | 82.7% | 17.3% | 0% | 1985 |
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 Tallahatchie 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 Tallahatchie County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MS (155 bridges here).
- Clarke County, AL · 155 bridges
- Marshall County, IL · 155 bridges
- Haskell County, OK · 155 bridges
- Clatsop County, OR · 155 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1985 here).
- Hillsborough County, FL · avg 1985 · 840 bridges
- Lancaster County, NE · avg 1985 · 661 bridges
- Nueces County, TX · avg 1985 · 528 bridges
- Grayson County, TX · avg 1985 · 513 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (66)
SR 32
GoodOver: ILLINOIS CENTRAL RR
3.9 MI E US 49E, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 2018 Load: 40.7 t ADT: 950
SR 32
GoodOver: PARKS BAYOU
4.3 MI E SUNFLOWER CL, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1966 Load: 41.4 t ADT: 610
SR 32
GoodOver: BLUE LAKE
1.7 MI E SUNFLOWER CL, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1966 Load: 41.5 t ADT: 450
FRIENDSHIP EAST RD
GoodOver: MITCHELL CREEK
SEC 2 T25N R 2E, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1996 Load: 42.8 t ADT: 60
ASCALAMORE CREEK R
GoodOver: YOUNG CREEK
SEC 29 T24N R 3E, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1999 Load: 43.4 t ADT: 30
SR 35
GoodOver: STREAM
2.8 MI N GRENADA CL, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1956 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 1,100
US 49
GoodOver: HOPSON BAYOU
0.3 MI N SR 3, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 2021 Load: 45.5 t ADT: 3,800
US 49E
GoodOver: BLACK BAYOU
5.2 MI N SR 8, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 2020 Load: 45.6 t ADT: 1,400
SR 32
GoodOver: RELIEF OPENING
4.8 MI W SR 35, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 2018 Load: 47.9 t ADT: 1,900
SR 32
GoodOver: RELIEF OPENING
6.6 MI W SR 35, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 2018 Load: 48.7 t ADT: 880
DEEP SLOUGH ROAD
GoodOver: QUIVER RIVER
SEC 7 T24N R 2W, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 2007 Load: 48.9 t ADT: 70
TOM PAYNE ROAD
GoodOver: CREEK
SEC 4 T24N R 3E, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1998 Load: 52.5 t ADT: 30
MORRIS DRIVE
GoodOver: PARKS BAYOU
SEC 22 T23N R 2W, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1999 Load: 57.0 t ADT: 10
US 49E
GoodOver: STREAM
8.4 MI N LEFLORE CL, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1990 Load: 67.5 t ADT: 1,600
SR 32
GoodOver: SLOUGH
5.0 M W SR 35, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 2018 Load: 88.3 t ADT: 1,900
HORSESHOE BREAK DR
GoodOver: PARKS BAYOU
SEC 32 T23N R 2W, Tallahatchie, MS
Built 1996 Load: 94.0 t ADT: 10
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