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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.

Total bridges

155

Public highway bridges in Tallahatchie County

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

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).

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

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.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Tallahatchie County and the 5 Mississippi counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Yalobusha County 158 6.3%
Franklin County 157 10.2%
Tallahatchie County (this page) 155 20%
Clay County 154 1.9%
Walthall County 154 1.3%
Lamar County 150 0%

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).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1985 here).

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

All 155 Good 66 Fair 58 Poor 31

Poor-condition bridges (31)

MABUS ROAD

Poor

Over: DRY BRANCH

SEC 1 T22N R 1E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1987 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 30

HAYWARD JACKS ROAD

Poor

Over: TIPPO BAYOU

SEC_35_T22N_R 1E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1975 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 50

ISLAND ROAD

Poor

Over: TIPPO BAYOU

SEC 11 T23N R 1E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1940 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 20

ALLISON ROAD

Poor

Over: TIPPO BAYOU

SEC 14 T23N R 1E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1987 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 40

HAMPTON LAKE ROAD

Poor

Over: MATHEWS BAYOU

SEC 19 T23N R 1E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1969 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 40

WALDRUP ROAD

Poor

Over: TRIB TO QUIVER RIVER

SEC 18 T23N R 2W B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1972 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 50

HIGH POINT ROAD

Poor

Over: LITTLE BRUSHY CREEK

SEC 20 T23N R 2E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1975 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 10

STRDIVANT-WHITE RD

Poor

Over: QUIVER RIVER

SEC 32 T23N R 2W B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1975 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 70

FLAUTT ROAD

Poor

Over: CASSIDY BAYOU

SEC 14 T24N R 1W, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1968 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 50

MOUNCE RD

Poor

Over: DITCH

SEC 28 T24N R 2E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1945 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 5

LONG ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 2 T25N R 1W, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1970 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 60

GOVERNMENT ROAD

Poor

Over: TRIB OF LONG BAYOU

SEC 13 T25N R 1W, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1972 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 40

WHITE LAKE ROAD

Poor

Over: BRUSHY BAYOU

SEC 20 T25N R 1E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1964 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

WHITE LAKE ROAD

Poor

Over: OPPOSUM BAYOU

SEC 26 T25N R 1W B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1966 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

TUTWILER ROAD

Poor

Over: UPPER QUIVER RIVER

SEC 28 T25N R 2W, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1965 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 180

BREWER ROAD

Poor

Over: DITCH

SEC 35 T25N R 3E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1975 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 40

BACK ROAD

Poor

Over: DRAINAGE DITCH

SEC 8 T26N R 2E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1980 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 5

BACK ROAD

Poor

Over: DRAINAGE DITCH

SEC 8 T26N R 2E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1978 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 5

ORR DRIVE

Poor

Over: ROBINSON BAYOU

SEC 16 T26N R 2E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1982 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 10

RUFFIN ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 2 T26N R 3E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1945 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 40

RUFFIN ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 3 T26N R 3E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 2017 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 40

KING ROAD

Poor

Over: BURGESS CREEK

SEC 12 T26N R 3E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1954 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

MT. PISGAH ROAD

Poor

Over: BURKHALTER CREEK

SEC_27_T26N_R 3E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1972 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 40

MURPHREE ROAD

Poor

Over: TIPPO BAYOU

SEC 2 T23N R 1E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1961 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 10

ADAMS ROAD

Poor

Over: HUNTER CREEK

SEC 22 T25N R 3E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1945 Load: 3.0 t ADT: 80

PAUL-SHADY GROVE R

Poor

Over: ASCALMORE CREEK

SEC_34_T24N_R 3E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1976 Load: 12.1 t ADT: 120

SHELEY ROAD

Poor

Over: TRIB OF TALLAHATCHIE RIV

SEC 28 T25N R 1E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1982 Load: 16.1 t ADT: 120

BONNER ROAD

Poor

Over: SHELTON CREEK

SEC 11 T26N R 2E, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1976 Load: 17.4 t ADT: 60

TEASDALE ROAD

Poor

Over: TILLATOBA CRK

SEC 14 T25N R 2E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1963 Load: 17.5 t ADT: 1,100

TOOLE ROAD

Poor

Over: CREEK

SEC 5 T26N R 3E B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1978 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 50

STRDIVANT-WHITE RD

Poor

Over: PARKS BAYOU

SEC 28 T23N R 2W B, Tallahatchie, MS

Built 1970 Load: 23.1 t ADT: 90

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.