Total bridges
214
Public highway bridges in Wayne County
County profile · official public datasets
Wayne County, MS
214 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.7% rated Good, 44.9% Fair, 8.4% Poor.
- 214
- Public bridges
- 46.7%
- Good condition
- 8.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Wayne County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 65th
- of 82 on Poor share
- 8.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 214
- public highway bridges
- 1988
- 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.
Wayne County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wayne County ranks #65 of 82 Mississippi counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 8.4%). Wayne County, Mississippi contains 214 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.7% are rated “Good,” 44.9% “Fair,” and 8.4% “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
46.7%
100 of 214 rated 7-9
Fair condition
44.9%
96 of 214 rated 5-6
Poor condition
8.4%
18 of 214 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#65 of 82
Among Mississippi counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 214 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 46.7% (100)
Fair 44.9% (96)
Poor 8.4% (18)
Wayne County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,960 vehicle crossings a day
That is 5.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 8.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 776 crossings a day against 1,772 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 214 of 214 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
28.5% of Wayne County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
61 of the 214 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 46.7% 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 38% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR 184 over CHICKASAWHAY RIVER, built 1937, carries 5,300 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 18-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 13,960 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Wayne County's bridges were built
214 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 6
1930–1939
6 bridges
- 1950s 7
1950–1959
7 bridges
- 1960s 21
1960–1969
21 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
43 bridges
- 1980s 22
1980–1989
22 bridges
- 1990s 26
1990–1999
26 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
72 bridges
- 2010s 14
2010–2019
14 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 72 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 33.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1988) matches the Mississippi average (1986).
How Wayne County compares with Mississippi's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Mississippi counties nearest Wayne County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 8.4% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1988 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 81 Mississippi counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne County (this page) | 214 | 46.7% | 44.9% | 8.4% | 1988 |
| Alcorn County | 213 | 64.8% | 33.8% | 1.4% | 1991 |
| Calhoun County | 213 | 48.8% | 40.8% | 10.3% | 1985 |
| Holmes County | 212 | 52.4% | 39.6% | 8% | 1988 |
| Kemper County | 211 | 60.2% | 37% | 2.8% | 1991 |
| Pike County | 211 | 55.5% | 38.9% | 5.7% | 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 Wayne 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 Wayne County, both outside Mississippi so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MS (214 bridges here).
- Lee County, AL · 214 bridges
- White County, IL · 214 bridges
- White County, IN · 214 bridges
- Lee County, IA · 214 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MS (1988 here).
- Travis County, TX · avg 1988 · 1,544 bridges
- Grant County, OK · avg 1988 · 476 bridges
- Loudoun County, VA · avg 1988 · 442 bridges
- Licking County, OH · avg 1988 · 439 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (18)
CRAL-STA LOOP RD
PoorOver: CARSON SAND CREEK
SEC 11 T10N R 7W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1960 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 190
MVILL FROST BR RD
PoorOver: BUCATUNNA CREEK
SEC 33 T10N R 5W, Wayne, MS
Built 1974 Load: 2.5 t ADT: 200
CHCORA-GREEN CO RD
PoorOver: HENRY CREEK
SEC 15 T 6N R 6W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1974 Load: 3.0 t ADT: 50
BUCKATUNNA-CHICORA
PoorOver: CHICKASAWHAY RIVER
SEC 23 T 7N R 6W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1969 Load: 11.6 t ADT: 640
DEW MILLS RD
PoorOver: BR OF LITTLE THOMPSON CK
SEC 13 T 8N R 9W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1969 Load: 15.5 t ADT: 80
WBORO SHUBUTA RD
PoorOver: YELLOW CREEK
SEC 18 T 9N R 7W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1958 Load: 16.8 t ADT: 640
BUCATUNA MILLRY RD
PoorOver: RED CREEK
SEC 21 T 7N R 5W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1962 Load: 17.6 t ADT: 722
WBORO SHUBUTA RD
PoorOver: SANDY CREEK
SEC 34 T 9N R 7W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1957 Load: 17.7 t ADT: 1,698
REYNOLDS-EUCUTTA R
PoorOver: WAGON BRANCH
SEC 2 T 9N R 9W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1963 Load: 18.2 t ADT: 1,100
BT FOUR SHUBUTA RD
PoorOver: DRY FORK CREEK
SEC 10 T 9N R 8W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1972 Load: 22.0 t ADT: 140
RIVER LOOP ROAD
PoorOver: YELLOW CREEK
SEC 22 T 9N R 7W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1974 Load: 23.5 t ADT: 100
SR 184
PoorOver: CHICKASAWHAY RIVER
2.2 MI W SR 63, Wayne, MS
Built 1937 Load: 23.9 t ADT: 5,300
CNTY-LAKE DNHAM RD
PoorOver: PATTON CREEK
SEC 9 T 8N R 6W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1975 Load: 24.2 t ADT: 1,300
LEES CHAPEL RD
PoorOver: MAYNOR CREEK
SEC 29 T 8N R 7W, Wayne, MS
Built 1972 Load: 24.6 t ADT: 60
BT FOUR SHUBUTA RD
PoorOver: YELLOW CREEK
SEC 15 T 9N R 8W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1972 Load: 26.8 t ADT: 140
RESERVOIR ROAD
PoorOver: MAYNOR CREEK
SEC 17 T 8N R 7W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1973 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 780
RESERVOIR RD
PoorOver: BIG CREEK
SEC 14 T 8N R 8W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1967 Load: 27.4 t ADT: 670
CLARA RD
PoorOver: MILE CREEK
SEC 33 T 7N R 7W B, Wayne, MS
Built 1975 Load: 27.8 t ADT: 150
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