Total bridges
206
Public highway bridges in Pemiscot County
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Pemiscot County, MO
206 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 34.5% rated Good, 56.3% Fair, 9.2% Poor.
- 206
- Public bridges
- 34.5%
- Good condition
- 9.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pemiscot County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 62nd
- of 115 on Poor share
- 9.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 206
- public highway bridges
- 1980
- 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.
Pemiscot County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pemiscot County ranks #62 of 115 Missouri counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 9.2%). Pemiscot County, Missouri contains 206 public highway bridges. Roughly 34.5% are rated “Good,” 56.3% “Fair,” and 9.2% “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
34.5%
71 of 206 rated 7-9
Fair condition
56.3%
116 of 206 rated 5-6
Poor condition
9.2%
19 of 206 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#62 of 115
Among Missouri counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 206 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 34.5% (71)
Fair 56.3% (116)
Poor 9.2% (19)
Pemiscot County's Poor-condition bridges carry 21,280 vehicle crossings a day
That is 4.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 9.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,120 crossings a day against 1,324 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 206 of 206 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
45.6% of Pemiscot County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
94 of the 206 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 34.5% 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 44.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
MO 84 E over IS 55, built 1969, carries 9,530 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 19-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 21,280 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Pemiscot County's bridges were built
206 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 3
1900–1909
3 bridges
- 1920s 7
1920–1929
7 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
20 bridges
- 1940s 4
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s 9
1950–1959
9 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
28 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
27 bridges
- 1980s 4
1980–1989
4 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
36 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
38 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
20 bridges
- 2020s 10
2020–2029
10 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 38 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Missouri average (1979).
How Pemiscot County compares with Missouri's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Missouri counties nearest Pemiscot County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 9.2% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1982 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 114 Missouri counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunklin County | 214 | 43% | 50.5% | 6.5% | 1977 |
| Putnam County | 213 | 48.8% | 35.7% | 15.5% | 1985 |
| Barton County | 211 | 42.2% | 47.9% | 10% | 1977 |
| Caldwell County | 208 | 39.9% | 49.5% | 10.6% | 1975 |
| Pemiscot County (this page) | 206 | 34.5% | 56.3% | 9.2% | 1980 |
| Scotland County | 201 | 35.8% | 59.7% | 4.5% | 1995 |
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 Pemiscot 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 Pemiscot County, both outside Missouri so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MO (206 bridges here).
- Dale County, AL · 206 bridges
- Henry County, IN · 206 bridges
- Audubon County, IA · 206 bridges
- Bourbon County, KS · 206 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MO (1980 here).
- Tulsa County, OK · avg 1980 · 1,135 bridges
- Miami-Dade County, FL · avg 1980 · 1,057 bridges
- Pulaski County, AR · avg 1980 · 721 bridges
- McLennan County, TX · avg 1980 · 714 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (71)
COUNTY RD 232
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH #40
S 7 T 20 N R 11 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2014 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 100
MO 164 E
GoodOver: NEW FRANKLIN DTCH
S 23 T 17 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 1995 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 425
COUNTY RD 536
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 11 T 17 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 1994 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 100
COUNTY RD 538
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 14 T 17 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 1994 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 100
COUNTY RD 561
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 12 T 16 N R 11 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 1993 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 50
US 412 E
GoodOver: BNSF RR
S 4 T 18 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2001 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 3,348
US 412 W
GoodOver: BNSF RR
S 4 T 18 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2001 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 3,188
US 61 N
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH NO 12
S 19 T 17 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 1993 Load: 51.3 t ADT: 1,757
US 412 E
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH NO 8
S 31 T 19 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2002 Load: 55.8 t ADT: 3,936
COUNTY RD 217
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 16 T 20 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2016 Load: 59.4 t ADT: 100
524 E
GoodOver: LATERAL DTCH NO 5
S 4 T 17 N R 13 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2003 Load: 61.2 t ADT: 162
COUNTY RD 344
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 3 T 18 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2016 Load: 62.1 t ADT: 250
IS 155 S
GoodOver: LATERAL DTCH NO 5
S 4 T 17 N R 13 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2003 Load: 67.5 t ADT: 13,360
COUNTY RD 287
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 30 T 19 N R 11 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2016 Load: 68.4 t ADT: 30
COUNTY RD 223
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 10 T 20 N R 11 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2016 Load: 68.4 t ADT: 15
MO 84 E
GoodOver: MAIN DTCH NO 6
S 2 T 18 N R 12 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 1987 Load: 72.9 t ADT: 4,545
RT A E
GoodOver: LATERAL DTCH NO 74
S 35 T 19 N R 10 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2004 Load: 95.4 t ADT: 287
US 412 E
GoodOver: ELK CHUTE
S 35 T 19 N R 11 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2000 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 7,973
COUNTY RD 287
GoodOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 36 T 19 N R 10 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 1996 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 50
COUNTY RD 228
GoodOver: LATERAL NO 68
S 36 T 20 N R 10 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2002 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 50
COUNTY RD 285
GoodOver: LATERAL NO 69
S 7 T 19 N R 11 E, Pemiscot, MO
Built 2002 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 50
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