Total bridges
434
Public highway bridges in Stoddard County
County profile · official public datasets
Stoddard County, MO
434 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.1% rated Good, 53.2% Fair, 3.7% Poor.
- 434
- Public bridges
- 43.1%
- Good condition
- 3.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Stoddard County posts a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 8%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 3.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 434
- public highway bridges
- 1976
- 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.
Stoddard County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Stoddard County ranks #9 of 115 Missouri counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 3.7%). Stoddard County, Missouri contains 434 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.1% are rated “Good,” 53.2% “Fair,” and 3.7% “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
43.1%
187 of 434 rated 7-9
Fair condition
53.2%
231 of 434 rated 5-6
Poor condition
3.7%
16 of 434 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#9 of 115
Among Missouri counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 434 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 43.1% (187)
Fair 53.2% (231)
Poor 3.7% (16)
Stoddard County's Poor-condition bridges carry 9,482 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 3.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 593 crossings a day against 1,065 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 434 of 434 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
49.1% of Stoddard County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
213 of the 434 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 43.1% 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 27.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
MO 114 E over DEXTER CR, built 1934, carries 2,605 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 16-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 9,482 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Stoddard County's bridges were built
434 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 3
1900–1909
3 bridges
- 1920s 26
1920–1929
26 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
28 bridges
- 1940s 19
1940–1949
19 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
56 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
47 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
48 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
36 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
67 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
47 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
51 bridges
- 2020s 6
2020–2029
6 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 67 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 15.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Missouri average (1979).
How Stoddard County compares with Missouri's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Missouri counties nearest Stoddard County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 3.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 8 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 114 Missouri counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jasper County | 471 | 42% | 46.9% | 11% | 1978 |
| Clay County | 436 | 38.1% | 55% | 6.9% | 1979 |
| Stoddard County (this page) | 434 | 43.1% | 53.2% | 3.7% | 1976 |
| St. Charles County | 417 | 32.4% | 64.3% | 3.4% | 1994 |
| Jefferson County | 411 | 33.6% | 63% | 3.4% | 1981 |
| Vernon County | 401 | 35.4% | 60.3% | 4.2% | 1988 |
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 Stoddard 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 Stoddard County, both outside Missouri so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside MO (434 bridges here).
- Pinellas County, FL · 435 bridges
- Platte County, NE · 433 bridges
- Plymouth County, IA · 432 bridges
- Butte County, CA · 437 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside MO (1976 here).
- Marion County, IN · avg 1976 · 958 bridges
- Mohave County, AZ · avg 1976 · 641 bridges
- Comanche County, OK · avg 1976 · 593 bridges
- Prince George's County, MD · avg 1976 · 576 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (231)
RT T S
FairOver: TURKEY CR
S 4 T 26 N R 8 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1955 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 1,187
RT PP E
FairOver: GOOSE POND DTCH
S 28 T 27 N R 9 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 2010 Load: 41.4 t ADT: 980
COUNTY RD 760
FairOver: IRDD #8 DTCH
S 24 T 24 N R 11 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 2002 Load: 42.3 t ADT: 250
US 60 E
FairOver: DEXTER CR
S 14 T 25 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1960 Load: 43.2 t ADT: 17,577
RT ZZ S
FairOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 3 T 24 N R 9 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1961 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 594
COUNTY RD 518
FairOver: LITTLE RVR
S 6 T 26 N R 13 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1989 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 35
US 60 E
FairOver: DRAIN DTCH #41
S 3 T 25 N R 12 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1960 Load: 45.0 t ADT: 12,383
COUNTY RD 326
FairOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 23 T 28 N R 11 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1958 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 15
US 60 E
FairOver: MINGO DTCH
S 27 T 25 N R 8 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1978 Load: 45.9 t ADT: 5,537
US 60 E
FairOver: SPRING CREEK
S 23 T 25 N R 9 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 2011 Load: 47.7 t ADT: 9,297
RT Z E
FairOver: LIT RVR DRAIN DTCH
S 33 T 24 N R 12 W, Stoddard, MO
Built 1957 Load: 47.7 t ADT: 255
MO 25 S
FairOver: DELEWARE CR
S 35 T 26 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1927 Load: 48.6 t ADT: 3,652
MO 114 W
FairOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 19 T 25 N R 11 W, Stoddard, MO
Built 2010 Load: 49.5 t ADT: 2,106
RT Z E
FairOver: MAIN DRAIN DTCH
S 6 T 23 N R 12 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1957 Load: 50.4 t ADT: 255
MO 91 S
FairOver: JOHNS CR
S 3 T 27 N R 11 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1968 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 908
OR 60 E
FairOver: DEXTER CR
S 14 T 25 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1987 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 673
US 60 E
FairOver: DRAIN DTCH #37
S 1 T 25 N R 12 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1995 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 4,735
MO 25 S
FairOver: LINK CR
S 1 T 26 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1922 Load: 54.9 t ADT: 4,973
RT Z E
FairOver: LIT RVR DRAIN DTCH
S 34 T 24 N R 12 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1957 Load: 55.8 t ADT: 255
RT Y E
FairOver: SMALL CR
S 20 T 27 N R 11 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1977 Load: 58.5 t ADT: 2,098
MO 25 S
FairOver: US 60
S 14 T 25 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 2004 Load: 59.4 t ADT: 7,205
US 60 E
FairOver: LATERAL DRAIN DTCH
S 7 T 25 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1995 Load: 61.2 t ADT: 6,443
COUNTY RD 386
FairOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 22 T 27 N R 12 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1997 Load: 64.8 t ADT: 15
OR 60 E
FairOver: PRARIE CR DTCH
S 25 T 25 N R 8 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1993 Load: 65.7 t ADT: 383
COUNTY RD 413
FairOver: CREEK
S 16 T 25 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1973 Load: 66.6 t ADT: 200
MO 25 S
FairOver: WEBER BR
S 23 T 26 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1937 Load: 67.5 t ADT: 5,093
RT D E
FairOver: LATERAL DTCH #2
S 11 T 24 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 2001 Load: 71.1 t ADT: 345
RT D E
FairOver: MAIN DTCH #37
S 10 T 24 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 2001 Load: 90.0 t ADT: 345
RT D E
FairOver: LATERAL DTCH #3
S 11 T 24 N R 10 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 2001 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 345
COUNTY RD 340
FairOver: DRAIN DTCH
S 352 T 28 N R 11 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 1998 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 10
MO 51 S
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH NO.
S 3 T 27 N R 9 E, Stoddard, MO
Built 2002 Load: 99.9 t ADT: 1,598
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