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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.

Total bridges

434

Public highway bridges in Stoddard County

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.

1900s

3
1920s

26
1930s

28
1940s

19
1950s

56
1960s

47
1970s

48
1980s

36
1990s

67
2000s

47
2010s

51
2020s

6

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.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Stoddard County and the 5 Missouri counties closest to it in inventory size
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.

All 434 Good 187 Fair 231 Poor 16

All bridges (434)

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Stoddard County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Stoddard County's Poor-condition bridges carry 9,482 vehicle crossings a day

49.1% of Stoddard County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 27.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Stoddard County compares with Missouri's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (434)

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