Total bridges
82
Public highway bridges in Jones County
County profile · official public datasets
Jones County, NC
82 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 51.2% rated Good, 47.6% Fair, 1.2% Poor.
- 82
- Public bridges
- 51.2%
- Good condition
- 1.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Jones County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 8%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 1.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 82
- public highway bridges
- 1996
- 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.
Jones County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Jones County ranks #8 of 100 North Carolina counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.2%). Jones County, North Carolina contains 82 public highway bridges. Roughly 51.2% are rated “Good,” 47.6% “Fair,” and 1.2% “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
51.2%
42 of 82 rated 7-9
Fair condition
47.6%
39 of 82 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.2%
1 of 82 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#8 of 100
Among North Carolina counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 82 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 51.2% (42)
Fair 47.6% (39)
Poor 1.2% (1)
Jones County's Poor-condition bridges carry 100 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 100 crossings a day against 2,868 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 82 of 82 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
26.8% of Jones County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
22 of the 82 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 51.2% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SR1155 over JOSHUA BRANCH, built 1968, carries 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 100 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Jones County's bridges were built
82 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1950s 5
1950–1959
5 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
11 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
8 bridges
- 1980s 4
1980–1989
4 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
11 bridges
- 2000s 7
2000–2009
7 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
17 bridges
- 2020s
2020–2029
18 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2020s, when 18 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22% of those with a recorded year. Those records fall in the current decade of the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1996, 10 years newer than the North Carolina average of 1986.
How Jones County compares with North Carolina's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 North Carolina counties nearest Jones County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.2% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1996 against a peer-group mean of 1988 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 99 North Carolina counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caswell County | 90 | 58.9% | 35.6% | 5.6% | 1991 |
| Warren County | 84 | 47.6% | 47.6% | 4.8% | 1985 |
| Northampton County | 83 | 31.3% | 65.1% | 3.6% | 1981 |
| Jones County (this page) | 82 | 51.2% | 47.6% | 1.2% | 1996 |
| Hyde County | 75 | 44% | 49.3% | 6.7% | 1998 |
| Vance County | 75 | 37.3% | 56% | 6.7% | 1983 |
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 Jones 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 Jones County, both outside North Carolina so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NC (82 bridges here).
- Murray County, GA · 82 bridges
- Gallatin County, IL · 82 bridges
- Thomas County, KS · 82 bridges
- Nicholas County, KY · 82 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NC (1996 here).
- Clark County, NV · avg 1996 · 1,141 bridges
- Hamilton County, IN · avg 1996 · 454 bridges
- Hays County, TX · avg 1996 · 272 bridges
- Jackson County, MS · avg 1996 · 268 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (82)
SR1303
FairOver: VINE SWAMP
0.6 MI.S.OF JCT.SR1305, Jones, NC
Built 1975 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 510
SR1148
FairOver: BEAVERDAM CREEK
0.3 MI.N. OF JCT.SR1147, Jones, NC
Built 1972 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 700
SR1153
FairOver: TRENT RIVER
0.1 MI.N.OF JCT.SR1130, Jones, NC
Built 1973 Load: 19.9 t ADT: 650
SR1114
FairOver: LITTLE HELL CREEK
2.1 MI.W.JCT.US17, Jones, NC
Built 1962 Load: 19.9 t ADT: 300
SR1147
FairOver: TUCKAHOE SWAMP
1.6 MI.W.JCT.SR1146, Jones, NC
Built 1967 Load: 19.9 t ADT: 110
NFSR 129
FairOver: BLACK SWAMP CREEK
NATIONAL FOREST ROAD, Jones, NC
Built 1974 Load: 20.4 t ADT: 50
SR1119
FairOver: BEAVERDAM BRANCH
1.5 MI W. OF JCT.NC58, Jones, NC
Built 1974 Load: 20.8 t ADT: 1,400
NFSR 134
FairOver: HOLSTONS CREEK
NATIONAL FOREST ROAD, Jones, NC
Built 1977 Load: 21.4 t ADT: 50
SR1159
FairOver: BIG CHINQUAPIN BRANCH
0.1 MI.S.OF JCT.NC58, Jones, NC
Built 1966 Load: 22.6 t ADT: 70
NFSR 128
FairOver: PETTIFORD CREEK
NATIONAL FOREST ROAD, Jones, NC
Built 1938 Load: 23.0 t ADT: 50
US70
FairOver: TRACY SWAMP
1.0 MI W OF JCT.SR1313, Jones, NC
Built 1964 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 11,000
NC58
FairOver: TRENT RIVER
1.0 MI.W.JCT.NC41, Jones, NC
Built 1955 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 3,200
NC41
FairOver: TRENT RIVER
0.1 MI.W. JCT.SR1322, Jones, NC
Built 1958 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 2,900
SR1300
FairOver: TRENT RIVER
0.5 MI.E.JCT.SR1129, Jones, NC
Built 1971 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 350
US258
FairOver: TUCKAHOE SWAMP
0.7 MI N JCT NC41, Jones, NC
Built 1950 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 5,400
US258
FairOver: GREAT BRANCH
1.0 MI N. OF JCT NC41, Jones, NC
Built 1960 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 5,100
NC58
FairOver: BR OF WHITE OAK RIVER
2.0 MI S. JCT US17, Jones, NC
Built 1960 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 4,700
US70
FairOver: CORE CREEK
3.3MI.W. OF NC41, Jones, NC
Built 1962 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 13,000
NC58
FairOver: HOLSTON CREEK
4.6 MI S OF JCT SR1105, Jones, NC
Built 1992 Load: 33.5 t ADT: 3,300
NC58
FairOver: Little Hell Creek
2.1 MI NW JCT US 17, Jones, NC
Built 1965 Load: 36.2 t ADT: 3,400
NC58
FairOver: CROOKED RUN
0.29 MI S. OF JCT NC41, Jones, NC
Built 1960 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 3,800
SR1121
FairOver: TRENT RIVER
2.9 MI. E. JCT. NC58, Jones, NC
Built 1993 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 850
US17 NC58
FairOver: TRENT RIVER
0.9 MI.N. OF JCT.NC58, Jones, NC
Built 1959 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 11,000
SR1131
FairOver: LITTLE CHINQUAPIN CR.
0.2 MI S. JCT SR1130, Jones, NC
Built 1992 Load: 42.6 t ADT: 210
SR1130
FairOver: TRENT RIVER
0.5 MI W. OF JCT. SR1156, Jones, NC
Built 1952 Load: 43.5 t ADT: 400
SR1134
FairOver: CYPRESS CREEK
0.7 MI. E. JCT. SR 1003, Jones, NC
Built 2013 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 1,100
SR1316
FairOver: BEAVER CREEK
0.5 MI. N. JCT. SR1300, Jones, NC
Built 1995 Load: 47.1 t ADT: 100
SR1129
FairOver: CHINQUAPIN BRANCH
0.9 MI N. JCT NC 58, Jones, NC
Built 2007 Load: 48.0 t ADT: 210
NC58
FairOver: MILL RUN CREEK
3.4 MI.N. JCT.US17, Jones, NC
Built 1965 Load: 49.8 t ADT: 3,400
SR1116
FairOver: GREAT CREEK
3.9 MI.W.JCT.SR1115, Jones, NC
Built 1982 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 1,300
US17N.BYP
FairOver: TRENT RIVER
1.35 MI N JCT NC58, Jones, NC
Built 2023 Load: 51.7 t ADT: 5,250
SR1131
FairOver: LITTLE CHINQUAPIN BRANCH
0.6 MI. N.JCT. SR 1132, Jones, NC
Built 2002 Load: 54.4 t ADT: 210
NC58
FairOver: BLACK SWAMP CREEK
1.0 MI.S. OF JCT.SR1105, Jones, NC
Built 1993 Load: 57.1 t ADT: 5,300
SR1146
FairOver: TUCKAHOE SWAMP
0.1.MI.N. OF JCT.SR1147, Jones, NC
Built 1989 Load: 58.0 t ADT: 260
SR1108
FairOver: GOSHEN BRANCH
0.9 MI.E. OF JCT.US17, Jones, NC
Built 1990 Load: 61.6 t ADT: 340
SR1150
FairOver: JOSHUA BRANCH
0.8 MI. E. JCT. US 258, Jones, NC
Built 1988 Load: 77.1 t ADT: 510
SR1146
FairOver: TUCKAHOE SWAMP
0.15 MI. N. JCT. SR1147, Jones, NC
Built 1985 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 300
SR1105
FairOver: BR. OF BLACK SWAMP CR
4.5 MI.E. OF JCT.NC58, Jones, NC
Built 1991 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 360
SR1337
FairOver: GOSHEN BRANCH
1.0 MI. W. OF JCT. US17, Jones, NC
Built 1994 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 760
SR1129
GoodOver: TRENT RIVER
1.2 MI. N. OF JCT. NC41, Jones, NC
Built 1977 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 500
NC41
GoodOver: JACK CABIN BRANCH
0.3 MI. E. JCT. SR1134, Jones, NC
Built 2023 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 2,100
SR1002
GoodOver: FLAT SWAMP
0.7 MI N. JCT. SR1306, Jones, NC
Built 2023 Load: 32.6 t ADT: 850
SR1100
GoodOver: HUNTER CREEK
1.0 MI.S. OF JCT.NC58, Jones, NC
Built 1993 Load: 37.1 t ADT: 200
SR1305
GoodOver: BR.OF BEAVER CREEK
0.3 MI.E.JCT.SR1303, Jones, NC
Built 2011 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 150
SR1315
GoodOver: BEAVER CREEK
0.7 MI.N. JCT. SR1300, Jones, NC
Built 2012 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 100
SR1305
GoodOver: RATTLE SNAKE BRANCH
0.5 MI.S.JCT.SR1002, Jones, NC
Built 2003 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 120
SR1004
GoodOver: ISLAND CREEK
5.0 MI.E.JCT.SR1110, Jones, NC
Built 2013 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 1,900
SR1142
GoodOver: TUCKAHOE SWAMP
1.8 MI. N. OF JCT. NC41, Jones, NC
Built 2019 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 300
US17S NC58S
GoodOver: WILDLIFE CROSSING
2.3 MI. S. JCT. SR1114, Jones, NC
Built 2017 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 6,500
US17N NC58N
GoodOver: WILDLIFE CROSSING
2.5 MI N JCT SR1116, Jones, NC
Built 2017 Load: 41.7 t ADT: 6,000
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