Total bridges
167
Public highway bridges in Crockett County
County profile · official public datasets
Crockett County, TN
167 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 44.9% rated Good, 54.5% Fair, 0.6% Poor.
- 167
- Public bridges
- 44.9%
- Good condition
- 0.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Crockett County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 5%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 167
- public highway bridges
- 1985
- 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.
Crockett County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Crockett County ranks #5 of 95 Tennessee counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.6%). Crockett County, Tennessee contains 167 public highway bridges. Roughly 44.9% are rated “Good,” 54.5% “Fair,” and 0.6% “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
44.9%
75 of 167 rated 7-9
Fair condition
54.5%
91 of 167 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.6%
1 of 167 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#5 of 95
Among Tennessee counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 167 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 44.9% (75)
Fair 54.5% (91)
Poor 0.6% (1)
Crockett County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,582 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,582 crossings a day against 1,734 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 167 of 167 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
28.1% of Crockett County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
47 of the 167 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 44.9% 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
FAP 76 over DRAINAGE DITCH, built 1930, carries 3,582 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 3,582 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Crockett County's bridges were built
167 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 6
1930–1939
6 bridges
- 1940s 8
1940–1949
8 bridges
- 1950s 9
1950–1959
9 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
20 bridges
- 1970s 5
1970–1979
5 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
31 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
50 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
22 bridges
- 2010s 14
2010–2019
14 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 50 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1985, 8 years newer than the Tennessee average of 1977.
How Crockett County compares with Tennessee's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Tennessee counties nearest Crockett County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.6% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1985 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is 6 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 94 Tennessee counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macon County | 169 | 69.8% | 25.4% | 4.7% | 1983 |
| Stewart County | 168 | 56.5% | 43.5% | 0% | 1977 |
| Putnam County | 167 | 50.9% | 46.7% | 2.4% | 1976 |
| Crockett County (this page) | 167 | 44.9% | 54.5% | 0.6% | 1985 |
| Unicoi County | 161 | 46% | 49.1% | 5% | 1984 |
| Warren County | 160 | 48.1% | 48.1% | 3.8% | 1976 |
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 Crockett 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 Crockett County, both outside Tennessee so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TN (167 bridges here).
- Cherokee County, AL · 167 bridges
- Garfield County, CO · 167 bridges
- Mitchell County, IA · 167 bridges
- Ness County, KS · 167 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TN (1985 here).
- Hillsborough County, FL · avg 1985 · 840 bridges
- Lancaster County, NE · avg 1985 · 661 bridges
- Nueces County, TX · avg 1985 · 528 bridges
- Grayson County, TX · avg 1985 · 513 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (167)
FAP 20
GoodOver: BRANCH
0.9 MI NW JCT SR20&SR188, Crockett, TN
Built 1995 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 12,706
FAP 20
GoodOver: BRANCH
1.1 MI SE JCT SR20&SR188, Crockett, TN
Built 1995 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 12,706
FAP 20
GoodOver: BRANCH
1.4 MI NW JCT SR20&SR76, Crockett, TN
Built 1993 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 14,935
FAP 20
GoodOver: BRANCH
1.2 MI SW JCT SR88&SR221, Crockett, TN
Built 1995 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 13,208
FAS 54
GoodOver: BRANCH
0.3 MI E JCT SR20 & SR54, Crockett, TN
Built 1996 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 3,925
FAS 88
GoodOver: BRANCH
2.8 MI.E.OF LAUDERDALE CO, Crockett, TN
Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,037
FAS 88
GoodOver: BEAR CREEK
3.9 MI.E.OF LAUDERDALE CO, Crockett, TN
Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,037
FAS 88
GoodOver: BRANCH
IN MAURY CITY, Crockett, TN
Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,567
FAS 88
GoodOver: BRANCH
NE OF BELLS CITY, Crockett, TN
Built 2003 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,401
FAS 88
GoodOver: BRANCH
2.6 MI W JCT SR88&SR189, Crockett, TN
Built 2004 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,037
FAS 152
GoodOver: BRANCH
SR 152, Crockett, TN
Built 1998 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,661
FAS 188
GoodOver: BRANCH
1.5 MI NW JCT SR20&SR54, Crockett, TN
Built 1995 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,090
NFA A188
GoodOver: BRANCH OF CYPRESS CREEK
4 MI W OF SR76, Crockett, TN
Built 1964 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 250
NFA 1572 (SA 1701)
GoodOver: BRANCH FORKED DEER RIVER
2 MI W OF SR54, Crockett, TN
Built 2005 Load: 40.2 t ADT: 464
NFA 1572 (SA 1701)
GoodOver: KAIL CREEK
3 MI N OF HAYWOOD CO., Crockett, TN
Built 2005 Load: 41.8 t ADT: 798
NFA A236
GoodOver: CONNLEY CREEK
0.5 MI W OF MADISON CO., Crockett, TN
Built 2022 Load: 43.1 t ADT: 110
FAP 76
PoorOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
2.6 MI.SW.OF GADSDEN, Crockett, TN
Built 1930 Load: 8.7 t ADT: 3,582
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