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Maury County, TN

424 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 22.9% rated Good, 70.8% Fair, 6.4% Poor.

424
Public bridges: 22.9%
Good condition: 6.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Maury County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

77th
of 95 on Poor share: 6.4%
Poor-condition share: 424
public highway bridges: 1975
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.

Maury County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Maury County ranks #77 of 95 Tennessee counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.4%). Maury County, Tennessee contains 424 public highway bridges. Roughly 22.9% are rated “Good,” 70.8% “Fair,” and 6.4% “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

424

Public highway bridges in Maury County

Good condition

22.9%

97 of 424 rated 7-9

Fair condition

70.8%

300 of 424 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.4%

27 of 424 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#77 of 95

Among Tennessee counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 424 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

22.9% (97)

Fair

70.8% (300)

Poor

6.4% (27)

Maury County's Poor-condition bridges carry 14,097 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 522 crossings a day against 4,918 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 424 of 424 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

42.9% of Maury County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

182 of the 424 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 22.9% 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 41.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

FAU 3194 350583D over TENNESSEE SOUTHERN RR, built 1966, carries 5,803 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 27-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 14,097 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

3
1920s

14
1930s

25
1940s

39
1950s

30
1960s

59
1970s

38
1980s

95
1990s

51
2000s

31
2010s

29
2020s

10

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 95 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Tennessee average (1977).

How Maury County compares with Tennessee's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Tennessee counties nearest Maury County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.4% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 94 Tennessee counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Maury County and the 5 Tennessee counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Rutherford County	428	60.3%	35.5%	4.2%	1977
Maury County (this page)	424	22.9%	70.8%	6.4%	1975
Madison County	418	31.8%	64.1%	4.1%	1983
Wilson County	402	60.7%	31.1%	8.2%	1972
Sumner County	398	69.1%	26.4%	4.5%	1976
Gibson County	386	32.9%	62.4%	4.7%	1987

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 Maury 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 Maury County, both outside Tennessee so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TN (424 bridges here).

Caddo County, OK · 424 bridges
Fayette County, PA · 422 bridges
Smith County, TX · 427 bridges
Siskiyou County, CA · 421 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TN (1975 here).

San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 424 Good 97 Fair 300 Poor 27

Poor-condition bridges (27)

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Maury County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Maury County's Poor-condition bridges carry 14,097 vehicle crossings a day

42.9% of Maury County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 41.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Maury County compares with Tennessee's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Poor-condition bridges (27)

NFA 1905 350647M

NFA A358

NFA A408

FAS 247

NFA 970

FAU 4624

NFA B023

NFA 2733 350710C

NFA 2733

NFA A326

NFA B021

NFA 1905

NFA A163

NFA 1905

NFA 1897 (SA 6016)

NFA 1916 (SA 6010)

NFA A189

NFA A381

NFA A412

NFA A424

FAU 3194 350583D

NFA 1920 (SA 6006)

NFA A326

NFA 2733

NFA A177

FAS 247

NFA B625

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