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Stewart County, TN

168 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 56.5% rated Good, 43.5% Fair, 0% Poor.

168
Public bridges: 56.5%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Stewart County posts a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 2%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 168
public highway bridges: 1977
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.

Stewart County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Stewart County ranks #2 of 95 Tennessee counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Stewart County, Tennessee contains 168 public highway bridges. Roughly 56.5% are rated “Good,” 43.5% “Fair,” and 0% “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

168

Public highway bridges in Stewart County

Good condition

56.5%

95 of 168 rated 7-9

Fair condition

43.5%

73 of 168 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 168 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#2 of 95

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

Condition distribution

Share of 168 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

56.5% (95)

Fair

43.5% (73)

Poor

0% (0)

41.1% of Stewart County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

69 of the 168 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 56.5% 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.

1920s

1
1930s

2
1940s

1
1950s

31
1960s

28
1970s

17
1980s

58
1990s

9
2000s

15
2010s

5
2020s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 58 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 34.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1977) matches the Tennessee average (1977).

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

The 5 Tennessee counties nearest Stewart County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1977 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Stewart County and the 5 Tennessee counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Anderson County	175	25.1%	71.4%	3.4%	1974
Macon County	169	69.8%	25.4%	4.7%	1983
Stewart County (this page)	168	56.5%	43.5%	0%	1977
Crockett County	167	44.9%	54.5%	0.6%	1985
Putnam County	167	50.9%	46.7%	2.4%	1976
Unicoi County	161	46%	49.1%	5%	1984

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TN (168 bridges here).

Wilcox County, AL · 168 bridges
Kings County, CA · 168 bridges
Carroll County, GA · 168 bridges
Clayton County, GA · 168 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TN (1977 here).

San Diego County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,632 bridges
King County, WA · avg 1977 · 1,238 bridges
Riverside County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,117 bridges
Contra Costa County, CA · avg 1977 · 618 bridges

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

All 168 Good 95 Fair 73 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (95)

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Stewart County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

41.1% of Stewart County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Stewart 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

Good-condition bridges (95)

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 100

LBL ROAD 230

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 206

LBL ROAD 205

LBL ROAD 230

LBL ROAD 230

LBL ROAD 230

LBL ROAD 230

NFA A010

NFA 1830 (SA 8105)

NFA A202

NFA A306

NFA A003

NFA 943 (SA 8101)

NFA 943 (SA 8101)

NFA 1793 (SA 8102)

FAS 46

MAIN LEVEE

MAIN LEVEE

S.CROSS CREEKS DAM

NFA A228

NFA 1799 (SA 8115)

FAS 461

NFA 1824

NFA 1824

NFA A467

NFA A467

NFA A010

NFA A021

NFA A021

NFA A012

NFA A012

NFA A012

NFA A012

NFA A003

NFA A022

NFA A028

NFA A030

NFA A030

NFA A030

NFA A129

NFA A119

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