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Railroad Street over Driver Creek

Lamar County, Alabama · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

Railroad Street over Driver Creek in Lamar County, Alabama, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1900, making it 125 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 15 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2007).
Its listed owner is a city or municipal highway agency.
It is one of 5 of the 180 inventoried bridges in Lamar County rated poor (2.8%); 5 (2.8%) are rated poor.
A poor rating means at least one major component - deck, superstructure, or substructure - is rated 4 or lower on FHWA's 0-9 scale. It does not by itself mean the bridge is unsafe; bridges judged unsafe are closed or load-restricted by their owners.

Component ratings


Structure	Continuous steel through truss
Length	about 50 ft
Location	0.5 Mi E SR#17
NBI structure number	000005
Condition class	Poor

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the Alabama department of transportation.

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Al-17 over Branch	1930	5,574	Fair
Al-18 over Branch	1939	5,046	Fair
Al-118 over Bogue Creek	1928	4,850	Fair
Al-118 over Bogue Creek Relief	1928	4,271	Fair
Al-118 over Turkey Creek	2001	4,271	Fair
Al-18 over Yellow Creek Relief	1979	3,590	Fair