Mississippi Website Statistics

All Bridges

  • Total listed Mississippi bridges: 436
  • Bridges with photos: 190 (43.6%)
  • Bridges with Street View: 164 (37.6%)
  • Bridges with GPS coordinates: 390 (89.4%)

  • Total photos: 1,045

Extant Bridges

  • Extant bridges: 313 (71.8% of all)
  • Bridges with photos: 172 (55.0% of extant)
  • Bridges with Street View: 156 (49.8% of extant)
  • Bridges with GPS coordinates: 311 (99.4% of extant)

Lost Bridges

  • Lost bridges: 113 (25.9% of all)
  • Bridges with photos: 15 (13.3% of lost)
  • Bridges with GPS coordinates: 71 (62.8% of lost)

Oldest Listed Bridges

  1. Fairground Street Bridge (Warren County, built 1895, abandoned)
  2. Tibbee Bridge (Clay County, built 1896, abandoned)
  3. Stuckey's Bridge (Lauderdale County, built 1901, closed to all traffic)
  4. Elam Creek Bridge (Alcorn County, built 1901, open to traffic)
  5. Abandoned Leaf River GM&N Railroad Bridge (Perry County, built 1902, abandoned)
  6. Mahned Bridge (Perry County, built 1903, abandoned)
  7. Confederate Avenue Steel Bridge (Warren County, built 1903, lost)
  8. Veto Road Bridge (Franklin County, built 1903, open to traffic)
  9. Union Avenue Bridge #5 (Warren County, built 1904, open to traffic)
  10. Union Avenue Bridge #4 (Warren County, built 1904, open to traffic)

By Design

  • Arch: 21 (4.8%)
    • Deck arch: 19 (4.4%)
      • Closed-spandrel arch: 7 (1.6%)
      • Open-spandrel arch: 2 (0.5%)
      • Steel arch: 1 (0.2%)

  • Beam: 131 (30.0%)
    • Stringer: 110 (25.2%)
      • Concrete stringer: 5 (1.1%)
      • Steel stringer: 75 (17.2%)
      • Timber stringer: 14 (3.2%)
    • Concrete tee beam: 18 (4.1%)

  • Culvert: 2 (0.5%)
    • Concrete culvert: 2 (0.5%)

  • Rigid frame: 6 (1.4%)
    • Concrete rigid frame: 5 (1.1%)

  • Girder: 16 (3.7%)
    • Deck girder: 6 (1.4%)
      • Concrete deck girder: 1 (0.2%)
      • Deck plate girder: 3 (0.7%)
    • Pony/through girder: 5 (1.1%)
      • Concrete pony/through girder: 1 (0.2%)
      • Pony/through plate girder: 4 (0.9%)

  • Other: 10 (2.3%)

  • Slab: 7 (1.6%)

  • Suspension: 6 (1.4%)
    • Wire suspension: 5 (1.1%)

  • Truss: 228 (52.3%)
    • Deck truss: 6 (1.4%)
    • Pony truss: 108 (24.8%)
      • Kingpost pony truss: 1 (0.2%)
      • Polygonal Warren pony truss: 4 (0.9%)
        • Polygonal Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 3 (0.7%)
      • Pratt pony truss: 5 (1.1%)
      • Half-hip Pratt pony truss: 2 (0.5%)
      • Warren pony truss: 15 (3.4%)
        • Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 1 (0.2%)
    • Through truss: 113 (25.9%)
      • Baltimore through truss: 1 (0.2%)
      • Camelback through truss: 9 (2.1%)
      • Parker through truss: 19 (4.4%)
      • Pennsylvania through truss: 4 (0.9%)
      • Polygonal Warren through truss: 3 (0.7%)
        • Polygonal Warren through truss with all verticals: 1 (0.2%)
      • Pratt through truss: 32 (7.3%)
      • Stearns through truss: 1 (0.2%)
      • Warren through truss: 13 (3.0%)
        • Warren through truss with all verticals: 2 (0.5%)

    • Tunnel: 1 (0.2%)

    • Unknown: 8 (1.8%)