Total bridges
21
Public highway bridges in Curry County
County profile · official public datasets
Curry County, NM
21 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 47.6% rated Good, 52.4% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 21
- Public bridges
- 47.6%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Curry County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 16%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 21
- public highway bridges
- 1984
- 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.
Curry County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Curry County ranks #5 of 32 New Mexico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Curry County, New Mexico contains 21 public highway bridges. Roughly 47.6% are rated “Good,” 52.4% “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.
Good condition
47.6%
10 of 21 rated 7-9
Fair condition
52.4%
11 of 21 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 21 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#5 of 32
Among New Mexico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 21 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 47.6% (10)
Fair 52.4% (11)
Poor 0% (0)
42.9% of Curry County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
9 of the 21 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 47.6% 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.
When Curry County's bridges were built
21 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1960s 1
1960–1969
1 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
9 bridges
- 1980s 3
1980–1989
3 bridges
- 1990s 2
1990–1999
2 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 9 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 42.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1984, 11 years newer than the New Mexico average of 1973.
How Curry County compares with New Mexico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 New Mexico counties nearest Curry County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1984 against a peer-group mean of 1965 is 19 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 31 New Mexico counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valencia County | 48 | 27.1% | 68.8% | 4.2% | 1977 |
| De Baca County | 24 | 8.3% | 91.7% | 0% | 1959 |
| Curry County (this page) | 21 | 47.6% | 52.4% | 0% | 1984 |
| Harding County | 13 | 53.8% | 46.2% | 0% | 1977 |
| Lea County | 10 | 10% | 90% | 0% | 1967 |
| Roosevelt County | 9 | 33.3% | 66.7% | 0% | 1947 |
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 Curry 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 Curry County, both outside New Mexico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside NM (21 bridges here).
- Clay County, GA · 21 bridges
- Lewis County, ID · 21 bridges
- Stanton County, KS · 21 bridges
- Montmorency County, MI · 21 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside NM (1984 here).
- Hennepin County, MN · avg 1984 · 936 bridges
- Duval County, FL · avg 1984 · 831 bridges
- El Paso County, CO · avg 1984 · 686 bridges
- Bell County, TX · avg 1984 · 660 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (10)
US-70 EBL and WBL
GoodOver: BNSF RAILROAD
0.2 M S JCT US-60/US-70, Curry, NM
Built 1989 Load: 21.1 t ADT: 9,171
NM-209
GoodOver: RUNNING WATER DRAW
9.0 MI N JCT US-70/CLOVIS, Curry, NM
Built 1978 Load: 29.7 t ADT: 4,961
NM-467
GoodOver: BNSF Railroad
.25 Mi S Of Jct. US 60/84, Curry, NM
Built 2007 Load: 31.8 t ADT: 2,727
NM-108
GoodOver: FRIO DRAW
18.1 M N JCT US-60/TEXICO, Curry, NM
Built 1967 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 160
US-60
GoodOver: UNNAMED WATERWAY
8.3 M E JCT NM267/MELROSE, Curry, NM
Built 1971 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 3,747
09-Z000
GoodOver: INGRAM DAM CHANNEL
0.5 MI E OF NORRIS ST., Curry, NM
Built 1999 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 199
NM-209
GoodOver: FRIO DRAW
19.4M N JCT US-60/CLOVIS, Curry, NM
Built 2015 Load: 41.3 t ADT: 1,089
FL-4282
GoodOver: BNSF Railroad
0.16 Mi S of US-60/84, Curry, NM
Built 2011 Load: 42.3 t ADT: 1,959
NM-108
GoodOver: RUNNING WATER DRAW
7.7 MI N JCT US-60/TEXICO, Curry, NM
Built 2020 Load: 67.1 t ADT: 302
E. 7th Ave.
GoodOver: Unnamed Channel
1.2 Mi E of N Prince Ave., Curry, NM
Built 2018 Load: 82.6 t ADT: 198
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