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Anderson County, TX

176 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 57.4% rated Good, 42.6% Fair, 0% Poor.

176
Public bridges: 57.4%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 4%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 176
public highway bridges: 1978
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.

Anderson County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Anderson County ranks #9 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Anderson County, Texas contains 176 public highway bridges. Roughly 57.4% are rated “Good,” 42.6% “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

176

Public highway bridges in Anderson County

Good condition

57.4%

101 of 176 rated 7-9

Fair condition

42.6%

75 of 176 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 176 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#9 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 176 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

57.4% (101)

Fair

42.6% (75)

Poor

0% (0)

45.5% of Anderson County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

80 of the 176 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 57.4% 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

8
1930s

7
1940s

8
1950s

38
1960s

19
1970s

2
1980s

12
1990s

33
2000s

21
2010s

19
2020s

9

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 38 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Texas average (1980).

How Anderson County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Texas counties nearest Anderson 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 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Anderson County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Jasper County	179	44.7%	53.1%	2.2%	1973
Waller County	177	43.5%	55.4%	1.1%	1987
Atascosa County	176	61.4%	38.1%	0.6%	1970
Shelby County	176	49.4%	46%	4.5%	1986
Anderson County (this page)	176	57.4%	42.6%	0%	1978
Kerr County	174	59.8%	39.1%	1.1%	1968

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (176 bridges here).

Des Moines County, IA · 176 bridges
Perry County, KY · 176 bridges
Winston County, MS · 176 bridges
Paulding County, OH · 176 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1978 here).

Orange County, CA · avg 1978 · 1,164 bridges
Sumner County, KS · avg 1978 · 659 bridges
Allen County, IN · avg 1978 · 613 bridges
Livingston County, IL · avg 1978 · 579 bridges

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

All 176 Good 101 Fair 75 Poor 0

All bridges (176)

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Anderson County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

45.5% of Anderson County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Anderson County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (176)

FM 1817

CR 365 (Old Alcoa)

CR 1226

M L CARY ST

VARIAH RD

CR 489

FM 322

FM 2961

FM 3328

SH 19

FM 645

SH 19

FM 315

FM 2330

SH 294

SL 256

US 175

US 175

US 175

US 175

US 79 EB

US 79 WB

US 79 NB

US 79 SB

SL 256

SH 155

SH 155 SB

SH 155

SL 256 EB

SL 256 EB

SL 256

FM 19

FM 19

FM 19

FM 645

CR 116

CR 309

CR 355

CR 355

CR 370

CR 432

CR 453

CR 458

CR 458

CR 468

CR 468

CR 471

CR 482

CR 1206

CR 1231

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