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Archer County, TX

125 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 48% rated Good, 51.2% Fair, 0.8% Poor.

125
Public bridges: 48%
Good condition: 0.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Archer County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

125th
of 247 on Poor share: 0.8%
Poor-condition share: 125
public highway bridges: 1968
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.

Archer County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Archer County ranks #125 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.8%). Archer County, Texas contains 125 public highway bridges. Roughly 48% are rated “Good,” 51.2% “Fair,” and 0.8% “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

125

Public highway bridges in Archer County

Good condition

48%

60 of 125 rated 7-9

Fair condition

51.2%

64 of 125 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.8%

1 of 125 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#125 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 125 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

48% (60)

Fair

51.2% (64)

Poor

0.8% (1)

Archer County's Poor-condition bridges carry 437 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 437 crossings a day against 1,092 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.

Computed over the 125 of 125 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

58.4% of Archer County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

73 of the 125 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 48% 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.

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

SH 25 over MID FRK LIT WICHITA RIV, built 1938, carries 437 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 437 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

26
1930s

15
1940s

6
1950s

10
1960s

15
1970s

4
1980s

3
1990s

10
2000s

22
2010s

7
2020s

7

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1920s, when 26 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 95 to 104 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1968, 12 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Archer County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.8% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1968 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is 6 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Archer County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Goliad County	126	57.1%	41.3%	1.6%	1976
Archer County (this page)	125	48%	51.2%	0.8%	1968
Willacy County	124	51.6%	48.4%	0%	1989
Burleson County	122	50%	46.7%	3.3%	1974
Maverick County	122	57.4%	41.8%	0.8%	1975
Duval County	121	46.3%	52.9%	0.8%	1955

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (125 bridges here).

Hoonah-Angoon County, AK · 125 bridges
Tuolumne County, CA · 125 bridges
Worth County, GA · 125 bridges
Stone County, MS · 125 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1968 here).

Montgomery County, PA · avg 1968 · 828 bridges
San Joaquin County, CA · avg 1968 · 644 bridges
Providence County, RI · avg 1968 · 476 bridges
Imperial County, CA · avg 1968 · 444 bridges

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

All 125 Good 60 Fair 64 Poor 1

All bridges (125)

Sort:

FM 422

Fair

Over: KICKAPOO CREEK

2.0 MI W OF FM 210, Archer, TX

Built 1960 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 114

FM 2846

Fair

Over: IRRIGATION CANAL

4.6 MI N OF US 277, Archer, TX

Built 1966 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 68

SH 25

Fair

Over: HOLLIDAY CREEK

2.8 MI S OF US 277, Archer, TX

Built 1938 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 450

US 281

Fair

Over: LAKE CREEK

4.1 MI S OF FM 1954, Archer, TX

Built 1929 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 4,328

FM 172

Fair

Over: LITTLE POST OAK CREEK

2.0 MI E OF US 281, Archer, TX

Built 1966 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 788

FM 2581

Fair

Over: ONION CREEK

3.35 MI S OF SH 25, Archer, TX

Built 1961 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 120

FM 2650

Fair

Over: DRAW

1.0 MI N OF FM 1954, Archer, TX

Built 1962 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 2,069

SH 25

Fair

Over: SOUTH SIDE IRRIG.CANAL

1.8 MI S OF SH 258, Archer, TX

Built 1938 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 325

SH 25

Fair

Over: S.FK. LITTLE WICHITA RIV

1.8 MI W OF SH 79, Archer, TX

Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 762

US 277 NBML & FR

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.3 MI E OF FM 368, Archer, TX

Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,876

CR 117/MCMURTRY RD

Fair

Over: W FK OF TRINTY RIVER

1.00 MI N OF PRIDEAUX RD, Archer, TX

Built 2005 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 10

SH 16

Fair

Over: W FRK TRINITY RIVER

2.75 MI S OF US 281, Archer, TX

Built 1947 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 1,013

SH 16

Fair

Over: BRUSHY CREEK

6.0 MI S OF US 281, Archer, TX

Built 1947 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 1,303

CR 261/ RIVER RD

Fair

Over: N FK LITTLE WICHITA RI

6.30 MI S OF FM 368, Archer, TX

Archer County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Archer County's Poor-condition bridges carry 437 vehicle crossings a day

58.4% of Archer County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Archer 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 (125)

FM 422

FM 2846

SH 25

US 281

FM 172

FM 2581

FM 2650

SH 25

SH 25

US 277 NBML & FR

CR 117/MCMURTRY RD

SH 16

SH 16

CR 261/ RIVER RD

CR 162/ GILMORE RD

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

FM 368

FM 1954

FM 2178

FM 2581

FM 2581

FM 2581

FM 2846

FM 440

FM 440

CR 282/ DECKER RD

CR 282/ DECKER RD

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

SH 25

US 82/277

US 82/277

US 82/277

BU 82F

BU 82F

US 277NB/US 82 EB

US 277SB/US 82 WB

US 277 NBFR

US 277 ML & SBFR

US 277 SBML&FR

US 277 NB

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