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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.

When Archer County's bridges were built

125 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

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.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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 Poor
Goliad County 126 1.6%
Archer County (this page) 125 0.8%
Willacy County 124 0%
Burleson County 122 3.3%
Maverick County 122 0.8%
Duval County 121 0.8%

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).

Similar average build year

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

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)

US 277 SB

Good

Over: BU 277

1.6 MI E OF FM 368, Archer, TX

Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 6,511

US 281

Good

Over: LITTLE WICHITA RIVER

1.9 MI N OF FM 172, Archer, TX

Built 1998 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,328

FM 1954

Good

Over: DRAW

1.1 MI E OF FM 2650, Archer, TX

Built 1998 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,730

FM 1954

Good

Over: HOLLIDAY CREEK

1.5 MI E OF FM 368, Archer, TX

Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 532

FM 1954

Good

Over: PANTHER CREEK

1.8 MI E OF FM 368, Archer, TX

Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 532

CR 107 / WELLS RD

Good

Over: HOLLIDAY CREEK

0.65 MI N OF FM 440, Archer, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 270

CR 156 / HARMEL RD

Good

Over: DRAW

0.30 MI W OF FM 210, Archer, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30

CR 156 / HARMEL RD

Good

Over: WAGON BR

1.30 MI W OF FM 210, Archer, TX

Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20

CR 161 / KINCY RD

Good

Over: S FK LITTLE WICHITA RI

1.15 MI W OF FM 2178, Archer, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10

CR 161 / SPAIN RD

Good

Over: S FK LITTLE WICHITA RI

2.10 MI W OF FM 2178, Archer, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30

CR 161 / KINCY RD

Good

Over: DRAW

3.05 MI NW OF FM 2178, Archer, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30

CR 166 / RIVER RD

Good

Over: S FK LITTLE WICHITA RI

2.10 MI NW OF SH 25, Archer, TX

Built 1995 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10

CR 166 / SEAY RD

Good

Over: MDL FK LITTLE WICHITA RI

0.75 MI N OF FM 210, Archer, TX

Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10

CR189/ TERRAPIN RD

Good

Over: MESQUITE CREEK

0.90 MI W OF FM 2178, Archer, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CR199/ FALLS CO RD

Good

Over: DRAW

3.35 MI W OF SH 79, Archer, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30

CR199/ FALLS CO RD

Good

Over: MESQUITE CREEK

7.00 MI W OF SH 79, Archer, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30

N PARKEY RNCH RD

Good

Over: SLIPPERY CREEK

4.70 MI S OF US 82, Archer, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10

WILSON RANCH RD

Good

Over: HOLLIDAY CREEK

2.55 MI. SW of SH 25, Archer, TX

Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10

CONTINENTAL RD

Good

Over: S SIDE IRRIGATION CANAL

1.90 MI E OF FM 2846, Archer, TX

Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20

CR 246/ BRITTON LN

Good

Over: DRAW

0.35 MI S OF US 82, Archer, TX

Built 2018 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CR 261 / RIVER RD

Good

Over: DRAW

5.50 MI S OF FM 368, Archer, TX

Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 13

CR 328/ S LAKE RD

Good

Over: N FK LITTLE WICHITA RI

1.40 MI S OF FM 368, Archer, TX

Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 110

FM 368

Good

Over: HOLLIDAY CREEK

2.5 MI S OF US 277, Archer, TX

Built 1950 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 426

FM 1180

Good

Over: WICHITA RIVER

1.2 MI S WICHITA CO LINE, Archer, TX

Built 1979 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 36

SH 25

Poor

Over: MID FRK LIT WICHITA RIV

1.5 MI N OF FM 210, Archer, TX

Built 1938 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 437

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