Total bridges
67
Public highway bridges in Bandera County
County profile · official public datasets
Bandera County, TX
67 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 59.7% rated Good, 38.8% Fair, 1.5% Poor.
- 67
- Public bridges
- 59.7%
- Good condition
- 1.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bandera 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.
- 160th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 67
- public highway bridges
- 1972
- 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.
Bandera County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bandera County ranks #160 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.5%). Bandera County, Texas contains 67 public highway bridges. Roughly 59.7% are rated “Good,” 38.8% “Fair,” and 1.5% “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
59.7%
40 of 67 rated 7-9
Fair condition
38.8%
26 of 67 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.5%
1 of 67 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#160 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 67 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 59.7% (40)
Fair 38.8% (26)
Poor 1.5% (1)
Bandera County's Poor-condition bridges carry 145 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 145 crossings a day against 3,567 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 67 of 67 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
53.7% of Bandera County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
36 of the 67 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 59.7% 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
PATTERSON STREET over MEDINA RIVER, built 1940, carries 145 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 145 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bandera County's bridges were built
67 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 4
1930–1939
4 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
6 bridges
- 1950s 5
1950–1959
5 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
15 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
11 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
15 bridges
- 1990s 1
1990–1999
1 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
8 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 15 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 8 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Bandera County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Bandera County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.5% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1972 against a peer-group mean of 1967 is 5 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris County | 70 | 30% | 70% | 0% | 1971 |
| Swisher County | 69 | 39.1% | 60.9% | 0% | 1975 |
| Donley County | 68 | 44.1% | 48.5% | 7.4% | 1957 |
| Mills County | 68 | 48.5% | 48.5% | 2.9% | 1958 |
| Bandera County (this page) | 67 | 59.7% | 38.8% | 1.5% | 1972 |
| Collingsworth County | 65 | 47.7% | 47.7% | 4.6% | 1974 |
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 Bandera 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 Bandera County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (67 bridges here).
- Okeechobee County, FL · 67 bridges
- Stephens County, GA · 67 bridges
- Garrard County, KY · 67 bridges
- Emmons County, ND · 67 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1972 here).
- Santa Clara County, CA · avg 1972 · 964 bridges
- Madison County, AL · avg 1972 · 710 bridges
- Kern County, CA · avg 1972 · 668 bridges
- York County, PA · avg 1972 · 569 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (26)
CR 556 PEACEFUL VA
FairOver: MEDINA RIVER
0.5 MILE NORTH OF S.H. 16, Bandera, TX
Built 1924 Load: 11.8 t ADT: 141
FM 337
FairOver: SABINAL RIVER
0.1 MI E OF FM 187, Bandera, TX
Built 1980 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 716
SH 16
FairOver: MEDINA RIVER
1.3 MI NW OF FM 337, Bandera, TX
Built 1947 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,695
SH 16
FairOver: DRAW
1.0 MI W OF SH 173, Bandera, TX
Built 1936 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 5,976
SH 16
FairOver: DREAN CREEK
2.3 MI NE OF SH 173, Bandera, TX
Built 1936 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 11,033
SH 16
FairOver: DRAW
1.74 MI W OF FM 1283, Bandera, TX
Built 1982 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 9,987
SH 16
FairOver: DRAW
2.8 MI W OF FM 1283, Bandera, TX
Built 1982 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 9,987
FM 470
FairOver: INDIAN CREEK
2.55 MI SW OF SH 16, Bandera, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,878
FM 2828
FairOver: BANDERA CREEK
1.3 MI SW OF SH 173, Bandera, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,373
FM 2828
FairOver: DRAW
0.3 MI SW OF FM 3240, Bandera, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,221
PR 37
FairOver: DRAW
3.6 MI NE OF FM 1283, Bandera, TX
Built 1988 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,410
PR 37
FairOver: DRAW
2.7 MI NE OF FM 1283, Bandera, TX
Built 1988 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,410
PR 37
FairOver: DRAW
1.2 MI NE OF FM 1283, Bandera, TX
Built 1988 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,410
CR 236
FairOver: NORTH PRONG MEDINA RIVER
3.8 Mi W of FM 2107 Pvmt., Bandera, TX
Built 1947 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 20
ENGLISHCROSSING RD
FairOver: MEDINA RIVER
1.3 MILE WEST OF FM. 1283, Bandera, TX
Built 1980 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 973
B. C. Y. CAMP ROAD
FairOver: MEDINA RIVER
0.05 MILE EAST OF S.H. 16, Bandera, TX
Built 1979 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
FM 470
FairOver: MEDINA RIVER
0.1 MI W OF SH 16, Bandera, TX
Built 1957 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 1,878
FM 337
FairOver: MEDINA RIVER
0.3 MI W OF SH 16, Bandera, TX
Built 1957 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 1,603
SH 46
FairOver: RED BLUFF CREEK
2.1 MI NE OF SH 16, Bandera, TX
Built 1967 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 6,378
SH 173
FairOver: SAN JULIAN CREEK
2.21 MI S OF SH 16, Bandera, TX
Built 1956 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 1,900
FM 1283
FairOver: RED BLUFF CREEK
3.98 MI S OF SH 16, Bandera, TX
Built 1959 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 3,305
SH 16
FairOver: PRIVILEGE CREEK
5.0 MI E OF SH 173, Bandera, TX
Built 1978 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 8,378
HEISLER ROAD
FairOver: RED BLUFF CREEK
1.0 MI E OF FM 1283, Bandera, TX
Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 246
SOUTH GOAT RIDGE R
FairOver: BEAR CREEK
0.2 MI SE OF BEAR CRK RD, Bandera, TX
Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 185
SH 173
FairOver: BANDERA CREEK
1.5 MI N OF FM 3240, Bandera, TX
Built 1963 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 7,250
SH 16
FairOver: RED BLUFF CREEK
1.1 MI SE OF SH 46, Bandera, TX
Built 1936 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 5,434
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