Total bridges
282
Public highway bridges in Bastrop County
County profile · official public datasets
Bastrop County, TX
282 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 66.3% rated Good, 33.3% Fair, 0.4% Poor.
- 282
- Public bridges
- 66.3%
- Good condition
- 0.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bastrop County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 38%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 282
- public highway bridges
- 1988
- 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.
Bastrop County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bastrop County ranks #94 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.4%). Bastrop County, Texas contains 282 public highway bridges. Roughly 66.3% are rated “Good,” 33.3% “Fair,” and 0.4% “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
66.3%
187 of 282 rated 7-9
Fair condition
33.3%
94 of 282 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.4%
1 of 282 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#94 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 282 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 66.3% (187)
Fair 33.3% (94)
Poor 0.4% (1)
Bastrop County's Poor-condition bridges carry 241 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 241 crossings a day against 5,361 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 282 of 282 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
27% of Bastrop County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
76 of the 282 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 66.3% 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
OLD MCDADE ROAD over BIG SANDY CREEK, built 1922, carries 241 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 241 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bastrop County's bridges were built
282 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 6
1920–1929
6 bridges
- 1930s 14
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1940s 18
1940–1949
18 bridges
- 1950s 18
1950–1959
18 bridges
- 1960s 18
1960–1969
18 bridges
- 1970s 7
1970–1979
7 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
32 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
40 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
67 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
34 bridges
- 2020s
2020–2029
28 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 67 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1988, 8 years newer than the Texas average of 1980.
How Bastrop County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Bastrop County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.4% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gonzales County | 284 | 45.4% | 51.8% | 2.8% | 1969 |
| Cooke County | 283 | 48.1% | 49.1% | 2.8% | 1983 |
| Bastrop County (this page) | 282 | 66.3% | 33.3% | 0.4% | 1988 |
| Limestone County | 280 | 32.1% | 63.9% | 3.9% | 1975 |
| Rusk County | 280 | 24.6% | 75% | 0.4% | 1975 |
| Hays County | 272 | 79% | 20.6% | 0.4% | 1996 |
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 Bastrop 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 Bastrop County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (282 bridges here).
- Daviess County, KY · 282 bridges
- Acadia County, LA · 282 bridges
- New Madrid County, MO · 282 bridges
- Forrest County, MS · 283 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1988 here).
- Grant County, OK · avg 1988 · 476 bridges
- Loudoun County, VA · avg 1988 · 442 bridges
- Licking County, OH · avg 1988 · 439 bridges
- Vernon County, MO · avg 1988 · 401 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (187)
BALCH RD
GoodOver: YOUNGS PRAIRIE CREEK
1.7 MI NW OF FM 1704, Bastrop, TX
Built 1991 Load: 20.9 t ADT: 330
US 290
GoodOver: OAK CREEK
0.1 MI E OF SH 95, Bastrop, TX
Built 1941 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 18,019
FM 20
GoodOver: UPPER CEDAR HOLLOW
0.35 MI N OF FM 812, Bastrop, TX
Built 1944 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,623
SH 71
GoodOver: DRAW
8.9 MI E OF SH 21, Bastrop, TX
Built 1943 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 17,985
SH 71 EBFR
GoodOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
14.1 MI E OF SH 95/SH 21, Bastrop, TX
Built 1984 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,340
SH 71 WBFR
GoodOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
14.1 MI E OF SH 95/SH 21, Bastrop, TX
Built 1984 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,340
FM 1100
GoodOver: DRAW
0.05 MI SE OF SH 95, Bastrop, TX
Built 1997 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,346
SH 95
GoodOver: HARRIS CREEK
8.7 MI S OF US 290, Bastrop, TX
Built 1939 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 7,224
SH 95
GoodOver: DRAW
0.1 MI S OF LOOP 150, Bastrop, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 24,997
SH 21
GoodOver: HALFWAY CREEK
0.9 MI E OF FM 1209, Bastrop, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 10,679
SH 304
GoodOver: DRAW
1.6 MI S OF FM 2571, Bastrop, TX
Built 1954 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,929
SH 304
GoodOver: DRAW
0.6 MI S OF FM 535, Bastrop, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,869
FM 969
GoodOver: DRAW
0.7 MI SE OF FM 1704, Bastrop, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 5,668
FM 969
GoodOver: DRAW
2.3 MI W OF SH 71, Bastrop, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,893
FM 1100
GoodOver: ELM CREEK
1.0 MI W OF SH 95, Bastrop, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,368
FM 1704
GoodOver: LITTLE SANDY CREEK
1.8 MI S OF LP 109, Bastrop, TX
Built 1952 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,777
FM 1704
GoodOver: DRAW
3.2 MI S OF LP 109, Bastrop, TX
Built 1952 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,777
FM 2104
GoodOver: CEDAR CREEK
3.3 MI S OF US 290, Bastrop, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,483
FM 2104
GoodOver: DRAW
4.7 MI S OF FM 2239, Bastrop, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,629
FM 2239
GoodOver: DRAW
0.7 MI E OF FM 2104, Bastrop, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 898
FM 1209
GoodOver: DRAW
0.7 MI NE OF SH 71, Bastrop, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,594
FM 2571
GoodOver: DRAW
2.7 MI E OF SH 304, Bastrop, TX
Built 1963 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 555
HIGH GROVE RD
GoodOver: ALUM CREEK
2.3 MI SW OF FM 535, Bastrop, TX
Built 1997 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 184
S POPE BEND ROAD
GoodOver: MOSS BRANCH
1.35 MI S OF SH 71, Bastrop, TX
Built 1997 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,037
US 290 EB
GoodOver: ELM CREEK
1.0 MI W OF SH 95, Bastrop, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 13,450
SH 71 EB
GoodOver: COTTONWOOD CREEK
5.3 MI W OF FM 1209, Bastrop, TX
Built 1949 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 13,559
FM 535
GoodOver: DRAW
6.8 MI E OF FM 304, Bastrop, TX
Built 1964 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,143
ARBUCKLE RD
GoodOver: LITTLE SANDY CREEK
0.85 MI SE OF FM 1704, Bastrop, TX
Built 2009 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 191
MONKEY RD
GoodOver: WILBARGER CREEK TRIB
0.2 MI SE OF LITTIG RD, Bastrop, TX
Built 2007 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 536
MOUNT OLIVE RD
GoodOver: DRAW
0.01 MI S OF SH 21, Bastrop, TX
Built 2006 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 496
CR 82 (SHILO RD)
GoodOver: DRAW
0.1 MI W OF SH 304, Bastrop, TX
Built 2018 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 400
RED TOWN RD
GoodOver: LITTLE SANDY CREEK TRIB
1.8 MI N OF ROEMER RD, Bastrop, TX
Built 1997 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 490
CR 84 (PLEASANT GR
GoodOver: LITTLE SANDY CREEK
1.59 MI NE OF FM 3000, Bastrop, TX
Built 2012 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 300
CR 146 (GOTIER TRA
GoodOver: SPAULDING BRANCH
0.18 MI W OF CR 159, Bastrop, TX
Built 2014 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
OLD PIN OAK RD
GoodOver: BRANCH OF TURNER CREEK
0.25 MI SW OF US 290, Bastrop, TX
Built 2005 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 330
CR 169
GoodOver: LONG BRANCH
0.56 MI NW OF CR 170, Bastrop, TX
Built 2018 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 150
CR 427 (KELLAR RD)
GoodOver: DRAW
0.57 MI N OF SH 71, Bastrop, TX
Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 200
GREASY BEND RD
GoodOver: DRAW
0.7 MI S OF FM 153, Bastrop, TX
Built 2006 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
GOERTZ ROAD
GoodOver: TOWN CREEK
0.1 MI NE OF CR 245, Bastrop, TX
Built 1997 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 709
PINE VALLEY LP RD
GoodOver: PINEY CREEK
1.5 MI W of SPUR 304, Bastrop, TX
Built 2004 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 610
PINE VALLEY LP RD
GoodOver: PINEY CREEK
3.0 MI W of SPUR 304, Bastrop, TX
Built 2004 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 600
LAKEVIEW DR
GoodOver: PINEY CREEK
0.38 MI NE OF CR 270, Bastrop, TX
Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 50
JEDDO ROAD
GoodOver: PEACH CREEK
2.3 MI N OF FM 713, Bastrop, TX
Built 2001 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 110
JEDDO ROAD
GoodOver: BRANCH OF ROCKY CREEK
3.9 MI N OF FM 713, Bastrop, TX
Built 2001 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 110
DAVIS RD
GoodOver: PIN OAK CREEK
0.1 MI E of Karisch Rd, Bastrop, TX
Built 2010 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 40
HELLINGER ROAD
GoodOver: BUCKNERS CREEK TRIBUTARY
1.3 MI W OF SH 95, Bastrop, TX
Built 2005 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 50
KOVAR ROAD
GoodOver: BARTONS CREEK BRANCH
2.8 MI E OF FM 535, Bastrop, TX
Built 2004 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR 315 (JONES ST)
GoodOver: WILLOW CREEK
1.29 MI N OF ZAPALAC RD, Bastrop, TX
Built 2007 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR 335 (OLD 71)
GoodOver: RED GULLEY CREEK
0.3 MI E OF SH 71, Bastrop, TX
Built 1923 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 500
VOSS PARKWAY
GoodOver: DRAW
0.4 MI N OF SH 21, Bastrop, TX
Built 2000 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 400
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