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Bosque County, TX

145 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 45.5% rated Good, 53.1% Fair, 1.4% Poor.

145
Public bridges: 45.5%
Good condition: 1.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Bosque 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.

153rd
of 247 on Poor share: 1.4%
Poor-condition share: 145
public highway bridges: 1959
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.

Bosque County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bosque County ranks #153 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.4%). Bosque County, Texas contains 145 public highway bridges. Roughly 45.5% are rated “Good,” 53.1% “Fair,” and 1.4% “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.

Total bridges

145

Public highway bridges in Bosque County

Good condition

45.5%

66 of 145 rated 7-9

Fair condition

53.1%

77 of 145 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.4%

2 of 145 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#153 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 145 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

45.5% (66)

Fair

53.1% (77)

Poor

1.4% (2)

Bosque County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,464 vehicle crossings a day

That is 2.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,732 crossings a day against 1,854 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 145 of 145 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

80% of Bosque County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

116 of the 145 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 45.5% 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 58.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

FM 219 over BOSQUE RIVER RELIEF, built 1950, carries 3,219 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 5,464 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1920s

2
1930s

25
1940s

28
1950s

54
1960s

3
1970s

5
1980s

3
1990s

13
2000s

3
2010s

5
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 54 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 37.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1959, 21 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Bosque County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.4% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1959 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is 10 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Bosque County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Frio County	146	63.7%	36.3%	0%	1967
La Salle County	146	55.5%	44.5%	0%	1975
Cass County	145	44.1%	55.9%	0%	1967
Fisher County	145	46.9%	48.3%	4.8%	1962
Bosque County (this page)	145	45.5%	53.1%	1.4%	1959
Ector County	144	38.2%	61.8%	0%	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 Bosque 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 Bosque County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (145 bridges here).

Dearborn County, IN · 145 bridges
Floyd County, IN · 145 bridges
McDonald County, MO · 145 bridges
Lenoir County, NC · 145 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1959 here).

Tulare County, CA · avg 1959 · 589 bridges
Barton County, KS · avg 1959 · 449 bridges
Nassau County, NY · avg 1959 · 328 bridges
Marion County, KS · avg 1959 · 324 bridges

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

All 145 Good 66 Fair 77 Poor 2

Good-condition bridges (66)

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Bosque County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Bosque County's Poor-condition bridges carry 5,464 vehicle crossings a day

80% of Bosque County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 58.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Bosque 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

Good-condition bridges (66)

SH 22

SH 22

SH 22

SH 22

SH 22

SH 6

SH 6

SH 6

SH 6

SH 6

SH 6

SH 6

SH 6

SH 6

SH 144

SH 144

FM 1991

FM 56

FM 927

FM 927

SH 174

SH 174

FM 927

FM 927

FM 927

FM 927

FM 219

FM 182

FM 182

FM 182

FM 2840

CR 2700

CR 3235

CR 3220

G ST

HOUSTON ST

HILL ST

SH 6

SH 6

CR 1115

CR 2650

FM 56

SH 6

FM 1713

SH 6

FM 56

FM 2602

FM 2602

FM 927

FM 927

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