Total bridges
331
Public highway bridges in Bowie County
County profile · official public datasets
Bowie County, TX
331 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.5% rated Good, 52.9% Fair, 0.6% Poor.
- 331
- Public bridges
- 46.5%
- Good condition
- 0.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Bowie County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 44%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 331
- public highway bridges
- 1975
- 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.
Bowie County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Bowie County ranks #108 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.6%). Bowie County, Texas contains 331 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.5% are rated “Good,” 52.9% “Fair,” and 0.6% “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
46.5%
154 of 331 rated 7-9
Fair condition
52.9%
175 of 331 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.6%
2 of 331 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#108 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 331 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 46.5% (154)
Fair 52.9% (175)
Poor 0.6% (2)
Bowie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 359 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 180 crossings a day against 6,522 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 331 of 331 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
57.4% of Bowie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
190 of the 331 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 46.5% 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 86.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
SHERWOOD FOREST RD over AIKEN CREEK, built 1979, carries 309 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 359 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Bowie County's bridges were built
331 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 9
1920–1929
9 bridges
- 1930s 6
1930–1939
6 bridges
- 1940s 24
1940–1949
24 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
36 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
72 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
67 bridges
- 1980s 25
1980–1989
25 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
29 bridges
- 2000s 26
2000–2009
26 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
34 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 72 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1975, 5 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Bowie County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Bowie County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.6% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parker County | 350 | 49.7% | 49.1% | 1.1% | 1985 |
| Navarro County | 345 | 40.6% | 58.3% | 1.2% | 1979 |
| Galveston County | 344 | 57.6% | 39.5% | 2.9% | 1987 |
| Victoria County | 344 | 70.1% | 27.6% | 2.3% | 1979 |
| Bowie County (this page) | 331 | 46.5% | 52.9% | 0.6% | 1975 |
| Tom Green County | 310 | 61% | 38.4% | 0.6% | 1971 |
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 Bowie 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 Bowie County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (331 bridges here).
- Sebastian County, AR · 331 bridges
- Pike County, KY · 331 bridges
- Franklin County, MO · 331 bridges
- Harrison County, MO · 331 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1975 here).
- San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
- Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
- Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
- Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (175)
IH 30 EB
FairOver: KCS RR & N PARK ST
0.40 MI W OF US 59, Bowie, TX
Built 1963 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 21,555
US 67
FairOver: CALVERT CREEK
1.20 MI N OF CASS C/L, Bowie, TX
Built 1956 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 708
US 67
FairOver: HOLBROOK CREEK
2.50 MI S OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1956 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 708
US 67
FairOver: BASSETTS CREEK
0.50 MI SW OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1956 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 888
US 67
FairOver: ANDERSON CREEK
1.80 MI W OF SH 8, Bowie, TX
Built 1957 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 972
US 259
FairOver: BLYTHE CREEK
2.20 MI N OF FM 561, Bowie, TX
Built 1960 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,801
FM 2735
FairOver: MUD CREEK
1.00 MI N OF US 82, Bowie, TX
Built 1974 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 361
US 259
FairOver: MUD CREEK
1.00 MI N OF US 82, Bowie, TX
Built 1964 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,573
US 59 NB
FairOver: MCKINNEY BAYOU
2.80 MI N OF IH 30, Bowie, TX
Built 1988 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,320
US 59 NB
FairOver: AIKEN CREEK
0.30 MI N OF FM 2148, Bowie, TX
Built 1961 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 8,325
IH 30 EB
FairOver: WEAVER CREEK RELIEF
1.00 MI E OF FM 44, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 16,234
IH 30 WB
FairOver: WEAVER CREEK RELIEF
1.00 MI E OF FM 44, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 15,530
IH 30 WB
FairOver: ANDERSON CRK WEST REL
0.90 MI E OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 15,592
IH 30 EB
FairOver: ANDERSON CRK WEST REL
0.90 MI E OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 16,673
IH 30 WB
FairOver: ANDERSON CRK EAST REL
1.30 MI E OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 15,592
IH 30 EB
FairOver: ANDERSON CRK EAST REL
1.30 MI E OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 16,673
IH 30 EB
FairOver: BLYTHE CREEK
0.70 MI S OF FM 561, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 16,097
IH 30 WB
FairOver: BLYTHE CREEK
0.70 MI S OF FM 561, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 15,625
FM 989
FairOver: IH 30
2.00 MI W OF US 59, Bowie, TX
Built 1964 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 7,740
IH369NB TO IH30 EB
FairOver: IH 30 EBFR
0.55 MI N OF US 82, Bowie, TX
Built 2010 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 19,140
IH 30WB TO IH369SB
FairOver: IH 30
1.45 MI E OF FM 2878, Bowie, TX
Built 2010 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,660
LP 151 EB
FairOver: FM558 UP KCSRR DAYS CRK
1.0 MI W OF STATE LINE AV, Bowie, TX
Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,506
LP 151 WB
FairOver: FM558 UP KCSRR DAYSCRK
1.0 MI W OF STATE LINE AV, Bowie, TX
Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,364
CR 1208
FairOver: BIG CREEK
2.5 MI S OF RED WATER, Bowie, TX
Built 1986 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 319
CLEAR SPRINGS ROAD
FairOver: WRIGHT PATMAN LAKE
WRIGHT PATMAN LAKE, Bowie, TX
Built 1995 Load: 41.8 t ADT: 82
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