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.
All bridges (331)
FM 989
FairOver: CHEATHAM BRANCH
0.27 MI S OF IH 30, Bowie, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 10,920
FM 1398 WEST
FairOver: BARKMAN CREEK
1.60 MI N OF IH 30, Bowie, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 444
FM 1398
FairOver: E JONES CREEK
0.20 MI N OF IH 30, Bowie, TX
Built 1952 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 742
FM 1701
FairOver: YOUNG CREEK
2.30 MI W OF US 259, Bowie, TX
Built 1964 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 739
FM 2149
FairOver: RICE CREEK
1.00 MI SW OF SH 8, Bowie, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 230
FM 2149
FairOver: RICE CREEK RELIEF
1.10 MI W OF SH 8, Bowie, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 230
FM 2149
FairOver: BIG CREEK
1.60 MI E OF SH 8, Bowie, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 878
FM 2253
FairOver: JONES CREEK
2.20 MI N OF IH 30, Bowie, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 206
FM 2148
FairOver: RAIN CREEK
0.50 MI E OF FM 2253, Bowie, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,870
FM 3527
FairOver: CORRAL CREEK
0.70 MI S OF SH 93, Bowie, TX
Built 1998 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,831
FM 3378
FairOver: RED BAYOU
1.10 MI N OF US 82, Bowie, TX
Built 1979 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,121
FM 2789
FairOver: DRAW
1.70 MI N OF US 82, Bowie, TX
Built 1963 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 195
E 2ND ST
FairOver: PANTHER CREEK
0.2 MI N OF US 82, Bowie, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 233
WASHINGTON AVE.
FairOver: JONES CREEK
0.2 MI W OF FM 1398, Bowie, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 204
POUNDS ST
FairOver: JONES CREEK
0.35 MI W OF FM 1398, Bowie, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 348
US 67
FairOver: SCHYLER CREEK
1.30 MI E OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1925 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,185
US 67
FairOver: BROOKS CREEK
1.90 MI NE OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1925 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,185
US 82
FairOver: LEARY CREEK
0.40 MI E OF FM 2253, Bowie, TX
Built 1924 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,152
FALVEY BLVD
FairOver: SOUTH WAGNER CREEK
0.2 MI E OF KILGORE ST, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 181
FINDLEY ST
FairOver: SOUTH WAGNER CREEK
0.8 MI W OF SH 93, Bowie, TX
Built 1973 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 765
FINDLEY ST
FairOver: WAGNER CREEK
0.3 MI W OF SH 93, Bowie, TX
Built 1970 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 935
FINDLEY ST
FairOver: HOWARD CREEK
0.35 MI E OF US 59, Bowie, TX
Built 1980 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 660
FLOWER ACRE RD
FairOver: HOWARD CREEK
0.3 MI S OF SH 93, Bowie, TX
Built 1970 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 879
GARBER ST
FairOver: SOUTH WAGNER CREEK
0.6 MI W OF SH 93, Bowie, TX
Built 1972 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 898
JAMISON ST
FairOver: WAGNER CREEK
1 MI E OF ROBISON RD, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 436
KENNEDY LANE
FairOver: COWHORN CREEK
0.5 MI E OF FM 559, Bowie, TX
Built 1969 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 7,821
KILGORE ST
FairOver: SOUTH WAGNER CREEK
0.35 MI S OF US 67, Bowie, TX
Built 1975 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 753
RICHMOND ST
FairOver: SWAMPOODLE CREEK
0.5 MI E OF SH 93, Bowie, TX
Built 1975 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,300
ROBISON RD
FairOver: WAGNER CREEK
75 FT N OF US 67, Bowie, TX
Built 1956 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 7,319
S ROBISON RD
FairOver: SOUTH WAGNER CREEK
0.7 MI S OF US 67, Bowie, TX
Built 1969 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,947
TEXAS VIADUCT
FairOver: BROAD ST UPRR SWAMPDLE
0.2 MI S OF W 4TH ST, Bowie, TX
Built 1975 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 5,480
TUCKER ST
FairOver: COWHORN CREEK
0.3 MI E OF ROBISON RD, Bowie, TX
Built 1965 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,577
W 5TH ST
FairOver: SWAMPOODLE CREEK
0.3 MI W OF TEXAS BLVD, Bowie, TX
Built 1978 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 174
W 14TH ST
FairOver: SWAMPOODLE CREEK
0.8 MI W OF STATELINE AVE, Bowie, TX
Built 1979 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,543
W 15TH ST
FairOver: COWHORN CREEK
0.7 MI W OF SUMMERHILL RD, Bowie, TX
Built 1978 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,758
ADDISON ST
FairOver: RED BAYOU
0.6 MI SW OF SH 8, Bowie, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 229
W. PATROL ROAD
FairOver: BIG CREEK
BTWN ARTERIAL RDS 2 & 3, Bowie, TX
Built 1942 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
US 67
FairOver: SULPHUR RIVER
AT SULPHUR RIVER, Bowie, TX
Built 1942 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 708
FM 44
FairOver: IH 30
3.30 MI SW OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 160
CR 4204(SILOAM RD)
FairOver: IH 30
1.00 MI W OF FM 990, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 72
TAYLOR ST
FairOver: CONN CREEK
0.7 MI W OF FM 991, Bowie, TX
Built 1920 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 45
IH 30 EB
FairOver: US 82
2.80 MI W OF SH 8, Bowie, TX
Built 1967 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 18,452
FM 561
FairOver: BLYTHE CREEK
2.60 MI E OF US 259, Bowie, TX
Built 1954 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 342
TEXAS VIADUCT NB
FairOver: NIX CREEK
0.5 MI S OF W 4TH ST, Bowie, TX
Built 1975 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 2,752
TEXAS VIADUCT SB
FairOver: NIX CREEK
0.5 MI S OF W 4TH ST, Bowie, TX
Built 1975 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 2,515
CR 4107(MALTA RD)
FairOver: IH 30
1.50 MI SW OF FM 1840, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 150
IH 30 EB
FairOver: FM 990
3.30 MI NE OF FM 44, Bowie, TX
Built 1971 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 16,673
US 67
FairOver: NETTLES CREEK
0.81 MI E OF FM 991 W, Bowie, TX
Built 1947 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 5,538
US 67
FairOver: ELLIOTT CREEK
1.40 MI E OF FM 991 W, Bowie, TX
Built 1947 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 5,538
US 82
FairOver: WAGGONER CREEK
0.60 MI W OF US 59, Bowie, TX
Built 1926 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 11,637
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