Total bridges
52
Public highway bridges in Brooks County
County profile · official public datasets
Brooks County, TX
52 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 67.3% rated Good, 32.7% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 52
- Public bridges
- 67.3%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Brooks County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 20%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 52
- public highway bridges
- 1987
- 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.
Brooks County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Brooks County ranks #50 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Brooks County, Texas contains 52 public highway bridges. Roughly 67.3% are rated “Good,” 32.7% “Fair,” and 0% “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
67.3%
35 of 52 rated 7-9
Fair condition
32.7%
17 of 52 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 52 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#50 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 52 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 67.3% (35)
Fair 32.7% (17)
Poor 0% (0)
26.9% of Brooks County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
14 of the 52 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 67.3% 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.
When Brooks County's bridges were built
52 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 4
1920–1929
4 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s 4
1950–1959
4 bridges
- 1960s 3
1960–1969
3 bridges
- 1970s 6
1970–1979
6 bridges
- 1980s 7
1980–1989
7 bridges
- 1990s 3
1990–1999
3 bridges
- 2000s 4
2000–2009
4 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
19 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 36.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1987, 7 years newer than the Texas average of 1980.
How Brooks County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Brooks County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1987 against a peer-group mean of 1962 is 25 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rains County | 53 | 45.3% | 50.9% | 3.8% | 1979 |
| Terrell County | 53 | 54.7% | 45.3% | 0% | 1957 |
| Throckmorton County | 53 | 56.6% | 41.5% | 1.9% | 1954 |
| Borden County | 52 | 53.8% | 46.2% | 0% | 1957 |
| Brooks County (this page) | 52 | 67.3% | 32.7% | 0% | 1987 |
| Garza County | 51 | 27.5% | 72.5% | 0% | 1962 |
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 Brooks 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 Brooks County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (52 bridges here).
- Copper River County, AK · 52 bridges
- McDuffie County, GA · 52 bridges
- Terrell County, GA · 52 bridges
- Tensas County, LA · 52 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1987 here).
- St. Louis County, MO · avg 1987 · 912 bridges
- St. Louis County, MN · avg 1987 · 663 bridges
- Palm Beach County, FL · avg 1987 · 610 bridges
- Dane County, WI · avg 1987 · 590 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (17)
N WILLIAMS ST
FairOver: PALO BLANCO CREEK
0.15 MI N OF SH 285, Brooks, TX
Built 1940 Load: 12.7 t ADT: 131
SH 285
FairOver: CIBOLO CREEK
0.60 MI E OF US 281, Brooks, TX
Built 1925 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 10,889
BUS 281
FairOver: CIBOLO CREEK
0.60 MI N OF SH 285, Brooks, TX
Built 1928 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,890
FM 3066
FairOver: UNA DE GATO CREEK
1.50 MI W OF US 281, Brooks, TX
Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 333
FM 754
FairOver: CIBOLO CREEK
0.20 MI S OF FM 1418, Brooks, TX
Built 1971 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 260
FM 1418
FairOver: LOS OLMOS CREEK
1.18 MI E OF US 281, Brooks, TX
Built 1965 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,404
MARIPOSA RD(CR225)
FairOver: LOS OLMOS CREEK
0.76 MI S OF JCT FM 2191, Brooks, TX
Built 1981 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 329
SH 285
FairOver: LOS OLMOS CREEK
1.90 MI W OF FM 2191, Brooks, TX
Built 1925 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 6,275
FM 2191
FairOver: CIBOLO CREEK
0.70 MI E OF US 281, Brooks, TX
Built 2001 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,131
US 281 NB
FairOver: BUFFALO HOLLOW
7.4 MI S OF FM 755, Brooks, TX
Built 1941 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 12,376
US 281 SB FR
FairOver: PALO BLANCO CREEK
0.15 MI N OF SH 285, Brooks, TX
Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 11,400
US 281 NB
FairOver: FM 3066
2.55 MI S OF SH 285, Brooks, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,300
US 281 SB
FairOver: FM 3066
2.55 MI S OF SH 285, Brooks, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,521
US 281 NB
FairOver: FM 755
7.85 MI N OF HIDALGO C/L, Brooks, TX
Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 6,322
US 281 SB
FairOver: FM 755
7.85 MI N OF HIDALGO C/L, Brooks, TX
Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 6,288
US 281 NB
FairOver: SOUTH BUS 281
0.95 MI S OF SH 285, Brooks, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 8,064
US 281 SB
FairOver: NORTH BUS 281
0.80 MI N OF SH 285, Brooks, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,083
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