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Brown County, TX

223 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 35.4% rated Good, 64.6% Fair, 0% Poor.

223
Public bridges
35.4%
Good condition
0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Brown County pairs a top-5% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 2%
lowest Poor share in state
0%
Poor-condition share
223
public highway bridges
1955
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.

Brown County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Brown County ranks #5 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Brown County, Texas contains 223 public highway bridges. Roughly 35.4% are rated “Good,” 64.6% “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.

Total bridges

223

Public highway bridges in Brown County

Good condition

35.4%

79 of 223 rated 7-9

Fair condition

64.6%

144 of 223 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0%

0 of 223 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#5 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 223 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
35.4% (79)
Fair
64.6% (144)
Poor
0% (0)

78% of Brown County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

174 of the 223 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 35.4% 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 Brown County's bridges were built

223 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 84 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 37.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1955, 25 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Brown County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1955 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 25 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Brown County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Washington County 232 3.4%
Comal County 231 0%
Liberty County 231 2.2%
Brown County (this page) 223 0%
Live Oak County 217 1.8%
Henderson County 216 0.5%

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 Brown 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 Brown County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (223 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1955 here).

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

All 223 Good 79 Fair 144 Poor 0

All bridges (223)

CR 228

Good

Over: INDIAN CREEK

2.70 MI NW OF FM 586, Brown, TX

Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CR 229

Good

Over: INDIAN CREEK

1.60 MI SW OF FM 586, Brown, TX

Built 1989 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CR 234

Good

Over: VULCAN QUARRY RD

1.2 MI SW Chapel Hill Rd, Brown, TX

Built 2011 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

CR 258

Good

Over: DOUDLE CREEK

0.15 MI SE OF CR 257, Brown, TX

Built 2017 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 140

CR 267 (ELKINS RD)

Good

Over: LEWIS CREEK

1.20 MI SE OF FM 2126, Brown, TX

Built 2021 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 231

CR 291

Good

Over: BLANKET CREEK

1.25 MI E OF FM 1467, Brown, TX

Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CR 321

Good

Over: Draw

0.7 MI from FM US 377, Brown, TX

Built 2021 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CR 334

Good

Over: SALT CREEK

0.4 MI E OF US 183, Brown, TX

Built 2017 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 80

Market St

Good

Over: Adams Branch

0.23 mi N of Commerce St, Brown, TX

Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,000

W BAKER ST

Good

Over: ADAMS BRANCH

0.20 MI N OF US 377, Brown, TX

Built 1976 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,393

BELLE PLAIN AVE

Good

Over: ADAMS BRANCH

0.15 MI N OF US 377, Brown, TX

Built 1995 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,074

S BROADWAY

Good

Over: ADAMS BRANCH

0.10 MI NE OF FISK ST, Brown, TX

Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,068

CC WOODSON

Good

Over: ADAMS BRANCH

0.65 MI SW OF FM 2525, Brown, TX

Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10,740

US 67 NB

Good

Over: BLANKET CREEK TRIBUTARY

0.20 MI SW OF FM 1467 W, Brown, TX

Built 1930 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 2,926

US 377

Good

Over: CLEAR CREEK

5.95 MI NE OF MCCULLOCH C, Brown, TX

Built 1931 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 2,087

FM 590

Good

Over: BLANKET CREEK

2.45 MI NE OF US 84, Brown, TX

Built 1979 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 307

FM 1176

Good

Over: E FORK CLEAR CREEK

3.65 MI W OF US 377, Brown, TX

Built 1954 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 345

FM 1176

Good

Over: E FORK CLEAR CREEK REL

3.55 MI W OF US 377, Brown, TX

Built 1954 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 345

FM 2525

Good

Over: STEPPES CREEK

1.80 MI SE OF FM 2126, Brown, TX

Built 1977 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 454

FM 3021

Good

Over: ROCKY CREEK

2.35 MI E OF SH 279, Brown, TX

Built 1977 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 626

FM 2126

Good

Over: PECAN BAYOU

1.10 MI SW OF FM 2525, Brown, TX

Built 1943 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 3,246

FM 2940

Good

Over: PAINT CREEK

3.60 MI E OF SH 279, Brown, TX

Built 1990 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 123

CR 411

Good

Over: RED RIVER

3.30 MI SE OF CR 120, Brown, TX

Built 1990 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 100

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.