Total bridges
355
Public highway bridges in Cameron County
County profile · official public datasets
Cameron County, TX
355 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 62% rated Good, 37.5% Fair, 0.6% Poor.
- 355
- Public bridges
- 62%
- Good condition
- 0.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Cameron County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 42%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 355
- public highway bridges
- 1992
- 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.
Cameron County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cameron County ranks #104 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.6%). Cameron County, Texas contains 355 public highway bridges. Roughly 62% are rated “Good,” 37.5% “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
62%
220 of 355 rated 7-9
Fair condition
37.5%
133 of 355 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.6%
2 of 355 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#104 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 355 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 62% (220)
Fair 37.5% (133)
Poor 0.6% (2)
Cameron County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,330 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.2% 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 4,165 crossings a day against 12,768 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 355 of 355 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
23.7% of Cameron County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
84 of the 355 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 62% 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 94% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
MINNESOTA AVE over DRAINAGE DITCH, built 1960, carries 7,830 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 8,330 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Cameron County's bridges were built
355 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1940s 9
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s 13
1950–1959
13 bridges
- 1960s 26
1960–1969
26 bridges
- 1970s 44
1970–1979
44 bridges
- 1980s 22
1980–1989
22 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
60 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
139 bridges
- 2010s 37
2010–2019
37 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 139 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 39.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1992, 12 years newer than the Texas average of 1980.
How Cameron County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Cameron County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.6% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1992 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazos County | 370 | 62.4% | 37.6% | 0% | 1989 |
| Cameron County (this page) | 355 | 62% | 37.5% | 0.6% | 1992 |
| 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 |
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 Cameron 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 Cameron County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (355 bridges here).
- Hendricks County, IN · 355 bridges
- Burlington County, NJ · 356 bridges
- Richland County, OH · 356 bridges
- Ross County, OH · 356 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1992 here).
- Johnson County, KS · avg 1992 · 781 bridges
- Wake County, NC · avg 1992 · 760 bridges
- Benton County, AR · avg 1992 · 410 bridges
- Nodaway County, MO · avg 1992 · 396 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (133)
ODEM ROAD
FairOver: CCWID #2 DRAIN E
0.25 MI SE OF FM 1846, Cameron, TX
Built 2002 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
JOHNSON RD
FairOver: SAN VICENTE DRAIN DITCH
0.4 MI E OF FM 2925, Cameron, TX
Built 2011 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
PALM COURT DRIVE
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
2.0 MI S OF BUS 83, Cameron, TX
Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 809
DILWORTH ROAD
FairOver: ARROYO COLORADO
2.45 MI S OF BUS 83, Cameron, TX
Built 1998 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 444
BAUER ROAD
FairOver: SANTA MARIA MAIN CANAL
0.55 MI W OF JCT FM 2556, Cameron, TX
Built 1998 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 80
CALIFORNIA ROAD
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
1.4 MI S OF JCT SH 100, Cameron, TX
Built 2004 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 811
OLD SH 48
FairOver: UNION CARBIDE CHANNEL
2.70 MI NE of FM 511, Cameron, TX
Built 1979 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 500
SH 550
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH # 1
0.06 MI SE OF SH 48, Cameron, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,000
LOS TOMATES INTER.
FairOver: RIO GRANDE RIVER
.02 MI S OF TOLLBOOTH, Cameron, TX
Built 1999 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 12,430
W UNIVERSITY BLVD
FairOver: FORT BROWN RESACA
0.20 MI SE OF INTL. BLVD, Cameron, TX
Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,952
OLD PORT ISABEL RD
FairOver: MAIN DRAIN DITCH #1
0.7 MI NE OF FM 802, Cameron, TX
Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,720
RAMADA DRIVE
FairOver: CCID #1 DRAINAGE DITCH
0.01 MI S OF ESPERANZA RD, Cameron, TX
Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 911
E MORRISON RD
FairOver: CCDD # 1 DITCH NO. 1
1.25 MI E OF US 77, Cameron, TX
Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 15,531
QUEEN SAGO DRIVE
FairOver: CCDD#5 DRAINAGE DITCH
0.50 MI W OF FM 3195, Cameron, TX
Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,125
LOVETT ROAD
FairOver: CCWID #2 DITCH E
0.3 MI N OF JCT LP 448, Cameron, TX
Built 1984 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,286
STENGER STREET
FairOver: RESACA DE LOS FRESNOS
0.30 MI NW OF SH 345, Cameron, TX
Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 7,887
FM 2556
FairOver: ARROYO COLORADO
2.90 MI N OF US 281, Cameron, TX
Built 1966 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 2,008
LP 499
FairOver: CCWID #1 MAIN N DRAIN
0.60 MI E OF US 77, Cameron, TX
Built 1978 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 14,283
VASQUEZ RD
FairOver: S BENITO DRAINAGE DITCH
0.25 MI N OF FM 510, Cameron, TX
Built 1994 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 160
HOENING RD
FairOver: NORTH MAIN DRAIN
0.90 MI W OF FM 507, Cameron, TX
Built 1995 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 100
DAKOTA AVENUE
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
0.25 MI S OF FM 511, Cameron, TX
Built 1994 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 5,379
US 77 NB
FairOver: F ST
0.20 MI NW OF FM 1479, Cameron, TX
Built 2005 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 39,120
US 77 SB
FairOver: F ST
0.20 MI NW OF FM 1479, Cameron, TX
Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 39,120
US 77 NB
FairOver: FM 509 (HELEN MOORE RD)
1.50 MI SE OF FM 801, Cameron, TX
Built 2005 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 29,090
US 77 SB
FairOver: FM 509 (HELEN MOORE RD)
1.50 MI SE OF FM 801, Cameron, TX
Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 29,090
US 77
FairOver: CCDD #3 LATERAL V
0.50 MI NW OF FM 509, Cameron, TX
Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 24,184
US 77 SB
FairOver: FM 732 UPRR US 77 BUS
2.15 MI SE OF SH 345, Cameron, TX
Built 2005 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 22,880
US 77 NB
FairOver: FM 732 UP RR US 77 BUS
2.15 MI SE OF SH 345, Cameron, TX
Built 2005 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 22,880
FM 506
FairOver: ARROYO COLORADO
0.90 MI N OF FM 3067, Cameron, TX
Built 1958 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,026
FM 1846
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
3.00 MI S OF FM 106, Cameron, TX
Built 1989 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 4,611
FM 1419
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
2.20 MI SE OF SH 4, Cameron, TX
Built 1989 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 23,596
TULIPAN STREET
FairOver: CCWID #1 NORTH DRAIN
0.5 MI SE OF JCT FM 1419, Cameron, TX
Built 1988 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 6,863
DILWORTH ROAD
FairOver: CCDD #5 DRAIN
0.2 MI S OF BUS 83, Cameron, TX
Built 1998 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,272
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