Total bridges
40
Public highway bridges in Camp County
County profile · official public datasets
Camp County, TX
40 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 57.5% rated Good, 42.5% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 40
- Public bridges
- 57.5%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Camp County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- Top 23%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 40
- public highway bridges
- 1977
- 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.
Camp County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Camp County ranks #57 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Camp County, Texas contains 40 public highway bridges. Roughly 57.5% are rated “Good,” 42.5% “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
57.5%
23 of 40 rated 7-9
Fair condition
42.5%
17 of 40 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 40 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#57 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 40 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 57.5% (23)
Fair 42.5% (17)
Poor 0% (0)
40% of Camp County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
16 of the 40 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 57.5% 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.
When Camp County's bridges were built
40 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
9 bridges
- 1960s 3
1960–1969
3 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
6 bridges
- 1980s 2
1980–1989
2 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
8 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 9 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1977) matches the Texas average (1980).
How Camp County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Camp County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1977 against a peer-group mean of 1956 is 21 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp County (this page) | 40 | 57.5% | 42.5% | 0% | 1977 |
| Upton County | 39 | 43.6% | 56.4% | 0% | 1947 |
| Kinney County | 38 | 44.7% | 55.3% | 0% | 1938 |
| Lipscomb County | 38 | 39.5% | 57.9% | 2.6% | 1966 |
| Hansford County | 36 | 36.1% | 63.9% | 0% | 1970 |
| Zapata County | 36 | 69.4% | 30.6% | 0% | 1961 |
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 Camp 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 Camp County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (40 bridges here).
- Taliaferro County, GA · 40 bridges
- Clark County, ID · 40 bridges
- St. John the Baptist County, LA · 40 bridges
- Douglas County, MN · 40 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1977 here).
- San Diego County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,632 bridges
- King County, WA · avg 1977 · 1,238 bridges
- Riverside County, CA · avg 1977 · 1,117 bridges
- Shelby County, TN · avg 1977 · 1,077 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (17)
SH 11
FairOver: DRAW
3.30 MI E OF US 271, Camp, TX
Built 1925 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,151
US 271
FairOver: PRAIRIE CREEK
2.25 MI S OF FM 3384, Camp, TX
Built 1975 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 7,371
LP 238
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
AT JCT WITH US 271, Camp, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,321
FM 993
FairOver: DRAW
1.90 MI E OF FM 1975 S, Camp, TX
Built 1951 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 301
FM 1975
FairOver: ELLISON BRANCH
1.30 MI S OF FM 557, Camp, TX
Built 1954 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 2254
FairOver: DRY CREEK
1.30 MI SE OF FM 993, Camp, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 979
SH 11
FairOver: SPARKS BRANCH
0.60 MI E OF US 271, Camp, TX
Built 1925 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,228
SH 11
FairOver: SPARKS BRANCH TRIBUTARY
0.90 MI E OF US 271, Camp, TX
Built 1925 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,228
FM 1519
FairOver: CHAFFIN BRANCH
3.35 MI E OF SH 11, Camp, TX
Built 1951 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 324
FM 1519
FairOver: ELLISON BRANCH
4.75 MI E OF SH 11, Camp, TX
Built 1951 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 324
FM 557
FairOver: DRY CREEK
2.75 MI E OF US 271, Camp, TX
Built 1948 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,164
LP 179
FairOver: WALKERS CREEK TRIBUTARY
1.10 MI W OF US 271, Camp, TX
Built 1986 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,511
CR 2332
FairOver: LAKE BOB SANDLIN TRIB
1.9 MI N OF FM 21, Camp, TX
Built 1978 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 102
SH 11
FairOver: KCS RAILROAD
4.40 MI E OF US 271, Camp, TX
Built 1958 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,151
FM 3535
FairOver: US 271
3.00 MI N OF LP 179, Camp, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,040
FM 1520
FairOver: TEXAS UTILITIES RR
4.90 MI N W OF LP 179, Camp, TX
Built 1978 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 351
CR 3318
FairOver: MIDDLE LILLY CREEK
0.2 MI N OF CR 3316, Camp, TX
Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 100
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