Total bridges
196
Public highway bridges in Cherokee County
County profile · official public datasets
Cherokee County, TX
196 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 26% rated Good, 74% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 196
- Public bridges
- 26%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Cherokee 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 3%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 196
- public highway bridges
- 1974
- 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.
Cherokee County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Cherokee County ranks #7 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Cherokee County, Texas contains 196 public highway bridges. Roughly 26% are rated “Good,” 74% “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
26%
51 of 196 rated 7-9
Fair condition
74%
145 of 196 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 196 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#7 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 196 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 26% (51)
Fair 74% (145)
Poor 0% (0)
56.1% of Cherokee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
110 of the 196 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 26% 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 Cherokee County's bridges were built
196 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
22 bridges
- 1940s 12
1940–1949
12 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
32 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
29 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
17 bridges
- 1980s 9
1980–1989
9 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
24 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
30 bridges
- 2010s 9
2010–2019
9 bridges
- 2020s 10
2020–2029
10 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 32 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1974, 6 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Cherokee County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Cherokee 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 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coryell County | 204 | 54.4% | 45.1% | 0.5% | 1971 |
| Erath County | 198 | 53.5% | 46% | 0.5% | 1973 |
| Houston County | 196 | 41.3% | 51.5% | 7.1% | 1984 |
| Cherokee County (this page) | 196 | 26% | 74% | 0% | 1974 |
| Matagorda County | 192 | 37.5% | 55.7% | 6.8% | 1982 |
| Milam County | 191 | 44.5% | 54.5% | 1% | 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 Cherokee 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 Cherokee County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (196 bridges here).
- Page County, IA · 196 bridges
- Wilkin County, MN · 196 bridges
- Sampson County, NC · 196 bridges
- Mifflin County, PA · 196 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1974 here).
- Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
- Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
- Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
- Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (196)
FM 851
FairOver: BIG ATOY CREEK
2.35 MI SW OF FM 34, Cherokee, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 222
FM 851
FairOver: LITTLE ATOY CREEK
2.25 MI NE OF FM 241, Cherokee, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 222
FM 851
FairOver: ALTO BRANCH
0.80 MI NE OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 246
FM 855
FairOver: JORDAN CREEK
0.10 MI N OF US 175, Cherokee, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,652
FM 855
FairOver: FLAT CREEK (W)
2.40 MI N OF US 175, Cherokee, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,652
FM 1247
FairOver: DEVILS BAYOU
0.35 MI NW OF FM 1819, Cherokee, TX
Built 1951 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 170
FM 1247
FairOver: LARRISON CREEK
0.50 MI SW OF FM 1911, Cherokee, TX
Built 1966 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 198
FM 1247
FairOver: SANDY CREEK
1.70 MI SW OF FM 1911, Cherokee, TX
Built 1966 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 198
FM 220
FairOver: CEDAR CREEK
2.45 MI S OF SH 21, Cherokee, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 49
FM 1857
FairOver: BOX CREEK
6.40 MI SW OF FM 23, Cherokee, TX
Built 1954 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 349
FM 2138
FairOver: CAT CREEK
3.75 MI S OF FM 347, Cherokee, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,592
FM 752
FairOver: BOWLES CREEK
2.90 MI NW OF SH 294, Cherokee, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 259
FM 2274
FairOver: BOGGY BRANCH
1.40 MI SE OF FM 856, Cherokee, TX
Built 1966 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 375
FM 2972
FairOver: BEANS CREEK
0.90 MI E OF FM 347, Cherokee, TX
Built 1973 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 652
CANADA ST
FairOver: RAGSDALE CR
1.0 MI E OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1982 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,010
US 84
FairOver: TAILS CREEK
3.70 MI E OF ANDERSON C/L, Cherokee, TX
Built 1968 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,255
US 175
FairOver: Jordan Cr Tr
0.13 MI NW OF FM 855, Cherokee, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 5,380
US 79
FairOver: BARBER CREEK
3.75 MI E OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 8,092
FM 13
FairOver: HAMPTON CREEK
1.05 MI NW OF FM 856, Cherokee, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,858
FM 13
FairOver: Grissom Cr
0.47 MI E OF FM 856, Cherokee, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,323
SL 456
FairOver: RAGSDALE CREEK
1.60 MI NE OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1973 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,488
CR 1318
FairOver: MULE CR
0.50 MI S OF CR 1316, Cherokee, TX
Built 2003 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10
CR 3122
FairOver: LAKE JACKSONVILLE BR
0.6 MI SE OF PINEDA ST, Cherokee, TX
Built 1967 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 200
M L KING BLVD
FairOver: RAGSDALE CR
0.4 MI NE OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 210
NEWBERN ST
FairOver: RAGSDALE CR
0.25 MI S OF US 79, Cherokee, TX
Built 1976 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 592
Panther Crossing
FairOver: Rome Br (Flat Cr)
0.25mi W of FM 2493, Cherokee, TX
Built 2009 Load: 24.5 t
SH 294
FairOver: BOWLES CREEK
2.80 Mi W of SH 21, Cherokee, TX
Built 1941 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 1,317
CR 2113
FairOver: ONE ARM CR
0.25 MI E OF CR 2112, Cherokee, TX
Built 1991 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 50
CR 2407
FairOver: BOWLES CR
1.1 MI NW OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 2005 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 190
US 84
FairOver: NECHES RIVER
At Anderson C/L, Cherokee, TX
Built 1950 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 1,191
CR 3111
FairOver: GUM CR
1.0 MI S OF FM 747, Cherokee, TX
Built 1932 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 689
CR 2313
FairOver: MERIDETH CR
0.1 MI S OF FM 23, Cherokee, TX
Built 2000 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 380
CR 1411
FairOver: RAGSDALE CR
0.7 MI S OF SH 204, Cherokee, TX
Built 1997 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 405
CR 3305
FairOver: GUM CR
0.25 MI W OF CR 3301, Cherokee, TX
Built 1940 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 338
US 79
FairOver: NECHES RIVER
0.00 MI E OF ANDERSON C/L, Cherokee, TX
Built 1958 Load: 29.4 t ADT: 3,847
US 79
FairOver: SAMPSON CREEK
2.05 MI W OF RUSK C/L, Cherokee, TX
Built 1930 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 3,791
US 79
FairOver: STRIKER CREEK
0.40 MI W OF RUSK C/L, Cherokee, TX
Built 1930 Load: 29.8 t ADT: 4,323
CR 1405
FairOver: KEYES CR
0.8 MI E OF OKEEFE DR, Cherokee, TX
Built 1932 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 432
CR 4719
FairOver: BRIDGE CR
0.05 MI E OF SH 110, Cherokee, TX
Built 1993 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 102
US 79
FairOver: Neches Rv Rl (N)
0.55 MI E OF ANDERSON C/L, Cherokee, TX
Built 1928 Load: 30.0 t ADT: 4,226
US 79
FairOver: MUD CREEK (W)
6.25 MI E OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1930 Load: 30.0 t ADT: 4,822
US 79
FairOver: MUD CREEK (E)
6.45 MI E OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1930 Load: 30.0 t ADT: 4,822
FM 3052
FairOver: MUD CREEK
1.05 MI S OF SMITH C/L, Cherokee, TX
Built 1968 Load: 30.0 t ADT: 1,086
CR 2404
FairOver: MCCANN CR
1.4 MI S OF FM 241, Cherokee, TX
Built 2005 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 50
CR 3901
FairOver: BIRCHES CR
3.3 MI S OF FM 177, Cherokee, TX
Built 1940 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 170
FM 1911
FairOver: LARRISON CREEK
3.65 MI W OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1957 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 193
FM 1857
FairOver: ONE EYE CREEK
2.90 MI SW OF FM 23, Cherokee, TX
Built 1961 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 444
CR 1519
FairOver: RAGSDALE CR BR
0.30 MI S OF FM 768, Cherokee, TX
Built 1999 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 90
CR 4118
FairOver: E GUM CR
1.7 MI N OF US 175, Cherokee, TX
Built 1940 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 140
SH 294
FairOver: WHITE OAK CREEK
5.70 MI W OF US 69, Cherokee, TX
Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 810
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