Total bridges
91
Public highway bridges in Childress County
County profile · official public datasets
Childress County, TX
91 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 47.3% rated Good, 50.5% Fair, 2.2% Poor.
- 91
- Public bridges
- 47.3%
- Good condition
- 2.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Childress County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 184th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 2.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 91
- public highway bridges
- 1964
- 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.
Childress County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Childress County ranks #184 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.2%). Childress County, Texas contains 91 public highway bridges. Roughly 47.3% are rated “Good,” 50.5% “Fair,” and 2.2% “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
47.3%
43 of 91 rated 7-9
Fair condition
50.5%
46 of 91 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.2%
2 of 91 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#184 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 91 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 47.3% (43)
Fair 50.5% (46)
Poor 2.2% (2)
Childress County's Poor-condition bridges carry 9,570 vehicle crossings a day
That is 4.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,785 crossings a day against 2,088 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 91 of 91 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
73.6% of Childress County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
67 of the 91 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 47.3% 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.
One structure carries 58.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
US 287 SB over BNSF RAILROAD, built 1957, carries 5,570 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 9,570 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Childress County's bridges were built
91 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
19 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
13 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
15 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
12 bridges
- 1970s 7
1970–1979
7 bridges
- 1990s 5
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
10 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
- 2020s 6
2020–2029
6 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1964, 16 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Childress County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Childress County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.2% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1964 against a peer-group mean of 1967 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Augustine County | 94 | 46.8% | 53.2% | 0% | 1979 |
| Sabine County | 93 | 50.5% | 48.4% | 1.1% | 1979 |
| Sutton County | 92 | 39.1% | 60.9% | 0% | 1961 |
| Lampasas County | 91 | 50.5% | 49.5% | 0% | 1958 |
| Childress County (this page) | 91 | 47.3% | 50.5% | 2.2% | 1964 |
| San Saba County | 90 | 55.6% | 43.3% | 1.1% | 1960 |
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 Childress 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 Childress County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (91 bridges here).
- Baxter County, AR · 91 bridges
- Breckinridge County, KY · 91 bridges
- Reynolds County, MO · 91 bridges
- Dawes County, NE · 91 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1964 here).
- Bergen County, NJ · avg 1964 · 577 bridges
- Morris County, NJ · avg 1964 · 508 bridges
- Baltimore city County, MD · avg 1964 · 374 bridges
- Ross County, OH · avg 1964 · 356 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (43)
US 287 SIDE ROAD C
GoodOver: MIDDLE GROESBECK CREEK
9.259MI E OF CHILDRESS CT, Childress, TX
Built 1971 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 11,183
US 287
GoodOver: EAST GROESBECK CREEK
9.941MI E CHILDRESS CTY L, Childress, TX
Built 1971 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 11,183
US 62
GoodOver: SETTLERS CREEK
5.216MI E JCT US83, Childress, TX
Built 1972 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,130
FM 268
GoodOver: DRAW
7.280MI NE JCT US287 IN C, Childress, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 129
FM 1034
GoodOver: DRAW
1.369MI E JCT US83 N BUCK, Childress, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 1034
GoodOver: SAND CREEK
5.325MI E JCT US83, Childress, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,090
FM 1619
GoodOver: DRAW
5.649MI S HALL CL, Childress, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 268
GoodOver: DRAW
0.529MI E OF JCT FM1033, Childress, TX
Built 1962 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 268
GoodOver: DRAW
1.751MI E JCT FM 1033, Childress, TX
Built 1962 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 268
GoodOver: DRAW
2.611MI E JCT FM1033, Childress, TX
Built 1962 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 3031
GoodOver: DRAW
1.7 MI S OF FM 2042, Childress, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 233
FM 2638
GoodOver: SOUTH GROESBECK CREEK
3.363MI S US 287, Childress, TX
Built 1961 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 2042
GoodOver: DRAW
0.81 MI W OF US 62, Childress, TX
Built 1990 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 246
US 62
GoodOver: DRAW
2.29MI S OF US 287, Childress, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,210
SH 256
GoodOver: HORSE CREEK
7.37MI E HALL CL, Childress, TX
Built 1939 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,670
FM 94
GoodOver: DRAW
3.792MI W US 83, Childress, TX
Built 1954 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 124
CR V
GoodOver: DRAW
1.3 MI E OF FM 1033, Childress, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 25
CR BB
GoodOver: DRAW
0.1 MI W OF FM 1033, Childress, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10
US 62
GoodOver: RED RIVER
12.35MI S COLLINGSWORTH C, Childress, TX
Built 1994 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 7,940
US 83
GoodOver: BUCK CREEK
2.960MI S COLLINGSWORTH C, Childress, TX
Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,608
US 62
GoodOver: N SCATTERBRANCH CREEK
3.67MI S US 287, Childress, TX
Built 2002 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,210
US 62
GoodOver: MID SCATTERBRANCH CREEK
4.70MI S US 287, Childress, TX
Built 2002 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,051
US 287 NB
GoodOver: FM 164
JCT US 287 & FM164, Childress, TX
Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,760
US 287 SB
GoodOver: FM 164
JSCT US 287 & FM164, Childress, TX
Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,760
US 287 NB
GoodOver: Baylor Creek
4.660 MI S OF HALL C/L, Childress, TX
Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 9,865
FM 268
GoodOver: Draw
1 MI E of FM 2530, Childress, TX
Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 425
FM 268
GoodOver: Draw
1 MI E of FM 2530, Childress, TX
Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 425
FM 268
GoodOver: Draw
0.2 Miles East of FM 2884, Childress, TX
Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,063
FM 268
GoodOver: North Groesbeck Creek
0.1 Miles West of FM 19, Childress, TX
Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 129
FM 94
GoodOver: Draw
0.304 MI W OF US 62/83, Childress, TX
Built 2017 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 124
CR 25
GoodOver: DRAW
0.5 MI N OF US 287, Childress, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20
CR 20
GoodOver: NORTH GROESBECK CREEK
0.6 MI N OF US 287, Childress, TX
Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CR K
GoodOver: JONAH CREEK
2.5 MI E OF FM 1619, Childress, TX
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CR K
GoodOver: SALT CREEK
6.7 MI W OF US 83, Childress, TX
Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CR K
GoodOver: HORSE CREEK
4.5 MI W OF US 83, Childress, TX
Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20
CR H
GoodOver: DRAW
0.40 MI W OF FM 1619, Childress, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10
CR 22
GoodOver: Sand Creek
1.5 MI S of FM 1034, Childress, TX
Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 25
CR 20
GoodOver: SAND CREEK
10 FT S OF FM 1034, Childress, TX
Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
4th Street SW
GoodOver: Draw
0.2 Mi SW of FM 164, Childress, TX
Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50
US 287 SB
GoodOver: RUSTLERS CREEK
1.25MI S OF HALL CL, Childress, TX
Built 1969 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,240
US 287 NB
GoodOver: NORTH GROESBECK CREEK
2.741MI E OF CHILDRESS CT, Childress, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,940
US 287 NB
GoodOver: NORTH GROESBECK CREEK
5.029MI E OF CHILDRESS CT, Childress, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,940
US 287 NB
GoodOver: HORSE HEAD CREEK
5.279MI E CHILDRESS CTY L, Childress, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,940
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