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Coryell County, TX

204 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 54.4% rated Good, 45.1% Fair, 0.5% Poor.

204
Public bridges: 54.4%
Good condition: 0.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Coryell County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 41%
lowest Poor share in state: 0.5%
Poor-condition share: 204
public highway bridges: 1971
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.

Coryell County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Coryell County ranks #102 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.5%). Coryell County, Texas contains 204 public highway bridges. Roughly 54.4% are rated “Good,” 45.1% “Fair,” and 0.5% “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

204

Public highway bridges in Coryell County

Good condition

54.4%

111 of 204 rated 7-9

Fair condition

45.1%

92 of 204 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.5%

1 of 204 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#102 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 204 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

54.4% (111)

Fair

45.1% (92)

Poor

0.5% (1)

Coryell County's Poor-condition bridges carry 150 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 150 crossings a day against 3,635 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 204 of 204 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

61.8% of Coryell County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

126 of the 204 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 54.4% 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.

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

WEST RANGETNK RD over HOUSE CK, built 1950, carries 150 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 150 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1900s

1
1920s

2
1930s

22
1940s

28
1950s

44
1960s

28
1970s

6
1980s

5
1990s

17
2000s

15
2010s

28
2020s

8

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 44 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 9 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Coryell County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.5% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 7 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Coryell County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Comanche County	212	45.3%	52.8%	1.9%	1974
Polk County	210	48.1%	46.2%	5.7%	1983
Caldwell County	206	62.1%	36.4%	1.5%	1986
Coryell County (this page)	204	54.4%	45.1%	0.5%	1971
Erath County	198	53.5%	46%	0.5%	1973
Cherokee County	196	26%	74%	0%	1974

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (204 bridges here).

Greene County, AL · 204 bridges
Flathead County, MT · 204 bridges
Pembina County, ND · 204 bridges
Okfuskee County, OK · 204 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1971 here).

Wayne County, MI · avg 1971 · 1,026 bridges
Baltimore County, MD · avg 1971 · 783 bridges
Washington County, PA · avg 1971 · 655 bridges
Linn County, OR · avg 1971 · 566 bridges

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

All 204 Good 111 Fair 92 Poor 1

All bridges (204)

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Coryell County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Coryell County's Poor-condition bridges carry 150 vehicle crossings a day

61.8% of Coryell County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

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

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (204)

CR 274

CR 314 (NEFF PARK)

CR 667(BULL BR RD)

FM 182

FM 580

BELL TOWER RD

FM 1829

FM 183

COLD SPRINGS ROAD

US 84

US 84

US 84

SH 36

SH 36

SH 36

SH 36

SH 36

US 190

US 190

US 190

SH 236

FM 116

FM 116

FM 116

FM 116

FM 116

FM 184

FM 580

FM 580

FM 1829

FM 1829

FM 217

FM 217

FM 217

FM 217

FM 107

FM 107

FM 107

FM 107

FM 107

FM 2671

FM 2955

SH 36

US 190 BUS

CR 106

CR 239

CR 267

SH 36

FM 580

FM 931

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