Total bridges
19
Public highway bridges in Crane County
County profile · official public datasets
Crane County, TX
19 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 31.6% rated Good, 68.4% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 19
- Public bridges
- 31.6%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Crane 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 30%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 19
- public highway bridges
- 1943
- 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.
Crane County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Crane County ranks #75 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Crane County, Texas contains 19 public highway bridges. Roughly 31.6% are rated “Good,” 68.4% “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
31.6%
6 of 19 rated 7-9
Fair condition
68.4%
13 of 19 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 19 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#75 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 19 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 31.6% (6)
Fair 68.4% (13)
Poor 0% (0)
89.5% of Crane County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
17 of the 19 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 31.6% 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 Crane County's bridges were built
19 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1950s 2
1950–1959
2 bridges
- 1960s 1
1960–1969
1 bridges
- 1990s 2
1990–1999
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 14 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 73.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1943, 37 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Crane County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Crane County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1943 against a peer-group mean of 1976 is 33 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aransas County | 22 | 77.3% | 22.7% | 0% | 1997 |
| Martin County | 19 | 68.4% | 31.6% | 0% | 1984 |
| Crane County (this page) | 19 | 31.6% | 68.4% | 0% | 1943 |
| Briscoe County | 18 | 50% | 50% | 0% | 1964 |
| Hartley County | 17 | 47.1% | 52.9% | 0% | 1967 |
| Kenedy County | 17 | 82.4% | 17.6% | 0% | 1969 |
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 Crane 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 Crane County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (19 bridges here).
- Gilpin County, CO · 19 bridges
- Blaine County, NE · 19 bridges
- Thomas County, NE · 19 bridges
- Foster County, ND · 19 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1943 here).
- Bronx County, NY · avg 1945 · 311 bridges
- New York County, NY · avg 1945 · 247 bridges
- Hunterdon County, NJ · avg 1949 · 373 bridges
- Ciales County, PR · avg 1951 · 18 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (19)
US 385
FairOver: DRAW
5.85 MI N OF FM 1233, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 5,696
US 385
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
4.00 MI N OF FM 1233, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 5,696
US 385
FairOver: MAYFIELD DRAW
2.30 MI N OF SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 7,044
US 385
FairOver: DRAW
1.45 MI S OF SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,702
US 385
FairOver: DRAW
2.95 MI S OF SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,702
US 385
FairOver: DRAW
6.00 MI S OF SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,702
US 385
FairOver: DRAW
3.50 MI N OF UPTON CO LN, Crane, TX
Built 1959 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,923
US 385
FairOver: DRAW
4.1 MI S of SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,702
US 385
FairOver: DRAW
5.5 MI S OF SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,702
US 385
FairOver: DRAW
8.70 MI S OF SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,923
SH 329
FairOver: Landreth Draw
5.45 Mi W of US 385, Crane, TX
Built 1939 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,417
FM 1053
FairOver: DRAW
3.4 MI S OF IH 10, Crane, TX
Built 1999 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,860
FM 1053
FairOver: Pecos River
5.40 Mi S of SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1939 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,045
US 385
GoodOver: Draw
3.00 MI N of Upton C/L, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,923
US 385
GoodOver: DRAW
3.75 MI N OF UPTON CO LN, Crane, TX
Built 1967 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,923
US 385
GoodOver: DRAW
2.05 MI N OF UPTON C/L, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,923
US 385
GoodOver: DRAW
1.30 MI N OF UPTON C/L, Crane, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,923
US 385
GoodOver: DRAIN
0.90 MI S OF SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1993 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 5,055
US 385
GoodOver: Draw
10.17MI S OF SH 329, Crane, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,224
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