Total bridges
5
Public highway bridges in Dawson County
County profile · official public datasets
Dawson County, TX
5 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40% rated Good, 60% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 5
- Public bridges
- 40%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Dawson County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.
- Top 34%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 5
- public highway bridges
- 1982
- 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.
Dawson County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Dawson County ranks #85 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Dawson County, Texas contains 5 public highway bridges. Roughly 40% are rated “Good,” 60% “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
40%
2 of 5 rated 7-9
Fair condition
60%
3 of 5 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 5 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#85 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 5 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40% (2)
Fair 60% (3)
Poor 0% (0)
60% of Dawson County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
3 of the 5 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 40% 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 Dawson County's bridges were built
5 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 2 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 40% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1982) matches the Texas average (1980).
How Dawson County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Dawson County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 14 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castro County | 10 | 90% | 10% | 0% | 1950 |
| Floyd County | 10 | 60% | 40% | 0% | 1967 |
| Lynn County | 5 | 0% | 100% | 0% | 1968 |
| Terry County | 5 | 40% | 60% | 0% | 1946 |
| Winkler County | 5 | 80% | 20% | 0% | 2011 |
| Dawson County (this page) | 5 | 40% | 60% | 0% | 1982 |
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 Dawson County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Poor-condition bridges (0)
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.