Total bridges
73
Public highway bridges in Dickens County
County profile · official public datasets
Dickens County, TX
73 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 38.4% rated Good, 60.3% Fair, 1.4% Poor.
- 73
- Public bridges
- 38.4%
- Good condition
- 1.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Dickens 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.
- 152nd
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 73
- 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.
Dickens County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Dickens County ranks #152 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.4%). Dickens County, Texas contains 73 public highway bridges. Roughly 38.4% are rated “Good,” 60.3% “Fair,” and 1.4% “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
38.4%
28 of 73 rated 7-9
Fair condition
60.3%
44 of 73 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.4%
1 of 73 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#152 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 73 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 38.4% (28)
Fair 60.3% (44)
Poor 1.4% (1)
Dickens County's Poor-condition bridges carry 50 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 50 crossings a day against 410 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 73 of 73 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
64.4% of Dickens County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
47 of the 73 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 38.4% 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
CR 404 over DUCK CREEK, built 1927, carries 50 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 50 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Dickens County's bridges were built
73 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
8 bridges
- 1940s 5
1940–1949
5 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
13 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
19 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
8 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
11 bridges
- 2010s 7
2010–2019
7 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 26% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 9 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Dickens County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Dickens County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.4% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1962 is 9 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concho County | 75 | 61.3% | 38.7% | 0% | 1963 |
| Presidio County | 75 | 41.3% | 58.7% | 0% | 1946 |
| Dimmit County | 74 | 63.5% | 36.5% | 0% | 1961 |
| Franklin County | 74 | 31.1% | 64.9% | 4.1% | 1976 |
| Dickens County (this page) | 73 | 38.4% | 60.3% | 1.4% | 1971 |
| Zavala County | 72 | 52.8% | 45.8% | 1.4% | 1965 |
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 Dickens 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 Dickens County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (73 bridges here).
- Stone County, AR · 73 bridges
- Levy County, FL · 73 bridges
- Putnam County, FL · 73 bridges
- Dade County, GA · 73 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 bridges (73)
SH 70
FairOver: DRAW
8.00 MI N OF US 82, Dickens, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 388
SH 70
FairOver: DRAW
6.50 MI N OF US 82, Dickens, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 388
SH 70
FairOver: DRAW
4.30 MI N OF US 82, Dickens, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 388
SH 70
FairOver: DRAW
2.50 MI W OF SH 208, Dickens, TX
Built 1935 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 732
SH 70
FairOver: SAGE DRAW
0.6 MI W OF FM 3294, Dickens, TX
Built 1935 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 393
SH 70
FairOver: DUCK CREEK RELIEF
2.05 MI W OF SH 208, Dickens, TX
Built 1981 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 732
SH 70
FairOver: WILSON DRAW
1.05 MI E OF SH 208, Dickens, TX
Built 1981 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 393
US 82
FairOver: HOBBLE SCOBBLE CANYON
3.45 MI W OF SH 70, Dickens, TX
Built 1943 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,899
US 82
FairOver: DRAW
5.45 MI W OF SH 70, Dickens, TX
Built 1941 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,899
US 82
FairOver: DRAW
11.1 MI W OF JCT SH 70, Dickens, TX
Built 1941 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,881
FM 836
FairOver: HACKBERRY DRAW
2.35 MI NW OF FM 2565, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 202
FM 836
FairOver: DRAW
2.25 MI NW OF FM 2565, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 202
FM 836
FairOver: DRAW
0.20 MI NW OF FM 2565, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 202
FM 836
FairOver: DRAW
4.90 MI NW OF FM 2794, Dickens, TX
Built 1963 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 290
FM 836
FairOver: DRAW
0.25 MI E OF FM 2794, Dickens, TX
Built 1941 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 723
FM 261
FairOver: SPADE DRAW
1.10 MI S OF LOOP 21, Dickens, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 165
FM 265
FairOver: WASHOUT CREEK
0.90 MI S OF FM 193, Dickens, TX
Built 1954 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 193
FairOver: DRAW
9.8 MI E OF FM 265, Dickens, TX
Built 1959 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 2565
FairOver: DRAW
0.9 MI E OF FM 836, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 2565
FairOver: DRAW
2.25 MI W OF FM 1868, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 2565
FairOver: DRAW
2.05 MI W OF FM 1868, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 2565
FairOver: DRAW
1.90 MI W OF FM 1868, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
US 82
FairOver: DRAW
4.60 MI E OF FM 2941, Dickens, TX
Built 1936 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,777
CR 228
FairOver: DRAW
2.60 MI W OF FM 265, Dickens, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 25
CR 384
FairOver: DUCK CREEK
0.80 MI E OF SH 70, Dickens, TX
Built 1965 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
FM 2565
FairOver: DOCKUM CREEK
2.85 MI W OF FM 1868, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 100
SH 70
FairOver: DOCKUM CREEK
10.0 MI S OF US 82, Dickens, TX
Built 1962 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 1,062
US 82 EB
FairOver: BEEF HOLLOW CREEK
2.90 MI W OF FM 2941, Dickens, TX
Built 1967 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 895
US 82 EB
FairOver: S. WICHITA RIVER
3.85 MI E OF FM 2941, Dickens, TX
Built 1967 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 827
US 82 EB
FairOver: DAVIDSON CREEK
6.25 MI E OF FM 2941, Dickens, TX
Built 1967 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 827
US 82 EB
FairOver: LITTLE CROTON CREEK
3.00 MI E OF FM 265, Dickens, TX
Built 1967 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 895
SH 70
FairOver: WASHOUT CREEK
6.25 MI N OF US 82, Dickens, TX
Built 1987 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 388
SH 70
FairOver: COTTONWOOD CREEK
9.25 MI N OF US 82, Dickens, TX
Built 1987 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 388
US 82 WB
FairOver: DAVIDSON CREEK
6.25 MI E OF FM 2941, Dickens, TX
Built 1984 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 950
FM 193
FairOver: COTTONWOOD CREEK
2.30 MI E. OF SH 70, Dickens, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
FM 265
FairOver: LITTLE CROTON CREEK
1.40 MI N. OF US 82, Dickens, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
FM 193
FairOver: NORTH WICHITA RIVER
10.7 MI E OF FM 265, Dickens, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
FM 193
FairOver: NORTH WICHITA RIVER
12.9 MI E OF FM 265, Dickens, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
FM 1868
FairOver: COTTONWOOD CREEK
1.0 MI N. OF FM 2565, Dickens, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
SH 208
FairOver: DUCK CREEK
0.80 MI S OF SH 70, Dickens, TX
Built 2011 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 252
CR 452
FairOver: HOBBLE SCOBBLE CANYON
1.20 MI W OF US 82, Dickens, TX
Built 1950 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30
FM 2794
FairOver: RED MUD CREEK
3.60 MI W OF FM 1081, Dickens, TX
Built 1968 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 163
SH 70
FairOver: DUCK CREEK
1.70 MI W OF SH 208, Dickens, TX
Built 1981 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 732
US 82 WB
FairOver: DUCK CREEK
3.55 MI W OF SH 70, Dickens, TX
Built 1971 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,071
SH 70
GoodOver: DRY DUCK CREEK
0.8 MI E OF FM 3294, Dickens, TX
Built 1935 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 395
US 82
GoodOver: J2 CREEK
0.65 MI E OF SH 70, Dickens, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,942
US 82
GoodOver: DRAW
0.85 MI E OF FM 265, Dickens, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,830
FM 836
GoodOver: DRAW
4.10 MI NW OF FM 2565, Dickens, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 201
FM 193
GoodOver: WASHOUT CREEK
0.75 MI E OF FM 265, Dickens, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 193
GoodOver: DRAW
5.75 MI E OF FM 265, Dickens, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
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