Total bridges
121
Public highway bridges in Duval County
County profile · official public datasets
Duval County, TX
121 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 46.3% rated Good, 52.9% Fair, 0.8% Poor.
- 121
- Public bridges
- 46.3%
- Good condition
- 0.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Duval 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.
- 127th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 0.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 121
- public highway bridges
- 1955
- 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.
Duval County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Duval County ranks #127 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.8%). Duval County, Texas contains 121 public highway bridges. Roughly 46.3% are rated “Good,” 52.9% “Fair,” and 0.8% “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
46.3%
56 of 121 rated 7-9
Fair condition
52.9%
64 of 121 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.8%
1 of 121 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#127 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 121 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 46.3% (56)
Fair 52.9% (64)
Poor 0.8% (1)
Duval County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,210 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,210 crossings a day against 1,189 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 121 of 121 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
91.7% of Duval County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
111 of the 121 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 46.3% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
S TOVAR ST over SAN DIEGO CREEK, built 1960, carries 1,210 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 1,210 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Duval County's bridges were built
121 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 10
1920–1929
10 bridges
- 1930s 13
1930–1939
13 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
25 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
25 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
35 bridges
- 1970s 4
1970–1979
4 bridges
- 1980s 2
1980–1989
2 bridges
- 1990s 2
1990–1999
2 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2010s 4
2010–2019
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 35 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1955, 25 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Duval County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Duval County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.8% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1955 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is 16 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burleson County | 122 | 50% | 46.7% | 3.3% | 1974 |
| Maverick County | 122 | 57.4% | 41.8% | 0.8% | 1975 |
| Madison County | 121 | 28.1% | 68.6% | 3.3% | 1969 |
| Duval County (this page) | 121 | 46.3% | 52.9% | 0.8% | 1955 |
| Wood County | 120 | 40.8% | 57.5% | 1.7% | 1972 |
| Hamilton County | 119 | 37.8% | 59.7% | 2.5% | 1963 |
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 Duval 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 Duval County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (121 bridges here).
- Sutter County, CA · 121 bridges
- Gadsden County, FL · 121 bridges
- Emanuel County, GA · 121 bridges
- Union County, LA · 121 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1955 here).
- Beadle County, SD · avg 1955 · 152 bridges
- Boone County, IA · avg 1955 · 135 bridges
- Bath County, VA · avg 1955 · 73 bridges
- Hamilton County, KS · avg 1955 · 68 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (64)
FM 2295
FairOver: AGUA POQUITA CREEK
6.65 MI E OF SH 16, Duval, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
FM 2359
FairOver: SAN JOSE CREEK
1.95 MI E OF SH 16, Duval, TX
Built 1972 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
FM 3196
FairOver: ROSITA CREEK
1.85 MI S OF SH 44, Duval, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 830
FM 3196
FairOver: DRAW
4.70 MI S OF SH 44, Duval, TX
Built 1955 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 830
PEARSON STREET
FairOver: DRAW
0.15 MI W of WHITE AVE, Duval, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
WHITE AVE
FairOver: DRAW
0.15 MI S of US 59, Duval, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 250
VICTORIA ST
FairOver: SAN DIEGO CREEK
0.45 MI S OF SH 44, Duval, TX
Built 1999 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,600
SH 44
FairOver: TARANCAHUAS CREEK
5.55 MI SE OF US 59, Duval, TX
Built 1939 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 2,982
SH 359
FairOver: SAN DIEGO CREEK
0.35 MI S OF SH 44, Duval, TX
Built 1927 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 7,085
SH 359
FairOver: AGUA POQUITA CREEK
4.40 MI SW OF FM 2295, Duval, TX
Built 1927 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 1,014
SH 359
FairOver: N CONCEPCION CR
6.25 MI SW OF FM 2295, Duval, TX
Built 1927 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 1,014
SH 16
FairOver: GOVERNMENT WELLS CREEK
3.15 M N OF US 59, Duval, TX
Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,234
SH 339
FairOver: DRAW
2.3 MI SE OF SH 16, Duval, TX
Built 2002 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 412
SH 359
FairOver: KCS RR
3.45 MI SW OF FM 716, Duval, TX
Built 1964 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 1,295
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