Total bridges
234
Public highway bridges in Eastland County
County profile · official public datasets
Eastland County, TX
234 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.6% rated Good, 58.1% Fair, 1.3% Poor.
- 234
- Public bridges
- 40.6%
- Good condition
- 1.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Eastland 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.
- 150th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 234
- public highway bridges
- 1965
- 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.
Eastland County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Eastland County ranks #150 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.3%). Eastland County, Texas contains 234 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.6% are rated “Good,” 58.1% “Fair,” and 1.3% “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
40.6%
95 of 234 rated 7-9
Fair condition
58.1%
136 of 234 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.3%
3 of 234 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#150 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 234 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40.6% (95)
Fair 58.1% (136)
Poor 1.3% (3)
Eastland County's Poor-condition bridges carry 14,060 vehicle crossings a day
That is 1.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,687 crossings a day against 3,052 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 234 of 234 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
74.4% of Eastland County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
174 of the 234 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 40.6% 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.
One structure carries 96.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
IH 20 EB over S FORK PALO PINTO CREEK, built 1959, carries 13,589 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 14,060 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Eastland County's bridges were built
234 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 10
1920–1929
10 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
35 bridges
- 1940s 15
1940–1949
15 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
50 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
41 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
36 bridges
- 1980s 5
1980–1989
5 bridges
- 1990s 16
1990–1999
16 bridges
- 2000s 10
2000–2009
10 bridges
- 2010s 8
2010–2019
8 bridges
- 2020s 8
2020–2029
8 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 50 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1965, 15 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Eastland County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Eastland County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.3% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1965 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 13 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nacogdoches County | 237 | 21.1% | 73.4% | 5.5% | 1978 |
| Palo Pinto County | 237 | 41.8% | 57.8% | 0.4% | 1962 |
| San Patricio County | 235 | 47.7% | 50.6% | 1.7% | 1978 |
| Montague County | 234 | 47% | 50.4% | 2.6% | 1985 |
| Eastland County (this page) | 234 | 40.6% | 58.1% | 1.3% | 1965 |
| Washington County | 232 | 38.8% | 57.8% | 3.4% | 1989 |
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 Eastland 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 Eastland County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (234 bridges here).
- Prince of Wales-Hyder County, AK · 234 bridges
- Morgan County, IL · 234 bridges
- Lyon County, MN · 234 bridges
- Jackson County, NC · 234 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1965 here).
- Windsor County, VT · avg 1965 · 483 bridges
- Bedford County, PA · avg 1965 · 417 bridges
- Crawford County, PA · avg 1965 · 399 bridges
- Harper County, KS · avg 1965 · 372 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (3)
FM 571
PoorOver: DRAW
1.70 MI N OF FM 2214, Eastland, TX
Built 1941 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 391
CR 336
PoorOver: COLONY CREEK
0.05 MI N OF FM 101, Eastland, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 80
IH 20 EB
PoorOver: S FORK PALO PINTO CREEK
0.05 MI W OF ERATH C/L, Eastland, TX
Built 1959 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 13,589
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