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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.

Total bridges

234

Public highway bridges in Eastland County

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.

1920s

10
1930s

35
1940s

15
1950s

50
1960s

41
1970s

36
1980s

5
1990s

16
2000s

10
2010s

8
2020s

8

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.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Eastland County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
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.

All 234 Good 95 Fair 136 Poor 3

All bridges (234)

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Eastland County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Eastland County's Poor-condition bridges carry 14,060 vehicle crossings a day

74.4% of Eastland County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 96.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Eastland County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (234)

IH 20 AND N & S FR

LOOP 254

US 183

US 183

SH 36

SH 6

SH 16

US 183

US 183

SH 36

SH 36

SH 36

SH 36

FM 8

FM 571

FM 571

FM 101

FM 717

FM 2461

FM 569

FM 569

FM 569

FM 1027

FM 2214

FM 1853

FM 2526

FM 2563

SH 206

CR 294

CR 474

CR 575

SH 36

FM 587

IH 20 WB

SH 16

FM 8

IH 20 EB

IH 20 WB

IH 20 S FR

IH 20 N FR

IH 20 WB

US 183

IH 20 WB

FM 8

IH 20 Rest Area

SH 6

US 183

SH 16

FM 571

FM 571

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