Total bridges
308
Public highway bridges in Falls County
County profile · official public datasets
Falls County, TX
308 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 43.5% rated Good, 54.2% Fair, 2.3% Poor.
- 308
- Public bridges
- 43.5%
- Good condition
- 2.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Falls County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- 189th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 2.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 308
- public highway bridges
- 1988
- 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.
Falls County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Falls County ranks #189 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.3%). Falls County, Texas contains 308 public highway bridges. Roughly 43.5% are rated “Good,” 54.2% “Fair,” and 2.3% “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
43.5%
134 of 308 rated 7-9
Fair condition
54.2%
167 of 308 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.3%
7 of 308 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#189 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 308 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 43.5% (134)
Fair 54.2% (167)
Poor 2.3% (7)
Falls County's Poor-condition bridges carry 396 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 57 crossings a day against 2,346 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 308 of 308 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
33.1% of Falls County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
102 of the 308 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 43.5% 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 25.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CR 325 over HOG CREEK #2064, built 2000, carries 100 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 396 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Falls County's bridges were built
308 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 2
1910–1919
2 bridges
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s 18
1940–1949
18 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
52 bridges
- 1960s 26
1960–1969
26 bridges
- 1970s 16
1970–1979
16 bridges
- 1980s 19
1980–1989
19 bridges
- 1990s 25
1990–1999
25 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
66 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
71 bridges
- 2020s 11
2020–2029
11 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2010s, when 71 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 5 to 14 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1988, 8 years newer than the Texas average of 1980.
How Falls County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Falls County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.3% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1988 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 10 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowie County | 331 | 46.5% | 52.9% | 0.6% | 1975 |
| Tom Green County | 310 | 61% | 38.4% | 0.6% | 1971 |
| Falls County (this page) | 308 | 43.5% | 54.2% | 2.3% | 1988 |
| Fannin County | 307 | 44.3% | 50.2% | 5.5% | 1984 |
| Lamar County | 307 | 46.6% | 50.5% | 2.9% | 1984 |
| Guadalupe County | 296 | 58.8% | 41.2% | 0% | 1977 |
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 Falls 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 Falls County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (308 bridges here).
- Rockingham County, NH · 308 bridges
- Surry County, NC · 308 bridges
- Kittitas County, WA · 308 bridges
- Mississippi County, AR · 309 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1988 here).
- Grant County, OK · avg 1988 · 476 bridges
- Loudoun County, VA · avg 1988 · 442 bridges
- Licking County, OH · avg 1988 · 439 bridges
- Vernon County, MO · avg 1988 · 401 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (7)
CR 162
PoorOver: HOGPEN CRK #12
1.30 MI E OF FM 1240, Falls, TX
Built 1990 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 55
CR 109
PoorOver: SANDY CREEK #37
0.95 MI SW OF SH 6, Falls, TX
Built 1985 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 55
CR 462
PoorOver: DEER CREEK #2005
1.95 MI NW OF FM 935, Falls, TX
Built 2005 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 50
CR 325
PoorOver: HOG CREEK #2064
0.25 MI SW OF FM 2027, Falls, TX
Built 2000 Load: 16.3 t ADT: 100
CR 118
PoorOver: BRUSHY CREEK #33
1.10 MI W OF FM 2603, Falls, TX
Built 1987 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 55
CR 256
PoorOver: COPPERAS CRK #83
2.45 MI NW OF FM 2413, Falls, TX
Built 1988 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 26
CR 408
PoorOver: PERRY CREEK #2054
2.20 MI SW OF FM 2027, Falls, TX
Built 1999 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 55
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