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Franklin County, TX

74 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 31.1% rated Good, 64.9% Fair, 4.1% Poor.

74
Public bridges
31.1%
Good condition
4.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Franklin County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

233rd
of 247 on Poor share
4.1%
Poor-condition share
74
public highway bridges
1976
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.

Franklin County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Franklin County ranks #233 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.1%). Franklin County, Texas contains 74 public highway bridges. Roughly 31.1% are rated “Good,” 64.9% “Fair,” and 4.1% “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

74

Public highway bridges in Franklin County

Good condition

31.1%

23 of 74 rated 7-9

Fair condition

64.9%

48 of 74 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.1%

3 of 74 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#233 of 247

Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 74 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
31.1% (23)
Fair
64.9% (48)
Poor
4.1% (3)

Franklin County's Poor-condition bridges carry 23,660 vehicle crossings a day

That is 7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 7,887 crossings a day against 991 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 74 of 74 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

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

37 of the 74 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 31.1% 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 99.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CO RD NE 2080 over IH 30 ML, built 1963, carries 23,590 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 23,660 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Franklin County's bridges were built

74 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 20 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1976) matches the Texas average (1980).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Franklin County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.1% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1976 against a peer-group mean of 1961 is 15 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Franklin County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Concho County 75 0%
Presidio County 75 0%
Dimmit County 74 0%
Franklin County (this page) 74 4.1%
Dickens County 73 1.4%
Zavala County 72 1.4%

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 Franklin 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 Franklin County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (74 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1976 here).

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 74 Good 23 Fair 48 Poor 3

Good-condition bridges (23)

FM 1448

Good

Over: INDIAN CREEK

1.3 MI W OF FM 115, Franklin, TX

Built 1990 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 748

US 67

Good

Over: RIPLEY CREEK DRAW

5.1 MI E OF SH 37, Franklin, TX

Built 1936 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,779

FM 900

Good

Over: HUGGINS CREEK

2.2 MI W OF SH 37, Franklin, TX

Built 1990 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 662

FM 115

Good

Over: STOUTS CRK

1.2 MI S OF FM 3007, Franklin, TX

Built 1975 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,423

FM 3007

Good

Over: ANDYS CREEK

1.3 MI S OF FM 21, Franklin, TX

Built 1977 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,117

FM 115

Good

Over: PANTHER CREEK

5.2 MI S OF IH 30, Franklin, TX

Built 1970 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,360

FM 3122

Good

Over: BEAR CREEK

0.6 MI E OF FM 115, Franklin, TX

Built 1971 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 851

CR SE 4130

Good

Over: Blundell Creek Trib

1.15 MI S OF IH 30, Franklin, TX

Built 1988 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 350

CR SE 4130

Good

Over: Blundell Creek

1.3 MI S OF IH 30, Franklin, TX

Built 1988 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 350

CR NW 1090

Good

Over: Mitchell Creek

3.5 MI S OF FM 71, Franklin, TX

Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30

CR NW 1010

Good

Over: Denton Creek

O.25 MI SW OF SH 67, Franklin, TX

Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CR NW 1012

Good

Over: Denton Creek

0.8 MI N OF IH 30, Franklin, TX

Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10

CR NW 1019

Good

Over: BIG CREEK

4.0 MI NW OF SH 37, Franklin, TX

Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 70

CR NW 1050

Good

Over: Cobb Jones Creek

2.7 MI S OF FM 71, Franklin, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 140

CR SE 4260

Good

Over: Panther Creek

0.5 MI SOUTH OF FM 3122, Franklin, TX

Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 40

CR SW 3030

Good

Over: Big Creek

0.4 MI W OF CR SW 3010, Franklin, TX

Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

CR SW 3250

Good

Over: Trib Big Cypress Creek

0.7 MI EAST OF FM 3019, Franklin, TX

Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 114

SH 37

Good

Over: SULPHUR RIV REL 1

1.4 MI N OF FM 71, Franklin, TX

Built 1973 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 1,699

SH 37

Good

Over: SULPHUR RIV. REL #3

1.0 MI N OF FM 71, Franklin, TX

Built 1976 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,699

SH 37

Good

Over: WHITE OAK CREEK REL #2

7.7 MI N OF IH 30, Franklin, TX

Built 1981 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,228

SH 37

Good

Over: WHITE OAK CREEK

8.1 MI N OF IH 30, Franklin, TX

Built 1981 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,228

SH 37

Good

Over: WHITE OAK CREEK REL #3

8.4 MI N OF IH 30, Franklin, TX

Built 1981 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,228

SH 37

Good

Over: BIG CYPRESS CREEK

9.8 MI S OF IH 30, Franklin, TX

Built 1957 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,520

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.