Total bridges
167
Public highway bridges in Freestone County
County profile · official public datasets
Freestone County, TX
167 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 38.3% rated Good, 60.5% Fair, 1.2% Poor.
- 167
- Public bridges
- 38.3%
- Good condition
- 1.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Freestone County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 144th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 167
- public highway bridges
- 1978
- 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.
Freestone County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Freestone County ranks #144 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.2%). Freestone County, Texas contains 167 public highway bridges. Roughly 38.3% are rated “Good,” 60.5% “Fair,” and 1.2% “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
38.3%
64 of 167 rated 7-9
Fair condition
60.5%
101 of 167 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.2%
2 of 167 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#144 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 167 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 38.3% (64)
Fair 60.5% (101)
Poor 1.2% (2)
Freestone County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,307 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 654 crossings a day against 2,121 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 167 of 167 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
57.5% of Freestone County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
96 of the 167 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 38.3% 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 56.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
FM 1580 over MIMS CREEK, built 1972, carries 742 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 1,307 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Freestone County's bridges were built
167 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 3
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1930s 12
1930–1939
12 bridges
- 1940s 5
1940–1949
5 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
20 bridges
- 1960s 11
1960–1969
11 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
46 bridges
- 1980s 11
1980–1989
11 bridges
- 1990s 11
1990–1999
11 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
21 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
23 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 46 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Texas average (1980).
How Freestone County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Freestone County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.2% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is 7 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson County | 170 | 50% | 48.8% | 1.2% | 1975 |
| Jones County | 168 | 60.7% | 37.5% | 1.8% | 1967 |
| Hardin County | 167 | 61.1% | 38.3% | 0.6% | 1974 |
| Freestone County (this page) | 167 | 38.3% | 60.5% | 1.2% | 1978 |
| Nolan County | 166 | 43.4% | 54.2% | 2.4% | 1964 |
| Red River County | 163 | 44.2% | 55.8% | 0% | 1975 |
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 Freestone 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 Freestone County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (167 bridges here).
- Cherokee County, AL · 167 bridges
- Garfield County, CO · 167 bridges
- Mitchell County, IA · 167 bridges
- Ness County, KS · 167 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1978 here).
- Orange County, CA · avg 1978 · 1,164 bridges
- Sumner County, KS · avg 1978 · 659 bridges
- Allen County, IN · avg 1978 · 613 bridges
- Livingston County, IL · avg 1978 · 579 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (167)
FM 489
FairOver: SANDERS CREEK
1.2 MI E OF FM 80, Freestone, TX
Built 1956 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 590
FM 489
GoodOver: IH 45 MLS
9.04 MI S OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 1970 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 1,060
US 84
GoodOver: HOLMAN CREEK
1.7 MI W OF FM 80, Freestone, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 5,568
US 84
GoodOver: SALINE BRANCH
4.1 MI S OF FM 489, Freestone, TX
Built 1925 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,149
SH 179
GoodOver: KEECHI CREEK
3.8 MI W OF IH 45, Freestone, TX
Built 1934 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,137
FM 80
GoodOver: DRY CREEK
1.7 MI SW OF SH 164, Freestone, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 440
IH 45 NB
GoodOver: DRY CREEK
0.40 MI NW OF FM 833, Freestone, TX
Built 1971 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 13,560
IH 45 WFR
GoodOver: CAROLINA CREEK TRIBUTARY
2.2 MI S OF FM 489, Freestone, TX
Built 1970 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 570
IH 45 WFR
GoodOver: DRAW
6.8 MI S OF FM 489, Freestone, TX
Built 1970 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 570
CR 172 (CHURCH ST)
GoodOver: IH 45
0.9 MI S OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 1970 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,500
CR 660
GoodOver: IH 45
5.6 MI S OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 1970 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,250
FM 2547
GoodOver: COTTONWOOD CREEK
1.9 MI S OF FM 833, Freestone, TX
Built 1965 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 554
FM 2547
GoodOver: SMALL CREEK
1.2 MI S OF FM 833, Freestone, TX
Built 1972 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 554
FM 833
GoodOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
1.2 MI W OF FM 2570, Freestone, TX
Built 1984 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 3285
GoodOver: BIG BROWN CREEK
2.1 MI E OF FM 2570, Freestone, TX
Built 2004 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 408
CR 235
GoodOver: BIG BROWN CREEK
4.05 MI SE OF FM 2570, Freestone, TX
Built 2011 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 760
S BATEMAN RD
GoodOver: MIMS CREEK
0.6 MI S OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 1996 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 200
CR 691
GoodOver: IH 45
7.5 MI S OF SH 179, Freestone, TX
Built 1970 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 1,100
CR 445
GoodOver: KEECHI CREEK BRANCH
1.9 MI S OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 2002 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 120
FM 833
GoodOver: IH 45
5.30 MI SE OF FM 80, Freestone, TX
Built 1971 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 200
CR 471
GoodOver: CEDAR CREEK
2.3 MI N OF FM 489, Freestone, TX
Built 2008 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 50
CR 1095
GoodOver: CANEY CREEK BRANCH
0.41 MI S OF FM 833, Freestone, TX
Built 2011 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 120
PW 5078
GoodOver: LITTLE BROWN CREEK
0.48 MI E OF PRK ENTRANCE, Freestone, TX
Built 1976 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 300
FM 1124
GoodOver: PIN OAK CREEK
0.80 MI SE OF FM 488, Freestone, TX
Built 1967 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 1,823
CR 1151
GoodOver: COTTONWOOD CREEK
0.3 MI W OF SH 75, Freestone, TX
Built 2008 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 40
US 287
GoodOver: YONKER PIN SLOUGH
1.05 MI E OF FM 488, Freestone, TX
Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,226
US 287
GoodOver: YONKER W RELIEF
0.80 MI E OF FM 488, Freestone, TX
Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,226
US 287
GoodOver: YONKER E RELIEF
1.50 MI E OF FM 488, Freestone, TX
Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,226
SH 75
GoodOver: TEHUACANA CREEK
0.50 MI SE OF FM 1073, Freestone, TX
Built 1994 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 397
SH 164
GoodOver: JEWETT MINE HAUL RD
3.3 MI E OF FM 80, Freestone, TX
Built 2002 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,890
FM 27
GoodOver: TEHUACANA CREEK
2.25 MI E OF FM 246, Freestone, TX
Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,013
FM 27
GoodOver: TEHUACANA CREEK RELIEF
2.4 MI E OF FM 246, Freestone, TX
Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,013
FM 488
GoodOver: COTTONWOOD CREEK
1.5 MI S OF FM 416, Freestone, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,700
IH 45 NB
GoodOver: KEECHI CREEK
4.8 MI S OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 1970 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 16,709
IH 45 WFR
GoodOver: WHITNEY BRANCH
5.9 MI S OF FM 489, Freestone, TX
Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 570
FM 1451
GoodOver: WASHBURN BRANCH
3.38 MI N OF FM 489, Freestone, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 576
FM 489
GoodOver: KEECHI CREEK
4.8 MI S OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 300
FM 1848
GoodOver: BROWNS CREEK
6.7 MI S OF FM 489, Freestone, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 352
CR 500
GoodOver: SMALL CREEK
1.89 MI E OF FM 1580, Freestone, TX
Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CR 691
GoodOver: CAROLINE CREEK
3.9 MI NW OF IH 45, Freestone, TX
Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CR 930
GoodOver: SMALL CREEK
1.03 MI NE OF FM 1367, Freestone, TX
Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 200
CR 890
GoodOver: PATTON CREEK BRANCH
1.1 MI S OF FM 1365, Freestone, TX
Built 2017 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 40
CR 1081
GoodOver: CEDAR CREEK
0.7 MI SE OF SH 14, Freestone, TX
Built 2004 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CR 1101
GoodOver: CANEY CREEK BRANCH
0.7 MI N OF FM 833, Freestone, TX
Built 2020 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30
CR 1041
GoodOver: TEHUACANA CREEK
2.7 MI SE OF FM 246, Freestone, TX
Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30
CR 280
GoodOver: GASKIN BRANCH
2.5 MI NE OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 40
CR 300
GoodOver: SMALL CREEK
1.4 MI S OF US 84, Freestone, TX
Built 2004 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 90
CR 510
GoodOver: SMALL CREEK
2.5 MI E OF SH 75, Freestone, TX
Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 27
CR 536
GoodOver: BIG BROWN CREEK FEEDER
0.3 MI. S. of FCR 540, Freestone, TX
Built 2021 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
PR A
GoodOver: LINDSLEY SLOUGH
2.3 MI E OF FM 488, Freestone, TX
Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50
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