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Hardeman County, TX

77 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 31.2% rated Good, 62.3% Fair, 6.5% Poor.

77
Public bridges
31.2%
Good condition
6.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Hardeman 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.

244th
of 247 on Poor share
6.5%
Poor-condition share
77
public highway bridges
1966
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.

Hardeman County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hardeman County ranks #244 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 6.5%). Hardeman County, Texas contains 77 public highway bridges. Roughly 31.2% are rated “Good,” 62.3% “Fair,” and 6.5% “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

77

Public highway bridges in Hardeman County

Good condition

31.2%

24 of 77 rated 7-9

Fair condition

62.3%

48 of 77 rated 5-6

Poor condition

6.5%

5 of 77 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#244 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 77 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
31.2% (24)
Fair
62.3% (48)
Poor
6.5% (5)

Hardeman County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,219 vehicle crossings a day

That is 12.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 6.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,644 crossings a day against 660 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 77 of 77 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

71.4% of Hardeman County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

55 of the 77 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 31.2% 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 49.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US 287 SB over BNSF RR & LP 285 CONN, built 1970, carries 6,497 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 13,219 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Hardeman County's bridges were built

77 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1940s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 75 to 84 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1966, 14 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

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

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Hardeman County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 6.5% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1966 against a peer-group mean of 1961 is 5 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Hardeman County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Gray County 79 5.1%
San Jacinto County 78 0%
Shackelford County 78 1.3%
Hardeman County (this page) 77 6.5%
Concho County 75 0%
Presidio County 75 0%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (77 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1966 here).

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

All 77 Good 24 Fair 48 Poor 5

Good-condition bridges (24)

FM 104

Good

Over: DRAW

0.96 MI W OF FM 2363, Hardeman, TX

Built 1947 Load: 20.0 t ADT: 140

US 287

Good

Over: WANDERERS CREEK REL

0.71 MI W OF FM 91, Hardeman, TX

Built 1965 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 10,692

FM 104

Good

Over: DRAW

2.57 MI W OF FM 2363, Hardeman, TX

Built 1947 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 140

FM 104

Good

Over: DRAW

2.98 MI E OF COTTLE C/L, Hardeman, TX

Built 1947 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

FM 680

Good

Over: DRAW

1.22 MI N OF US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

FM 2006

Good

Over: DRAW

7.8 MI N OF US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 1962 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

FM 268

Good

Over: DRAW

1.21M E OF CHILDRESS C/L, Hardeman, TX

Built 1962 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

FM 2568

Good

Over: DRAW

1.03 MI E OF SH 6, Hardeman, TX

Built 1971 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 122

ROSS RD

Good

Over: DRAW

1.95 MI N OF FM 104, Hardeman, TX

Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 20

LP 285

Good

Over: BNSF RR

3.43 MI E OF US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 1995 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 242

PR 62

Good

Over: DEVILS CREEK

1.40 MI W OF HWY 6, Hardeman, TX

Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 103

FM 1166

Good

Over: N GROESBECK CREEK

5.12 MI N. OF US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

FM 268

Good

Over: N. Groesbeck Creek

2.0 MI N of US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,063

FM 268

Good

Over: DRAW

1.6 Mi N of US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,063

FM 268

Good

Over: DRAW

4.7 MI N of US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,063

HOLLIS RD

Good

Over: RED RIVER

2.8 MI N OF FM680, Hardeman, TX

Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

ARKANSAS RD

Good

Over: SOUTH GROESBECK CREEK

3.6 MI N OF LOOP 133, Hardeman, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

VESTAL RD

Good

Over: DRAW

4.5 MI N OF US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

VESTAL RD

Good

Over: NORTH GROESBECK CREEK

3.9 MI N OF US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20

Goodlett Road

Good

Over: North Groesbeck Creek

4.4 Mi N of US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10

WILSON RANCH RD

Good

Over: GROESBECK CREEK

0.95 MI S OF FM 2533, Hardeman, TX

Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

HYSON WELLS RD

Good

Over: SPRING CREEK

0.6 MI E OF FM 2640, Hardeman, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

EMERSON ROAD

Good

Over: WANDERERS CREEK

1.5 MI SE OF US 287, Hardeman, TX

Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

COPPER BREAKS RD

Good

Over: DEVILS CREEK

0.9 MI N OF SH 6, Hardeman, TX

Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

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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.