Total bridges
167
Public highway bridges in Hardin County
County profile · official public datasets
Hardin County, TX
167 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 61.1% rated Good, 38.3% Fair, 0.6% Poor.
- 167
- Public bridges
- 61.1%
- Good condition
- 0.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Hardin County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 43%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 167
- public highway bridges
- 1974
- 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.
Hardin County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hardin County ranks #107 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.6%). Hardin County, Texas contains 167 public highway bridges. Roughly 61.1% are rated “Good,” 38.3% “Fair,” and 0.6% “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
61.1%
102 of 167 rated 7-9
Fair condition
38.3%
64 of 167 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.6%
1 of 167 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#107 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 61.1% (102)
Fair 38.3% (64)
Poor 0.6% (1)
Hardin County's Poor-condition bridges carry 20 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 20 crossings a day against 4,538 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.
50.9% of Hardin County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
85 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 61.1% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CR 101 over FLAT CYPRESS CREEK, built 1938, carries 20 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 20 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Hardin County's bridges were built
167 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 4
1920–1929
4 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
17 bridges
- 1940s 11
1940–1949
11 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
20 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
27 bridges
- 1970s 11
1970–1979
11 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
17 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
31 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
25 bridges
- 2010s 4
2010–2019
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 31 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 18.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1974, 6 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Hardin County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Hardin County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.6% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1974 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is in line with the group.
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 |
| Freestone County | 167 | 38.3% | 60.5% | 1.2% | 1978 |
| Hardin County (this page) | 167 | 61.1% | 38.3% | 0.6% | 1974 |
| 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 Hardin 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 Hardin 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 (1974 here).
- Knox County, TN · avg 1974 · 588 bridges
- Summit County, OH · avg 1974 · 563 bridges
- Onondaga County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
- Orange County, NY · avg 1974 · 472 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (167)
W. PINESHADOWS DR.
FairOver: CLEMMONS GULLY
2.6 MI N OF SH 105, Hardin, TX
Built 2006 Load: 10.0 t ADT: 50
US 96
FairOver: DRAW
2.10 MI NE OF SH 327, Hardin, TX
Built 1965 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 16,651
US 69/FM 3513
FairOver: DRAW
2.75 MI N JEFFERSON C/L, Hardin, TX
Built 1966 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,050
US 96 BUS
FairOver: DRAIN
0.20 MI E OF FM 92, Hardin, TX
Built 1925 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,360
US 96 BUS & SH 327
FairOver: DRAIN
US 96 BUS @ SH 327, Hardin, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 15,280
US 69 NB
FairOver: BEAUMONT CREEK BRANCH
0.50 MI S OF FM 1003, Hardin, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,240
SH 105
FairOver: OUTFALL CHANNEL
3.45 MI E OF SH 326, Hardin, TX
Built 1939 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 7,982
SH 326
FairOver: DRAW
0.70 MI S OF SH 105, Hardin, TX
Built 1959 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,054
FM 92
FairOver: DRAW
1.10 MI NW OF FM 1122, Hardin, TX
Built 1939 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 7,897
FM 418
FairOver: DRAW
0.40 Mi E of FM 92, Hardin, TX
Built 1967 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 6,462
FM 418
FairOver: DRAW
1.00 MI W OF FM 92, Hardin, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,690
FM 421
FairOver: LOWER ROCKY CREEK
5.00 MI W OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1979 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,711
FM 421
FairOver: UPPER ROCKY CREEK
6.70 MI W OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1984 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,711
FM 1122
FairOver: MILL CREEK
1.15 MI W OF FM 92, Hardin, TX
Built 1952 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,097
FM 1293
FairOver: LITTLE PINE ISLAND BAYOU
0.10 MI NE OF FM 787, Hardin, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,224
FM 1293
FairOver: ONION WELL CREEK
3.4 MI NE OF FM 787, Hardin, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,039
FM 3063
FairOver: DRAIN
1.50 MI W OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,743
FM 418
FairOver: CYPRESS DRAIN
2.00 MI NE OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1948 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 2,899
FM 421
FairOver: DRAW
1.00 MI W OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1949 Load: 24.1 t ADT: 2,044
US 96 NB
FairOver: VILLAGE CREEK
4.55 MI N OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1949 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 11,204
US 69
FairOver: VILLAGE CREEK
1.70 MI S OF FM 3063, Hardin, TX
Built 1957 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 5,124
FIRETOWER RD
FairOver: DRY CREEK BRANCH
1.15 MI N OF FM 418, Hardin, TX
Built 1987 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 355
GORE STORE RD
FairOver: DRAIN DITCH
9.50 MI E OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
GORE STORE RD
FairOver: DRAIN DITCH
12.85 MI E OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 459
OLD BEAUMONT HWY
FairOver: VILLAGE CREEK BRANCH
0.80 MI S OF US 96, Hardin, TX
Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 680
OLD BEAUMONT HWY
FairOver: DRAIN
1.20 MI S OF US 96, Hardin, TX
Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 200
PINEWOOD BLVD
FairOver: COON MARSH
0.9 MI N OF SH 105, Hardin, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,420
OLD EVADALE RD
FairOver: BARNES BR
1.30 MI E OF US 96, Hardin, TX
Built 1935 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,360
KING PALMS WAY
FairOver: DRAIN
0.03 MI E OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 2009 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 400
FM 770
FairOver: MAYHOW CREEK
1.80 MI S OF SH 105, Hardin, TX
Built 1950 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 2,343
PR 74
FairOver: VILLAGE SLOUGH
1.00 MI E OF FM 3513, Hardin, TX
Built 1992 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 60
US 96 NB
FairOver: US 96 BUS & BNSF RR
0.70 MI NE OF SH 327, Hardin, TX
Built 1965 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 6,760
SH 326
FairOver: BLACK CREEK
4.20 MI N OF FM 421, Hardin, TX
Built 1939 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 1,744
SH 326
FairOver: LITTLE PINE ISLAND BAYOU
3.55 MI N OF SH 105, Hardin, TX
Built 1939 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 3,400
FM 418
FairOver: MILL CREEK
2.70 MI W OF FM 92, Hardin, TX
Built 1948 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 3,794
FM 418
FairOver: VILLAGE CREEK
2.50 MI W OF FM 1122, Hardin, TX
Built 1953 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 3,306
US 96
FairOver: WALTON CREEK
3.95 MI N OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1949 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 22,891
US 96 NB
FairOver: VILLAGE CREEK RELIEF
5.15 MI N OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1949 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 19,735
US 96 NB
FairOver: VILLAGE CREEK DRAW
2.35 MI SW OF SH 327, Hardin, TX
Built 1970 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 5,220
SH 326
FairOver: CYPRESS CREEK
1.00 MI W OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1939 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 3,547
US 96 BUS NB
FairOver: US 96
3.15 MI S OF SH 327, Hardin, TX
Built 1973 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 5,740
FM 421
FairOver: BLACK CREEK
2.70 MI E OF SH 326, Hardin, TX
Built 1955 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 1,328
US 96 NB
FairOver: NECHES RIVER RELIEF
0.20 MI W OF JASPER C/L, Hardin, TX
Built 1962 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 7,650
US 96 SB
FairOver: VILLAGE CREEK RELIEF
5.15 MI N OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1981 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 11,687
US 96 SB
FairOver: VILLAGE CREEK
4.55 MI N OF US 69, Hardin, TX
Built 1981 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 11,687
US 96 SB
FairOver: NECHES RIVER RELIEF
0.20 MI W OF JASPER C/L, Hardin, TX
Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 8,111
US 96 SB
FairOver: US 96 BUS & BNSF RR
0.70 MI NE OF SH 327, Hardin, TX
Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 16,095
US 69 SB
FairOver: PINE ISLAND BAYOU
0.00 MI N JEFFERSON C/L, Hardin, TX
Built 1963 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 43,065
US 69 NB
FairOver: PINE ISLAND BAYOU
0.00 MI N JEFFERSON C/L, Hardin, TX
Built 1953 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20,780
US 69
FairOver: COOKS LAKE RD
0.65 MI N JEFFERSON C/L, Hardin, TX
Built 1988 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 43,065
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