Total bridges
456
Public highway bridges in Hunt County
County profile · official public datasets
Hunt County, TX
456 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 51.8% rated Good, 47.6% Fair, 0.7% Poor.
- 456
- Public bridges
- 51.8%
- Good condition
- 0.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Hunt County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 45%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 456
- public highway bridges
- 1981
- 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.
Hunt County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hunt County ranks #112 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.7%). Hunt County, Texas contains 456 public highway bridges. Roughly 51.8% are rated “Good,” 47.6% “Fair,” and 0.7% “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
51.8%
236 of 456 rated 7-9
Fair condition
47.6%
217 of 456 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.7%
3 of 456 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#112 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 456 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 51.8% (236)
Fair 47.6% (217)
Poor 0.7% (3)
Hunt County's Poor-condition bridges carry 3,157 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,052 crossings a day against 3,453 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 456 of 456 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
43.9% of Hunt County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
200 of the 456 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 51.8% 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 76.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
Shelby Ave over Farber Creek Branch, built 1935, carries 2,410 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 3,157 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Hunt County's bridges were built
456 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 7
1920–1929
7 bridges
- 1930s 10
1930–1939
10 bridges
- 1940s 17
1940–1949
17 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
91 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
57 bridges
- 1970s 30
1970–1979
30 bridges
- 1980s 35
1980–1989
35 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
52 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
103 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
44 bridges
- 2020s 10
2020–2029
10 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 103 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Texas average (1980).
How Hunt County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Hunt County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.7% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is 8 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pecos County | 470 | 62.8% | 36.8% | 0.4% | 1962 |
| Jefferson County | 457 | 48.4% | 50.1% | 1.5% | 1977 |
| Hunt County (this page) | 456 | 51.8% | 47.6% | 0.7% | 1981 |
| Kaufman County | 452 | 46.5% | 52.4% | 1.1% | 1976 |
| Smith County | 427 | 47.1% | 51.5% | 1.4% | 1981 |
| Taylor County | 419 | 45.1% | 54.2% | 0.7% | 1967 |
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 Hunt 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 Hunt County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (456 bridges here).
- Luzerne County, PA · 457 bridges
- Woodbury County, IA · 455 bridges
- Denver County, CO · 458 bridges
- Hamilton County, IN · 454 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1981 here).
- Franklin County, OH · avg 1981 · 922 bridges
- Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
- Montgomery County, OH · avg 1981 · 632 bridges
- McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (217)
FM36
FairOver: ELM BR
11.0 MI N JCT US380&FM36, Hunt, TX
Built 1955 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 466
FM 35
FairOver: BEAR PEN CREEK
2.0 MI W JCT SH276 & FM35, Hunt, TX
Built 1991 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 5,827
SH 276 WB
FairOver: S FORK SABINE RIVER REL
9.7 MI W JCT SH34&SH276, Hunt, TX
Built 1967 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 6,880
SH 276 WB
FairOver: BEAR PEN CRK
7.7 MILES WEST OF SH 34, Hunt, TX
Built 1967 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 3,419
FM 1568
FairOver: DUNBAR CREEK
1.6MI SJCT SH50/24&FM1568, Hunt, TX
Built 1980 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,092
SH11
FairOver: MIDDLE SULPHUR RIV
8.0MI N JCT SH24 AND SH11, Hunt, TX
Built 1959 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,001
SH11
FairOver: MIDDLE SULPHUR REL
7.7MI N JCT SH24 AND SH11, Hunt, TX
Built 1959 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,176
SH11
FairOver: MIDDLE SULPHUR RIV
1.1MI N JCT SH24 AND SH11, Hunt, TX
Built 1959 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,327
SH11
FairOver: MIDDLE SULPHUR REL
0.9MI N JCT SH24 AND SH11, Hunt, TX
Built 1959 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,327
CR 4817
FairOver: Short Creek
2.5 Mi S of Wolfe City, Hunt, TX
Built 2001 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 50
CR 3115
FairOver: Timber Creek
7.7 Mi SE of Greenville, Hunt, TX
Built 1996 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 336
CR 3214
FairOver: Lake Fork Creek
3 Mi NE of Lone Oak, Hunt, TX
Built 1996 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 70
CR 3408
FairOver: Dunn Creek
1.9 Mi W of FM 513, Hunt, TX
Built 1995 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 100
CR 3504
FairOver: Branch of Little Creek
1.75 Mi E of SH 34, Hunt, TX
Built 1996 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 240
CR 3613
FairOver: Walnut Cove
5.5 Mi E of Quinlan, Hunt, TX
Built 1997 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 769
CR 2208
FairOver: Caddo Creek
8.2 Mi S of Greenville, Hunt, TX
Built 1995 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 131
CR 3701
FairOver: Lake Tawakoni Tributary
0.1 Mi E of SH 34, Hunt, TX
Built 1995 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 708
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