Total bridges
50
Public highway bridges in Hutchinson County
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Hutchinson County, TX
50 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 28% rated Good, 72% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 50
- Public bridges
- 28%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Hutchinson County pairs a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 21%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 50
- public highway bridges
- 1968
- 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.
Hutchinson County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hutchinson County ranks #52 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Hutchinson County, Texas contains 50 public highway bridges. Roughly 28% are rated “Good,” 72% “Fair,” and 0% “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
28%
14 of 50 rated 7-9
Fair condition
72%
36 of 50 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 50 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#52 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 50 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 28% (14)
Fair 72% (36)
Poor 0% (0)
60% of Hutchinson County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
30 of the 50 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 28% 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.
When Hutchinson County's bridges were built
50 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
9 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
15 bridges
- 1960s 3
1960–1969
3 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
6 bridges
- 1990s 4
1990–1999
4 bridges
- 2000s 5
2000–2009
5 bridges
- 2010s 4
2010–2019
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 15 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 30% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1968, 12 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Hutchinson County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Hutchinson County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1968 against a peer-group mean of 1962 is 6 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garza County | 51 | 27.5% | 72.5% | 0% | 1962 |
| Knox County | 51 | 33.3% | 64.7% | 2% | 1971 |
| Irion County | 50 | 44% | 54% | 2% | 1944 |
| Oldham County | 50 | 42% | 58% | 0% | 1963 |
| Stonewall County | 50 | 38% | 62% | 0% | 1970 |
| Hutchinson County (this page) | 50 | 28% | 72% | 0% | 1968 |
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 Hutchinson 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 Hutchinson County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (50 bridges here).
- Oglethorpe County, GA · 50 bridges
- Randolph County, GA · 50 bridges
- Putnam County, IL · 50 bridges
- Simpson County, KY · 50 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1968 here).
- Montgomery County, PA · avg 1968 · 828 bridges
- San Joaquin County, CA · avg 1968 · 644 bridges
- Providence County, RI · avg 1968 · 476 bridges
- Imperial County, CA · avg 1968 · 444 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (0)
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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.