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Jasper County, TX

179 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 44.7% rated Good, 53.1% Fair, 2.2% Poor.

179
Public bridges
44.7%
Good condition
2.2%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Jasper 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.

186th
of 247 on Poor share
2.2%
Poor-condition share
179
public highway bridges
1973
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.

Jasper County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Jasper County ranks #186 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.2%). Jasper County, Texas contains 179 public highway bridges. Roughly 44.7% are rated “Good,” 53.1% “Fair,” and 2.2% “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.

Total bridges

179

Public highway bridges in Jasper County

Good condition

44.7%

80 of 179 rated 7-9

Fair condition

53.1%

95 of 179 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.2%

4 of 179 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#186 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 179 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
44.7% (80)
Fair
53.1% (95)
Poor
2.2% (4)

Jasper County's Poor-condition bridges carry 4,601 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,150 crossings a day against 2,503 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 179 of 179 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

58.7% of Jasper County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

105 of the 179 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 44.7% 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 93% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US 190 over NECHES RIVER, built 1943, carries 4,281 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 4,601 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Jasper County's bridges were built

179 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 35 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1973, 7 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

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

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Jasper County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.2% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 7 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Jasper County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Potter County 181 4.4%
Orange County 179 2.2%
Jasper County (this page) 179 2.2%
Waller County 177 1.1%
Anderson County 176 0%
Atascosa County 176 0.6%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (179 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1973 here).

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

All 179 Good 80 Fair 95 Poor 4

All bridges (179)

CR 138

Good

Over: BIG SANDY CREEK

0.10 MI SE OF FM 777, Jasper, TX

Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 70

CR 140

Good

Over: BIG SANDY CREEK

0.10 MI SE OF FM 777, Jasper, TX

Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

CR 307

Good

Over: BIG CREEK

3.15 MI N OF FM 1005, Jasper, TX

Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 110

CR 317

Good

Over: PICKERING CREEK

3.15 MI S OF FM 777, Jasper, TX

Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 210

CR 317

Good

Over: LITTLE WALNUT RUN CREEK

0.50 MI S OF FM 777, Jasper, TX

Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 180

CR 322

Good

Over: WALNUT RUN CREEK

4.25 MI S OF FM 777, Jasper, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

CR 296

Good

Over: BIG WALNUT RUN CREEK

0.59 MI S OF US 96, Jasper, TX

Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 210

CR 480

Good

Over: ROBINSON CREEK BRANCH

1.4 MI W of US 96, Jasper, TX

Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 90

CR 482

Good

Over: ROBINSON CREEK BRANCH

1.10 MI W OF US 96, Jasper, TX

Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 90

CR 419

Good

Over: PIN OAK CREEK

1 MI N OF "CITY LIMIT", Jasper, TX

Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 40

CR 443

Good

Over: EVERETT CREEK

3.15 MI E OF US 96, Jasper, TX

Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 70

CR 826

Good

Over: GUM SLOUGH

2.75 MI W OF SH 62, Jasper, TX

Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CR 468

Good

Over: EVERETT CREEK

.5 MI E OF INT WITH CR459, Jasper, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 40

CR 480

Good

Over: ROBINSON CREEK

0.8 MI E. OF FM 252, Jasper, TX

Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

MANUEL ST

Good

Over: SANDY CREEK

0.1 MI S OF FM 776, Jasper, TX

Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,050

FLETCHER STREET

Good

Over: SANDY CREEK

0.02 MI S OF FM 2799, Jasper, TX

Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,480

E. HOUSTON ST.

Good

Over: SANDY CREEK

0.1 MI E OF US 96, Jasper, TX

Built 1999 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,540

PEACHTREE ST.

Good

Over: SANDY CREEK

0.2 MI S OF FM 2799, Jasper, TX

Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 740

CR 429

Good

Over: Thickety Creek

0.75 Mi. N of FM 2245, Jasper, TX

Built 2019 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 20

FM 252

Good

Over: WALNUT RUN

2.30 MI S OF US 190, Jasper, TX

Built 1989 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 2,526

US 96

Good

Over: WALNUT RUN

1.50 MI S OF US 190, Jasper, TX

Built 1959 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 7,215

FM 105

Good

Over: WEST TENMILE CREEK

5.40 MI S OF SH 2246, Jasper, TX

Built 1994 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 3,668

FM 105

Good

Over: EAST TENMILE CREEK

5.60 MI S OF SH 2246, Jasper, TX

Built 1994 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 3,668

CR 716

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

0.15 MI N OF US 96, Jasper, TX

Built 1984 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 794

CR 565

Good

Over: TROUT CREEK

0.50 MI E OF US 96, Jasper, TX

Built 1993 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 670

CR 139

Poor

Over: BIG SANDY CREEK

0.20 MI S OF FM 777, Jasper, TX

Built 1984 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 100

CR 456

Poor

Over: THICKETY CREEK

0.50 MI W OF NEWTON C/L, Jasper, TX

Built 1991 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 50

CR 454

Poor

Over: THICKETY CREEK

0.80 MI S OF FM 2245, Jasper, TX

Built 1992 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 170

US 190

Poor

Over: NECHES RIVER

0.00 MI E OF TYLER C/L, Jasper, TX

Built 1943 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 4,281

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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.