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Jim Hogg County, TX

29 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 86.2% rated Good, 13.8% Fair, 0% Poor.

29
Public bridges: 86.2%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Jim Hogg 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 26%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 29
public highway bridges: 1963
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.

Jim Hogg County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Jim Hogg County ranks #64 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Jim Hogg County, Texas contains 29 public highway bridges. Roughly 86.2% are rated “Good,” 13.8% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Jim Hogg County

Good condition

86.2%

25 of 29 rated 7-9

Fair condition

13.8%

4 of 29 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 29 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#64 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 29 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

86.2% (25)

Fair

13.8% (4)

Poor

0% (0)

89.7% of Jim Hogg County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

26 of the 29 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 86.2% 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.

1920s

2
1930s

1
1950s

3
1960s

18
1970s

2
1980s

2
1990s

1

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 18 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 62.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1963, 17 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Jim Hogg County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1963 against a peer-group mean of 1964 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Jim Hogg County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Sherman County	29	37.9%	62.1%	0%	1955
Jim Hogg County (this page)	29	86.2%	13.8%	0%	1963
Glasscock County	28	42.9%	57.1%	0%	1978
Reagan County	28	42.9%	57.1%	0%	1974
Real County	28	35.7%	64.3%	0%	1949
Somervell County	28	46.4%	53.6%	0%	1964

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (29 bridges here).

Garden County, NE · 29 bridges
Burke County, ND · 29 bridges
Ceiba County, PR · 29 bridges
Guayama County, PR · 29 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1963 here).

Worcester County, MA · avg 1963 · 1,014 bridges
Honolulu County, HI · avg 1963 · 682 bridges
Chester County, PA · avg 1963 · 680 bridges
Essex County, NJ · avg 1963 · 505 bridges

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

All 29 Good 25 Fair 4 Poor 0

All bridges (29)

Sort:

SH 359

Fair

Over: MESQUITE CREEK

2.35 MI SE DUVAL C/L, Jim Hogg, TX

Built 1926 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,402

SH 359

Fair

Over: MESQUITE CREEK RELIEF

2.3 MI SE DUVAL C/L, Jim Hogg, TX

Built 1926 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,402

FM 649

Fair

Over: DRAW

1.8 MI N OF SH 16, Jim Hogg, TX

Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 203

SH 16

Fair

Over: DRAW

APPX 0.3 MI E OF FM 649, Jim Hogg, TX

Jim Hogg County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

89.7% of Jim Hogg County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

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

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (29)

SH 359

SH 359

FM 649

SH 16

FM 649

FM 649

FM 649

FM 649

FM 649

SH 285

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

SH 16

FM 1017

FM 1017

FM 2687

SH 285

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