Total bridges
168
Public highway bridges in Jones County
County profile · official public datasets
Jones County, TX
168 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 60.7% rated Good, 37.5% Fair, 1.8% Poor.
- 168
- Public bridges
- 60.7%
- Good condition
- 1.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Jones 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.
- 170th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 168
- public highway bridges
- 1967
- 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.
Jones County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Jones County ranks #170 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.8%). Jones County, Texas contains 168 public highway bridges. Roughly 60.7% are rated “Good,” 37.5% “Fair,” and 1.8% “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
60.7%
102 of 168 rated 7-9
Fair condition
37.5%
63 of 168 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.8%
3 of 168 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#170 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 168 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 60.7% (102)
Fair 37.5% (63)
Poor 1.8% (3)
Jones County's Poor-condition bridges carry 201 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 67 crossings a day against 958 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 168 of 168 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
58.3% of Jones County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
98 of the 168 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 60.7% 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 49.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CR 449 over BITTER CREEK, built 1955, carries 100 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 201 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Jones County's bridges were built
168 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s
1920–1929
25 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
17 bridges
- 1940s 7
1940–1949
7 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
36 bridges
- 1960s 12
1960–1969
12 bridges
- 1970s 4
1970–1979
4 bridges
- 1980s 7
1980–1989
7 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
26 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
28 bridges
- 2010s 4
2010–2019
4 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 36 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1967, 13 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Jones County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Jones County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.8% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1967 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is 6 years older.
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 (this page) | 168 | 60.7% | 37.5% | 1.8% | 1967 |
| Freestone County | 167 | 38.3% | 60.5% | 1.2% | 1978 |
| Hardin County | 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 Jones 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 Jones County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (168 bridges here).
- Wilcox County, AL · 168 bridges
- Kings County, CA · 168 bridges
- Carroll County, GA · 168 bridges
- Clayton County, GA · 168 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1967 here).
- Los Angeles County, CA · avg 1967 · 3,547 bridges
- Allegheny County, PA · avg 1967 · 1,294 bridges
- Sonoma County, CA · avg 1967 · 609 bridges
- Merced County, CA · avg 1967 · 528 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (3)
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