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Kendall County, TX

112 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 55.4% rated Good, 44.6% Fair, 0% Poor.

112
Public bridges: 55.4%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Kendall County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 10%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 112
public highway bridges: 1975
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.

Kendall County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Kendall County ranks #25 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Kendall County, Texas contains 112 public highway bridges. Roughly 55.4% are rated “Good,” 44.6% “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

112

Public highway bridges in Kendall County

Good condition

55.4%

62 of 112 rated 7-9

Fair condition

44.6%

50 of 112 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 112 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#25 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 112 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

55.4% (62)

Fair

44.6% (50)

Poor

0% (0)

61.6% of Kendall County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

69 of the 112 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 55.4% 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

1
1930s

16
1940s

1
1950s

2
1960s

34
1970s

15
1980s

11
1990s

6
2000s

9
2010s

9
2020s

8

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 34 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 30.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1975, 5 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Kendall County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1965 is 10 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Kendall County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Stephens County	115	39.1%	60%	0.9%	1962
Brewster County	114	41.2%	58.8%	0%	1957
Val Verde County	113	52.2%	47.8%	0%	1966
Kendall County (this page)	112	55.4%	44.6%	0%	1975
Young County	109	56%	44%	0%	1965
Burnet County	108	56.5%	43.5%	0%	1974

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (112 bridges here).

Columbia County, FL · 112 bridges
Sumter County, FL · 112 bridges
Houston County, GA · 112 bridges
Tift County, GA · 112 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1975 here).

San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges

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

All 112 Good 62 Fair 50 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (62)

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Kendall County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

61.6% of Kendall County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Kendall 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

Good-condition bridges (62)

FM 289

RM 3351

IH 10 EFR

NORTH CREEK RD

IH 10 NFR

IH 10 ML

FM 473

SH 46

RM 474 (BLANCO RD)

RM 1376

RM 1888

RM 1888

RM 1888

RM 1888

FM 3351

SH 46

SH 46

RM 474 (BLANCO RD)

BENTWOOD DR

SCHOOL ST

SCHOOL STREET

SILVER SPUR TRAIL

IH 10 WBML

IH 10 EBML

IH 10 WBML

IH 10 EBML

IH 10 WBML

FM 1621

IH 10 WBML

IH 10 EBML

BUS 87

IH 10

SH 46

IH 10 WBFR T/A

US 87 Business NB

US 87 Business SB

IH 10 WBFR

IH 10 WBFR

IH 10 EBFR

BUS 87 NB Ramp

RM 473

RM 473

RM 473

RM 474

RM 1376

RM 1376

RIVER BD/HENNING X

WARING-WELFARE RD

MARQUARDT ROAD

Mill Dam Road

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