Total bridges
38
Public highway bridges in Kinney County
County profile · official public datasets
Kinney County, TX
38 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 44.7% rated Good, 55.3% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 38
- Public bridges
- 44.7%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Kinney 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 24%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 38
- public highway bridges
- 1938
- 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.
Kinney County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Kinney County ranks #59 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Kinney County, Texas contains 38 public highway bridges. Roughly 44.7% are rated “Good,” 55.3% “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
44.7%
17 of 38 rated 7-9
Fair condition
55.3%
21 of 38 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 38 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#59 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 38 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 44.7% (17)
Fair 55.3% (21)
Poor 0% (0)
97.4% of Kinney County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
37 of the 38 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.
When Kinney County's bridges were built
38 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s
1920–1929
8 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
8 bridges
- 1950s 3
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s 3
1960–1969
3 bridges
- 1970s 1
1970–1979
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 14 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 36.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1938, 42 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Kinney County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Kinney 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 1938 against a peer-group mean of 1964 is 26 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp County | 40 | 57.5% | 42.5% | 0% | 1977 |
| Upton County | 39 | 43.6% | 56.4% | 0% | 1947 |
| Lipscomb County | 38 | 39.5% | 57.9% | 2.6% | 1966 |
| Kinney County (this page) | 38 | 44.7% | 55.3% | 0% | 1938 |
| Hansford County | 36 | 36.1% | 63.9% | 0% | 1970 |
| Zapata County | 36 | 69.4% | 30.6% | 0% | 1961 |
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 Kinney 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 Kinney County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (38 bridges here).
- Peach County, GA · 38 bridges
- Chowan County, NC · 38 bridges
- Brule County, SD · 38 bridges
- Clarke County, VA · 38 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1938 here).
- Bronx County, NY · avg 1945 · 311 bridges
- New York County, NY · avg 1945 · 247 bridges
- Hunterdon County, NJ · avg 1949 · 373 bridges
- Ciales County, PR · avg 1951 · 18 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (17)
US 90
GoodOver: LITTLE PERDIDO CREEK
0.10 MI E OF FM 3008, Kinney, TX
Built 1929 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,289
US 90
GoodOver: MUD CREEK RELIEF
2.00 MI E OF VALVERDE C/L, Kinney, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,189
US 90
GoodOver: MAVERICK SLOUGH
0.60 MI W OF RM 693, Kinney, TX
Built 1930 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,289
US 90
GoodOver: LAS MORAS CREEK
0.10 MI W OF RM 334, Kinney, TX
Built 1966 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,992
US 90
GoodOver: DRAW
1.30 MI W OF FM 1572, Kinney, TX
Built 1932 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,813
US 90
GoodOver: DRAW
3.90 MI W OF UVALDE C/L, Kinney, TX
Built 1932 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,767
US 90
GoodOver: DRAW
4.65 MI E OF FM 1572, Kinney, TX
Built 1932 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,767
US 277
GoodOver: HERBST DRAW
5.30 MI N OF RM 693, Kinney, TX
Built 1940 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,671
US 277
GoodOver: DRAW
1.90 MI S OF RM 693, Kinney, TX
Built 1940 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,840
US 277
GoodOver: DRAW
3.55 MI S OF RM 693, Kinney, TX
Built 1940 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,840
US 277
GoodOver: DRAW
3.70 MI S OF RM 693, Kinney, TX
Built 1940 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,840
SH 131
GoodOver: DRAW
14.2 MI S OF US 90, Kinney, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 270
SH 131
GoodOver: IMPERIALIST CREEK
13.0 MI S OF US 90, Kinney, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 270
RM 693
GoodOver: ELM CREEK
6.20 MI SW OF US 90, Kinney, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 166
SH 131
GoodOver: DRAW
2.50 MI S OF US 90, Kinney, TX
Built 1917 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 639
US 277
GoodOver: GOAT CREEK
2.70 MI N OF RM 693, Kinney, TX
Built 1940 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 3,671
US 90
GoodOver: ELM CREEK
13.40 MI E VAL VERDE C/L, Kinney, TX
Built 1929 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,289
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