Total bridges
262
Public highway bridges in Lavaca County
County profile · official public datasets
Lavaca County, TX
262 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 50% rated Good, 47.3% Fair, 2.7% Poor.
- 262
- Public bridges
- 50%
- Good condition
- 2.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lavaca 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.
- 203rd
- of 247 on Poor share
- 2.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 262
- 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.
Lavaca County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lavaca County ranks #203 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.7%). Lavaca County, Texas contains 262 public highway bridges. Roughly 50% are rated “Good,” 47.3% “Fair,” and 2.7% “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
50%
131 of 262 rated 7-9
Fair condition
47.3%
124 of 262 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.7%
7 of 262 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#203 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 262 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 50% (131)
Fair 47.3% (124)
Poor 2.7% (7)
Lavaca County's Poor-condition bridges carry 920 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 131 crossings a day against 1,470 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 262 of 262 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
47.7% of Lavaca County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
125 of the 262 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 50% 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 53.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
WILLIS ST over DRAW, built 1940, carries 490 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 7-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 920 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Lavaca County's bridges were built
262 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 13
1920–1929
13 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
30 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
18 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
36 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
22 bridges
- 1970s 14
1970–1979
14 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
37 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
39 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
26 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
21 bridges
- 2020s 6
2020–2029
6 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 39 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 14.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1973, 7 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Lavaca County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Lavaca County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.7% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1973 against a peer-group mean of 1978 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hays County | 272 | 79% | 20.6% | 0.4% | 1996 |
| Harrison County | 269 | 41.6% | 55.8% | 2.6% | 1972 |
| Wise County | 264 | 61.4% | 37.5% | 1.1% | 1989 |
| DeWitt County | 263 | 49.8% | 49% | 1.1% | 1962 |
| Lavaca County (this page) | 262 | 50% | 47.3% | 2.7% | 1973 |
| Colorado County | 252 | 48.8% | 48.8% | 2.4% | 1971 |
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 Lavaca 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 Lavaca County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (262 bridges here).
- Yuma County, AZ · 262 bridges
- Rice County, KS · 262 bridges
- Washtenaw County, MI · 262 bridges
- Albemarle County, VA · 262 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1973 here).
- Jefferson County, AL · avg 1973 · 1,068 bridges
- Erie County, NY · avg 1973 · 906 bridges
- Davidson County, TN · avg 1973 · 832 bridges
- Lancaster County, PA · avg 1973 · 801 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (131)
FM 966
GoodOver: Rocky Creek
0.15 Mi SW of SH 95, Lavaca, TX
Built 1964 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 873
FM 318
GoodOver: SuppleJack Creek
0.75 MI NE of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,172
FM 318
GoodOver: Kelley Creek
2.80 Mi NE of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,172
CO RD 198
GoodOver: LAVACA RIVER
1.45 MI W OF FM 957, Lavaca, TX
Built 1983 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 290
CR 183
GoodOver: DRAW
1.5 MI W OF FM 340, Lavaca, TX
Built 2017 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 120
CO RD 291
GoodOver: DRAW
0.70 MI S OF FM 532, Lavaca, TX
Built 1981 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 90
CO RD 1
GoodOver: KENT BRANCH
2.90 MI NW OF FM 531, Lavaca, TX
Built 1969 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR 441
GoodOver: LITTLE BRUSHY CREEK
1.75 MI E OF US 77, Lavaca, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10
CR 406
GoodOver: SUPPLEJACK CREEK
2.15 MI W OF FM 2543, Lavaca, TX
Built 1956 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 130
US 90A
GoodOver: Boggy Creek
0.86 MI SE of SH 95, Lavaca, TX
Built 1938 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 3,140
FM 1295
GoodOver: LAVACA RIVER
2.68 MI S OF FM 532, Lavaca, TX
Built 1970 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 318
SH 95
GoodOver: KUEHNS CREEK
1.10 MI S OF FM 532 E, Lavaca, TX
Built 1929 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 2,388
US 77A
GoodOver: Smothers Creek
0.82 Mi SW of FM 340, Lavaca, TX
Built 1924 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 7,210
SH 95
GoodOver: PONTON CREEK
0.90 MI S OF FM 340, Lavaca, TX
Built 1930 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 2,403
FM 957
GoodOver: BIG ROCKY CREEK
2.50 MI N OF FM 532, Lavaca, TX
Built 1960 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 339
US 77
GoodOver: Rocky Creek
5.13 MI S of FM 318, Lavaca, TX
Built 1949 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 4,058
US 77
GoodOver: Clarks Creek
1.42 MI S of FM 531, Lavaca, TX
Built 1949 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 4,441
FM 2437
GoodOver: W SANDY CREEK
3.05 MI S OF US 90A, Lavaca, TX
Built 1967 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 178
FM 1447
GoodOver: Big Brushy Creek
1.10 MI SW of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 1962 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 395
FM 2543
GoodOver: Kelley Creek
1.90 Mi SE of FM 318, Lavaca, TX
Built 1960 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 138
US 77
GoodOver: BIG ROCKY CREEK
1.00 MI N OF FM 532W, Lavaca, TX
Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,775
FM 531
GoodOver: Draw
4.0 Mi E of FM 318, Lavaca, TX
Built 2011 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 464
FM 531
GoodOver: Yellow Bank Creek
1.35 Mi W of US 77, Lavaca, TX
Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 251
US 77 NB
GoodOver: SH 111
At JCT US 77 SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,738
US 77 SB
GoodOver: SH 111
At JCT US 77 SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,055
US 77 NB
GoodOver: Scarboroughs Branch
0.8 MI N of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,853
US 77 SB
GoodOver: Scarboroughs Branch
0.8 MI N of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,760
US 77 NB
GoodOver: Dry Hollow Branch
4.9 Mi S of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,114
US 77 SB
GoodOver: Dry Hollow Branch
4.9 Mi S of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,104
US 77 NB
GoodOver: Big Brushy Creek
1.5 MI S of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,738
US 77 NB
GoodOver: Little Brushy Creek
4.1 Mi S of SH 111, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,114
US 90A
GoodOver: BRUSHY CREEK
3.80 MI E OF FM 2314, Lavaca, TX
Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 8,496
FM 957
GoodOver: LAVACA RIVER TRIB
4.20 MI S OF FM 532, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 690
FM 532
GoodOver: WEST PRONG LAVACA RIVER
0.70 MI S OF FM 1680, Lavaca, TX
Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,274
FM 531
GoodOver: Waterhole Creek
1.8 Mi E of US 77, Lavaca, TX
Built 2008 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 411
CR 12
GoodOver: Lavaca River
3.60 Mi S of FM 2616, Lavaca, TX
Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50
CR 14
GoodOver: NAVIDAD RIVER
1.00 MI W OF FM 530, Lavaca, TX
Built 2018 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 284
CR 122
GoodOver: CROOKED CREEK
2.20 MI S OF US 90A, Lavaca, TX
Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30
CR 124
GoodOver: NAVIDAD RIVER
0.8 MI NE OF FM 530, Lavaca, TX
Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CO RD 267
GoodOver: LAVACA RIVER
1.40 MI N OF FM 340, Lavaca, TX
Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CR 196
GoodOver: LAVACA RIVER
0.20 MI W OF FM 957, Lavaca, TX
Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 340
CR 183
GoodOver: SMOTHERS CREEK
1.7 MI W OF FM 340, Lavaca, TX
Built 2018 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 38
CO RD 190
GoodOver: SMOTHERS CREEK TRIB
1.75 MI W OF FM 340, Lavaca, TX
Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50
CR 198
GoodOver: CAMPBELL BRANCH
0.20 MI W OF FM 957, Lavaca, TX
Built 2018 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 290
CO RD 262
GoodOver: N FORK LAVACA RIVER
3.10 MI W OF FM 1295, Lavaca, TX
Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20
CR 229
GoodOver: BIG ROCKY CREEK
1.2 MI SW OF US 77, Lavaca, TX
Built 2020 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 80
CR 260
GoodOver: LAVACA RIVER
0.10 MI E OF SH 95, Lavaca, TX
Built 2018 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 198
CO RD 248
GoodOver: BIG ROCKY CREEK
1.05 MI N OF CO RD 247, Lavaca, TX
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 80
CR 283
GoodOver: LAVACA RIVER
0.50 MI W OF SH 95, Lavaca, TX
Built 2021 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 16
CO RD 300
GoodOver: ROCKY CREEK
0.70 MI N OF CR 301, Lavaca, TX
Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 660
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