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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.

Total bridges

262

Public highway bridges in Lavaca County

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

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.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lavaca County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Hays County 272 0.4%
Harrison County 269 2.6%
Wise County 264 1.1%
DeWitt County 263 1.1%
Lavaca County (this page) 262 2.7%
Colorado County 252 2.4%

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).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1973 here).

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

All 262 Good 131 Fair 124 Poor 7

Good-condition bridges (131)

CO RD 319

Good

Over: N FORK MUSTANG CREEK

2.60 MI NE OF SH 95, Lavaca, TX

Built 1991 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

CO RD 317

Good

Over: S FORK MUSTANG CREEK

0.50 MI SE OF CR 318, Lavaca, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50

CO RD 172

Good

Over: ROCKY CREEK

0.45 MI S OF US 77A, Lavaca, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 80

CR 310

Good

Over: MUSTANG CREEK

0.65 MI N OF US 77A, Lavaca, TX

Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 22

CR 390

Good

Over: MUSTANG CREEK

0.50 MI S OF CR 170, Lavaca, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 70

CR 1

Good

Over: LAVACA RIVER

3.70 MI SE OF FM 531, Lavaca, TX

Built 1991 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 400

CO RD 1

Good

Over: LAVACA RIVER

1.40 MI S OF US 77, Lavaca, TX

Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 130

CR 354

Good

Over: BOGGY CREEK

0.35 MI E OF GONZALES C/L, Lavaca, TX

Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 140

CR 405/LAVACA ST

Good

Over: SUPPLEJACK CREEK

0.95 MI SW OF SH 111, Lavaca, TX

Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 542

CR 370

Good

Over: PONTON CREEK

1.8 MI W OF FM 1891, Lavaca, TX

Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 39

CR 424

Good

Over: SUPPLEJACK CREEK

4.40 MI S OF FM 531, Lavaca, TX

Built 1995 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30

CR 392

Good

Over: CLARKS CREEK

1.85 MI N OF FM 3475, Lavaca, TX

Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 140

CR 402

Good

Over: SUPPLEJACK CREEK

1.0 MI E OF FM 318, Lavaca, TX

Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 80

CR 444

Good

Over: CLARKS CREEK

1.25 MI E OF US 77, Lavaca, TX

Built 2019 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20

CR 461

Good

Over: WATERHOLE CREEK

1.60 MI SE OF US 77, Lavaca, TX

Built 2022 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 34

CR 139

Good

Over: MILLER CREEK

1.80 MI N OF CR 138, Lavaca, TX

Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20

CR 138

Good

Over: NAVIDAD RIVER

1.60 MI NE OF FM 2314, Lavaca, TX

Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 110

CR 138

Good

Over: MIXON CREEK

0.20 MI NE OF FM 2314, Lavaca, TX

Built 1995 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 163

CR 437

Good

Over: LITTLE BRUSHY CREEK

0.30 MI N OF DEWITT C/L, Lavaca, TX

Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20

CR 14A

Good

Over: SANDY CREEK

10.3 Mi N of SH 111, Lavaca, TX

Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10

CR 14A

Good

Over: CHALK BRANCH

6.0 Mi N of SH 111, Lavaca, TX

Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 140

FM 530

Good

Over: DRAW

7.23 MI S OF US 90A, Lavaca, TX

Built 2000 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 1,121

FM 533

Good

Over: Rocky Creek

1.67 Mi SW of US 90A, Lavaca, TX

Built 1960 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 552

FM 2616

Good

Over: GRAFE BRANCH

6.68 MI S OF FM 530, Lavaca, TX

Built 1978 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 170

FM 530

Good

Over: NAVIDAD RIVER

0.60 M W OF FM 2437, Lavaca, TX

Built 2007 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 369

FM 318

Good

Over: MUSTANG CREEK

5.4 MI SW OF US 77, Lavaca, TX

Built 1974 Load: 39.0 t ADT: 432

FM 531

Good

Over: Burncamp Creek

2.20 MI E of FM 318 S, Lavaca, TX

Built 1960 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 464

FM 530

Good

Over: DRAW

4.2 MI S OF FM 2616, Lavaca, TX

Built 2000 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,121

FM 3435

Good

Over: BOGGY CREEK

0.70 MI E OF US 90A, Lavaca, TX

Built 1986 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,386

CO RD 182

Good

Over: SMOTHERS CREEK

1.35 MI S OF FM 340, Lavaca, TX

Built 1985 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 140

CO RD 196

Good

Over: DRAW

0.15 MI E OF FM 340, Lavaca, TX

Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 260

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.