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Lee County, TX

139 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 44.6% rated Good, 54% Fair, 1.4% Poor.

139
Public bridges: 44.6%
Good condition: 1.4%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Lee County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

157th
of 247 on Poor share: 1.4%
Poor-condition share: 139
public highway bridges: 1980
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.

Lee County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lee County ranks #157 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.4%). Lee County, Texas contains 139 public highway bridges. Roughly 44.6% are rated “Good,” 54% “Fair,” and 1.4% “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

139

Public highway bridges in Lee County

Good condition

44.6%

62 of 139 rated 7-9

Fair condition

54%

75 of 139 rated 5-6

Poor condition

1.4%

2 of 139 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#157 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 139 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

44.6% (62)

Fair

54% (75)

Poor

1.4% (2)

Lee County's Poor-condition bridges carry 9,155 vehicle crossings a day

That is 3.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,578 crossings a day against 2,262 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 139 of 139 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

37.4% of Lee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

52 of the 139 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 44.6% 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 96% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US 77 over UP RR, built 1953, carries 8,790 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 9,155 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1930s

11
1940s

9
1950s

19
1960s

13
1970s

2
1980s

23
1990s

21
2000s

33
2010s

8

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 33 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1980) matches the Texas average (1980).

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Lee County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.4% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1980 against a peer-group mean of 1965 is 15 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Lee County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Mitchell County	140	32.9%	66.4%	0.7%	1964
Culberson County	139	43.2%	56.8%	0%	1963
Upshur County	139	46%	54%	0%	1968
Wilson County	139	67.6%	30.2%	2.2%	1966
Lee County (this page)	139	44.6%	54%	1.4%	1980
Scurry County	138	48.6%	50.7%	0.7%	1962

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (139 bridges here).

Bulloch County, GA · 139 bridges
St. Helena County, LA · 139 bridges
Garrett County, MD · 139 bridges
Midland County, MI · 139 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1980 here).

Tulsa County, OK · avg 1980 · 1,135 bridges
Miami-Dade County, FL · avg 1980 · 1,057 bridges
Pulaski County, AR · avg 1980 · 721 bridges
Hinds County, MS · avg 1980 · 663 bridges

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

All 139 Good 62 Fair 75 Poor 2

Fair-condition bridges (75)

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Lee County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Lee County's Poor-condition bridges carry 9,155 vehicle crossings a day

37.4% of Lee County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 96% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Lee 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

Fair-condition bridges (75)

CR 104

CR 309

FM 1624

CR 326

SH 21

FM 112

FM 141

FM 1624

FM 1624

FM 2440

US 77

FM 141

SH 21

FM 1624

CR 213

CR 213

CR 208

CR 210

CR 209

CR 326

NAILS CREEK RD

CR 108

CR 108

CR 124

CR 124

CR 127

CR 114

CR 428

CR 430

CR 121

CR 119

CR 327

CR 329

CR 309

CR 404

CR 306

CR 314

CR 410

CR 205

CR 205

CR 217

CR 224

CR 216

US 290 EB

FM 141

FM 1624

FM 2440

FM 141

CR 223

US 290 EB

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