Total bridges
38
Public highway bridges in Lipscomb County
County profile · official public datasets
Lipscomb County, TX
38 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 39.5% rated Good, 57.9% Fair, 2.6% Poor.
- 38
- Public bridges
- 39.5%
- Good condition
- 2.6%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Lipscomb 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.
- 201st
- of 247 on Poor share
- 2.6%
- Poor-condition share
- 38
- public highway bridges
- 1966
- 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.
Lipscomb County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Lipscomb County ranks #201 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.6%). Lipscomb County, Texas contains 38 public highway bridges. Roughly 39.5% are rated “Good,” 57.9% “Fair,” and 2.6% “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
39.5%
15 of 38 rated 7-9
Fair condition
57.9%
22 of 38 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.6%
1 of 38 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#201 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 39.5% (15)
Fair 57.9% (22)
Poor 2.6% (1)
Lipscomb County's Poor-condition bridges carry 632 vehicle crossings a day
That is 3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 632 crossings a day against 487 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 38 of 38 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
76.3% of Lipscomb County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
29 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 39.5% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
FM 1454 over Mammoth Creek, built 1960, carries 632 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 632 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Lipscomb County's bridges were built
38 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 4
1930–1939
4 bridges
- 1940s 2
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
15 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
6 bridges
- 1970s 2
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s 1
1980–1989
1 bridges
- 1990s 1
1990–1999
1 bridges
- 2000s 3
2000–2009
3 bridges
- 2010s 2
2010–2019
2 bridges
- 2020s 2
2020–2029
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 15 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 39.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1966, 14 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Lipscomb County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Lipscomb County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.6% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1966 against a peer-group mean of 1959 is 7 years newer.
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 |
| Kinney County | 38 | 44.7% | 55.3% | 0% | 1938 |
| Lipscomb County (this page) | 38 | 39.5% | 57.9% | 2.6% | 1966 |
| 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 Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb 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 (1966 here).
- Butler County, KS · avg 1966 · 591 bridges
- Grafton County, NH · avg 1966 · 544 bridges
- Queens County, NY · avg 1966 · 514 bridges
- Lehigh County, PA · avg 1966 · 381 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (15)
SH 15
GoodOver: Drain
0.7 Mi W of FM 1265, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1933 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,114
SH 23
GoodOver: Draw
4.2 Mi S of SH 377, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 337
SH 23
GoodOver: Draw
8.9 Mi S of SH 15, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 337
FM 1454
GoodOver: Draw
1.4 Mi N of SH 15, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1951 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 106
FM 1454
GoodOver: Canyon Creek
15.9 Mi S of SH 15, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 620
FM 1455
GoodOver: Draw
2.9 Mi S of SH 15, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1951 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 1920
GoodOver: Draw
0.9 Mi W of SH 305, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1961 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 194
FM 1920
GoodOver: Draw
5.2 Mi W of SH 305, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1961 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 194
FM 3260
GoodOver: Drain
3.3 Mi E of FM 1265, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1983 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 151
CR 10
GoodOver: Bowen Creek
2.0 Mi S of SH 15, Lipscomb, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
SH15
GoodOver: Plummer Creek
0.4 Mi W of FM 2248, Lipscomb, TX
Built 2021 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,320
SH 15
GoodOver: IVANHOE CREEK
44 MI E OF US 83, Lipscomb, TX
Built 2021 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 500
FM 1453
GoodOver: Commission Creek
3.9 Mi S of US 60, Lipscomb, TX
Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
RM 2248
GoodOver: N FORK KIOWA CREEK
2.15 MI N of SH 15, Lipscomb, TX
Built 2014 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 102
CR D
GoodOver: North Fork Kiowa Creek
2.4 Mi NE of SH 15, Lipscomb, TX
Built 2011 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 25
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