Total bridges
68
Public highway bridges in Mills County
County profile · official public datasets
Mills County, TX
68 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 48.5% rated Good, 48.5% Fair, 2.9% Poor.
- 68
- Public bridges
- 48.5%
- Good condition
- 2.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Mills 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.
- 211th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 2.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 68
- public highway bridges
- 1958
- 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.
Mills County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Mills County ranks #211 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.9%). Mills County, Texas contains 68 public highway bridges. Roughly 48.5% are rated “Good,” 48.5% “Fair,” and 2.9% “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
48.5%
33 of 68 rated 7-9
Fair condition
48.5%
33 of 68 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.9%
2 of 68 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#211 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 68 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 48.5% (33)
Fair 48.5% (33)
Poor 2.9% (2)
Mills County's Poor-condition bridges carry 150 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 75 crossings a day against 1,592 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 68 of 68 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
85.3% of Mills County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
58 of the 68 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 48.5% 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 66.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CR 112 over BROWNS CREEK, built 1974, carries 100 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 150 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Mills County's bridges were built
68 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
24 bridges
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
18 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
12 bridges
- 1970s 2
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1990s 1
1990–1999
1 bridges
- 2000s 4
2000–2009
4 bridges
- 2010s 4
2010–2019
4 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 24 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 35.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1958, 22 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Mills County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Mills County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.9% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1958 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is 12 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris County | 70 | 30% | 70% | 0% | 1971 |
| Swisher County | 69 | 39.1% | 60.9% | 0% | 1975 |
| Donley County | 68 | 44.1% | 48.5% | 7.4% | 1957 |
| Mills County (this page) | 68 | 48.5% | 48.5% | 2.9% | 1958 |
| Bandera County | 67 | 59.7% | 38.8% | 1.5% | 1972 |
| Collingsworth County | 65 | 47.7% | 47.7% | 4.6% | 1974 |
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 Mills 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 Mills County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (68 bridges here).
- Bent County, CO · 68 bridges
- Columbia County, GA · 68 bridges
- Talbot County, GA · 68 bridges
- Wilcox County, GA · 68 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1958 here).
- Middlesex County, MA · avg 1958 · 818 bridges
- Bucks County, PA · avg 1958 · 699 bridges
- Butte County, CA · avg 1958 · 437 bridges
- Cowley County, KS · avg 1958 · 337 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (68)
CR 433
FairOver: COLORADO RIVER
0.00 MI N OF SAN SABA C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1939 Load: 5.4 t ADT: 100
CR 411
FairOver: NABORS CREEK
1.75 MI S OF US 183, Mills, TX
Built 1965 Load: 11.8 t ADT: 50
CR 427
FairOver: SHAW CREEK
0.05 MI SE OF CR 411, Mills, TX
Built 1920 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 50
FM 45
FairOver: COLORADO RIVER
0.00 MI N OF SAN SABA CL, Mills, TX
Built 1954 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 984
US 84
FairOver: DRAW
4.00 MI SE OF BROWN C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,877
US 84
FairOver: DRAW
0.05 MI NW OF FM 573 N, Mills, TX
Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,937
US 84
FairOver: DRAW
1.45 MI NW OF FM 1029, Mills, TX
Built 1935 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,186
US 84
FairOver: DRAW
2.10 MI SE OF FM 1029, Mills, TX
Built 1935 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,322
US 84
FairOver: OWENS BRANCH
4.45 MI W OF HAMILTON C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,838
SH 16
FairOver: DRAW
0.55 MI N OF FM 218 S, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,069
SH 16
FairOver: DRAW
0.55 MI S OF FM 218 S, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 875
SH 16
FairOver: DRAW
2.50 MI S OF FM 218, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 875
SH 16
FairOver: DRAW
2.85 MI N OF US 183, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,240
FM 572
FairOver: DRAW
1.05 MI W OF FM 1047, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 573
FairOver: PECAN BAYOU
5.91 MI SW OF US 84, Mills, TX
Built 1964 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 129
US 84
FairOver: DRAW
2.25 MI NW OF FM 1029, Mills, TX
Built 1935 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,186
US 84
FairOver: NORTH BENNETT CREEK
6.25 MI W OF HAMILTON C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,000
CR 430
FairOver: DRAW
0.05 MI SW OF FM 574, Mills, TX
Built 1954 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR 417
FairOver: PRESCOTT CREEK
0.20 MI W OF SH 16, Mills, TX
Built 1936 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 60
US 84
FairOver: POMPEY CREEK
4.80 MI SE OF BROWN C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1969 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 3,877
SH 16
FairOver: COLORADO RIVER
0.00 MI N OF SAN SABA CL, Mills, TX
Built 1939 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 1,189
FM 575
FairOver: NORTH BENNETT CREEK
3.75 MI N OF FM 2005, Mills, TX
Built 1950 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 105
US 84
FairOver: M BENNETT CK (KEMP LAKE)
10.05 MI W OF HAMILTON CL, Mills, TX
Built 1938 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 2,000
FM 572
FairOver: RUSSELL BRANCH
4.20 MI W OF FM 1047, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 100
FM 218
FairOver: MOUNTAIN CREEK
2.42 MI W OF SH 16, Mills, TX
Built 1953 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 338
FM 573
FairOver: POMPEY CREEK
3.00 MI S OF FM 218, Mills, TX
Built 1954 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 156
FM 2005
FairOver: NORTH BENNETT CREEK
8.20 MI NE OF US 84, Mills, TX
Built 1956 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 369
FM 2005
FairOver: GHOLSON CREEK
8.90 MI NE OF US 84, Mills, TX
Built 1956 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 369
CR 427
FairOver: BLOWOUT CREEK
2.15 MI SE OF CR 411, Mills, TX
Built 2004 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50
CR 333
FairOver: BENNETT CREEK
2.90 MI W OF FM 1047, Mills, TX
Built 2018 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 50
FM 3023
FairOver: BULL CREEK
3.20 MI S OF SH 16, Mills, TX
Built 1970 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 151
US 84
FairOver: LONG HOLLOW
3.75 MI NW OF FM 1029, Mills, TX
Built 1935 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 4,186
SH 16
FairOver: PRESCOTT CREEK
2.05 MI NE OF SAN SABA CL, Mills, TX
Built 1936 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 1,189
US 84
GoodOver: DRAW
7.65 MI SE OF BROWN C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1934 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,937
US 84
GoodOver: KELLY BRANCH
1.90 MI SE OF BROWN C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 3,877
US 84
GoodOver: DRAW
0.20 MI NW OF FM 1029, Mills, TX
Built 1935 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,186
US 84
GoodOver: DRAW
0.50 MI E OF FM 2005, Mills, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,063
US 84
GoodOver: DRAW
13.05 MI W OF HAMILTON CL, Mills, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,063
US 84
GoodOver: DRAW
9.50 MI W OF HAMILTON C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,000
US 84
GoodOver: DRAW
0.45 MI W OF HAMILTON C/L, Mills, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,963
US 183
GoodOver: DRAW
8.75 MI NW OF LAMPASAS CL, Mills, TX
Built 1936 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,771
US 183
GoodOver: DRAW
1.35 MI NW OF LAMPASAS CL, Mills, TX
Built 1936 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,771
US 183
GoodOver: DRAW
1.20 MI NW OF LAMPASAS CL, Mills, TX
Built 1936 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,771
SH 16
GoodOver: DRAW
0.85 MI NW OF FM 218 N, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 872
SH 16
GoodOver: DRAW
2.30 MI N OF US 183, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,240
SH 16
GoodOver: DRAW
1.70 MI N OF US 183, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,240
FM 574
GoodOver: DRAW
6.30 MI E OF FM 45, Mills, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 300
FM 572
GoodOver: DRAW
10.05 MI SE OF US 183, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 142
FM 572
GoodOver: DRAW
3.85 MI W OF FM 1047, Mills, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
US 183
GoodOver: DRAW
0.05 MI N OF SH 16 S, Mills, TX
Built 1936 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 5,095
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