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Mitchell County, TX

140 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 32.9% rated Good, 66.4% Fair, 0.7% Poor.

140
Public bridges
32.9%
Good condition
0.7%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Mitchell County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 47%
lowest Poor share in state
0.7%
Poor-condition share
140
public highway bridges
1964
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.

Mitchell County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Mitchell County ranks #115 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.7%). Mitchell County, Texas contains 140 public highway bridges. Roughly 32.9% are rated “Good,” 66.4% “Fair,” and 0.7% “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

140

Public highway bridges in Mitchell County

Good condition

32.9%

46 of 140 rated 7-9

Fair condition

66.4%

93 of 140 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.7%

1 of 140 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#115 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 140 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
32.9% (46)
Fair
66.4% (93)
Poor
0.7% (1)

Mitchell County's Poor-condition bridges carry 100 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 100 crossings a day against 1,981 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 140 of 140 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

77.9% of Mitchell County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

109 of the 140 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 32.9% 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

CR 121 over JAYHAWK CREEK, built 1946, 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 100 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Mitchell County's bridges were built

140 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 58 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 41.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1964, 16 years older than the Texas average of 1980.

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

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Mitchell County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1964 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is 6 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Mitchell County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Panola County 142 2.8%
Mitchell County (this page) 140 0.7%
Culberson County 139 0%
Lee County 139 1.4%
Upshur County 139 0%
Wilson County 139 2.2%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (140 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1964 here).

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

All 140 Good 46 Fair 93 Poor 1

Good-condition bridges (46)

IH 20 EB

Good

Over: FM 3525

1.1 MI W OF SH 208, Mitchell, TX

Built 1962 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 9,750

IH 20 EB

Good

Over: DORN RD

2.6 MI E OF FM 670(N), Mitchell, TX

Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 6,190

IH 20 SFR

Good

Over: LONE WOLF DRAW

0.1 MI E OF SH 208 (S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1962 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 820

IH 20 NFR

Good

Over: LONE WOLF CREEK

0.3 MI E OF SH 208 (S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1966 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

IH 20 SFR

Good

Over: LONE WOLF CREEK

0.3 MI E OF SH 208 (S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1966 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 190

BUS 20

Good

Over: LORAINE CREEK DRAW

0.05 MI S OF IH 20, Mitchell, TX

Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 830

SH 208

Good

Over: SHINE HOLLOW DRAW

2.2 MI N OF IH 20, Mitchell, TX

Built 1934 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,889

SH 163

Good

Over: WILD HORSE DRAW

1.1 MI NE OF FM 670, Mitchell, TX

Built 1951 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 580

SH 208

Good

Over: WALNUT CREEK

10.2 MI S OF FM 644, Mitchell, TX

Built 1948 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 652

FM 670

Good

Over: WILD HORSE CREEK

6.0 MI S OF IH 20, Mitchell, TX

Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

FM 644

Good

Over: S CHAMPION CREEK DRAW

5.1 MI E OF SH 208, Mitchell, TX

Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

FM 1229

Good

Over: DRAW

1.4 MI NW OF SH 163, Mitchell, TX

Built 1963 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

FM 1229

Good

Over: WILLOW CREEK

1.6 MI SE OF SH 350, Mitchell, TX

Built 1988 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 132

FM 1298

Good

Over: WILLOW CREEK

1.3 MI N OF SH 350, Mitchell, TX

Built 1985 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

FM 670

Good

Over: GLAZE CREEK DRAW

3.6 MI N OF BUS 20, Mitchell, TX

Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 120

FM 670

Good

Over: MORGAN CREEK DRAW

0.4 MI W OF FM 1229, Mitchell, TX

Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 120

FM 2319

Good

Over: BIG SANDY CREEK

1.8 MI W OF FM 644(S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100

CR 337

Good

Over: DRAW

4.4 MI W OF SH 280, Mitchell, TX

Built 2007 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 404

Good

Over: N FORK CHAMPION CREEK

0.2 MI W OF CR 412, Mitchell, TX

Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 414

Good

Over: S FK CHAMPION CRK TRIB

1.0 MI N OF FM 2319, Mitchell, TX

Built 1991 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 406

Good

Over: N FORK CHAMPION CREEK

1.1 MI W OF CR 412, Mitchell, TX

Built 1991 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 424

Good

Over: S FK CHAMPION CRK TRIB

0.50 MI S OF FM 2319, Mitchell, TX

Built 1991 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 30

FM 1808

Good

Over: COLORADO RIVER

5.1 MI W OF SH 208, Mitchell, TX

Built 1956 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 162

SH 208

Good

Over: RED BANK CREEK

4.0 MI S OF FM 644, Mitchell, TX

Built 1948 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 612

IH 20 WB

Good

Over: COUNTRY CLUB RD

1.2 MI E OF SH 208(S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1962 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 10,843

IH 20 NFR

Good

Over: NORTH CHAMPION CREEK

5.8 MI E OF SH 208(S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1958 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 100

IH 20 EB

Good

Over: COUNTRY CLUB RD

1.2 MI E OF SH 208(S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1962 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 10,889

IH 20 EB

Good

Over: BUS 20

0.9 MI W OF FM 644(S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1958 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 10,526

IH 20 EB

Good

Over: WIMBERLY RD (CR 438)

0.7 MI E OF FM 644 (N), Mitchell, TX

Built 1958 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 10,645

IH 20 WB

Good

Over: FM 644(S)

10.1 MI E OF SH 208(S), Mitchell, TX

Built 1958 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 10,574

IH 20 WB

Good

Over: WIMBERLY RD (CR 438)

0.7 MI E OF FM 644 (N), Mitchell, TX

Built 1958 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 10,746

SH 163

Good

Over: BEALS CREEK

2.8 MI S OF FM 670, Mitchell, TX

Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 194

SH 208

Good

Over: SOUTH FORK CHAMPION CRK

6.40 MI S OF IH 20, Mitchell, TX

Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 567

FM 644

Good

Over: NORTH CHAMPION CREEK

2.0 MILES N OF IH 20, Mitchell, TX

Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 239

FM 644

Good

Over: BIG SANDY CREEK

4.6 MI S OF IH 20, Mitchell, TX

Built 2005 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 187

FM 2836

Good

Over: Cherry Creek

2.3 MI S OF IH 20, Mitchell, TX

Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 273

FM 670

Good

Over: GLAZE CREEK

1.8 MI W OF FM 1229, Mitchell, TX

Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 120

CR 337

Good

Over: COLORADO RIVER

6.2 MI W OF SH 280, Mitchell, TX

Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

CR 290

Good

Over: MORGAN CREEK

0.2 MI E OF CR 280, Mitchell, TX

Built 1989 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 46

CR 262

Good

Over: WILDHORSE CREEK

1.5 MI W OF FM 670, Mitchell, TX

Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 26

CR 206

Good

Over: COLORADO RIVER

1.6 MI N OF FM 1229, Mitchell, TX

Built 1989 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 24

CR 123

Good

Over: RED BANK CREEK

3.5 MI S OF FM 644, Mitchell, TX

Built 2012 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

CR 424

Good

Over: N FORK CHAMPION CREEK

0.9 MI N OF CR 440, Mitchell, TX

Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 24

CR 424

Good

Over: S FORK CHAMPION CREEK

1.0 MI S OF FM 2319, Mitchell, TX

Built 1996 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 30

CR 121

Good

Over: DRAW

0.02 MI N OF CR 123, Mitchell, TX

Built 2015 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100

IH 20 SFR

Good

Over: COLORADO RIVER

2.1 MI W OF SH 208, Mitchell, TX

Built 1983 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,690

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