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Montague County, TX

234 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 47% rated Good, 50.4% Fair, 2.6% Poor.

Compiled by PlainBridges

234
Public bridges: 47%
Good condition: 2.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Montague County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

198th
of 247 on Poor share: 2.6%
Poor-condition share: 234
public highway bridges: 1985
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.

Montague County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Montague County ranks #198 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.6%). Montague County, Texas contains 234 public highway bridges. Roughly 47% are rated “Good,” 50.4% “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.

Total bridges

234

Public highway bridges in Montague County

Good condition

47%

110 of 234 rated 7-9

Fair condition

50.4%

118 of 234 rated 5-6

Poor condition

2.6%

6 of 234 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#198 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 234 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

47% (110)

Fair

50.4% (118)

Poor

2.6% (6)

Montague County's Poor-condition bridges carry 668 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 111 crossings a day against 1,237 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 234 of 234 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

29.1% of Montague County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

68 of the 234 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 47% 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 25.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CR 363/JORDAN RD over BRUSHY CREEK, built 2003, carries 168 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 6-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 668 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

2
1920s

1
1930s

17
1940s

5
1950s

11
1960s

14
1970s

33
1980s

19
1990s

64
2000s

42
2010s

12
2020s

14

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 64 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1985, 5 years newer than the Texas average of 1980.

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Montague County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.6% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1985 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is 11 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Montague County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Nacogdoches County	237	21.1%	73.4%	5.5%	1978
Palo Pinto County	237	41.8%	57.8%	0.4%	1962
San Patricio County	235	47.7%	50.6%	1.7%	1978
Eastland County	234	40.6%	58.1%	1.3%	1965
Montague County (this page)	234	47%	50.4%	2.6%	1985
Washington County	232	38.8%	57.8%	3.4%	1989

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (234 bridges here).

Prince of Wales-Hyder County, AK · 234 bridges
Morgan County, IL · 234 bridges
Lyon County, MN · 234 bridges
Jackson County, NC · 234 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1985 here).

Hillsborough County, FL · avg 1985 · 840 bridges
Lancaster County, NE · avg 1985 · 661 bridges
Douglas County, NE · avg 1985 · 509 bridges
Darke County, OH · avg 1985 · 463 bridges

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

All 234 Good 110 Fair 118 Poor 6

Fair-condition bridges (118)

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Montague County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Montague County's Poor-condition bridges carry 668 vehicle crossings a day

29.1% of Montague County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 25.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Montague 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 (118)

CR 278/HILDRETH PL

CR 316/WBELKNAP CR

CR 340/BRIER CREEK

CR 364/SMYRNA RD

CR 125/RED RIV STA

CR 186/BIRDWELL RD

CR 302/LONGBRANCH

CR 469/DENVER RD

CR 113/NAYLOR RD

CR 374/ROCKY RD

CR 437/PILOTS LOOP

CR 469/DENVER RD

US 82 WB

US 82 WB

SH 59

SH 59

FM 1749

FM 2849

CR 121/CRENSHAW RD

FM 1655

CR 278/HILDRETH PL

CR 300/WOODS RD

CR 348/PICKET RUN

CR 395

CR 447/JIM NED RD

CR 471/DOG KENNEL

CR 173/CARDWELL RD

CR 316/KENNEDY RD

FM 1816

CR 175/GILBERT RD

CR 267/NGREENBRIER

US 82 EB

SH 101

SH 175

FM 677

CR 121/CRENSHAW RD

CR 123/CRAIN RD

CR 181/GRAY RD

CR 214/ILLINOIS BD

CR 238/COBB HOLLOW

CR 238/COBBHLLW RD

CR 242/MT CRK RD

CR 258/HARRIS RD

CR 398/SIGN CR 302

CR 406/WELLSERV RD

CR 417/SCH HSE RD

CR 439/COLWELL RD

CR 445/HUNDLEY RD

CR 447/DYE MOUND

CR 487/LITTLEFIELD

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