Total bridges
345
Public highway bridges in Navarro County
County profile · official public datasets
Navarro County, TX
345 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.6% rated Good, 58.3% Fair, 1.2% Poor.
- 345
- Public bridges
- 40.6%
- Good condition
- 1.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Navarro County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 142nd
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 345
- public highway bridges
- 1979
- 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.
Navarro County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Navarro County ranks #142 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.2%). Navarro County, Texas contains 345 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.6% are rated “Good,” 58.3% “Fair,” and 1.2% “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
40.6%
140 of 345 rated 7-9
Fair condition
58.3%
201 of 345 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.2%
4 of 345 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#142 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 345 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40.6% (140)
Fair 58.3% (201)
Poor 1.2% (4)
Navarro County's Poor-condition bridges carry 310 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 78 crossings a day against 4,633 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 345 of 345 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
47% of Navarro County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
162 of the 345 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 40.6% 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 32.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CR NE 0070 over Chambers Creek, built 2014, 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 310 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Navarro County's bridges were built
345 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1920s 4
1920–1929
4 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
29 bridges
- 1940s 14
1940–1949
14 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
43 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
57 bridges
- 1970s 16
1970–1979
16 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
33 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
44 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
46 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
44 bridges
- 2020s 14
2020–2029
14 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 57 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 16.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Texas average (1980).
How Navarro County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Navarro County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.2% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron County | 355 | 62% | 37.5% | 0.6% | 1992 |
| Parker County | 350 | 49.7% | 49.1% | 1.1% | 1985 |
| Navarro County (this page) | 345 | 40.6% | 58.3% | 1.2% | 1979 |
| Galveston County | 344 | 57.6% | 39.5% | 2.9% | 1987 |
| Victoria County | 344 | 70.1% | 27.6% | 2.3% | 1979 |
| Bowie County | 331 | 46.5% | 52.9% | 0.6% | 1975 |
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 Navarro 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 Navarro County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (345 bridges here).
- Macon County, IL · 346 bridges
- Dubuque County, IA · 346 bridges
- Shelby County, AL · 344 bridges
- DuPage County, IL · 344 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1979 here).
- Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
- Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
- Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
- McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (201)
SH 31
FairOver: MASSACRE CREEK
1.15 MI NE OF HILL C/L, Navarro, TX
Built 1941 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,817
SH 31
FairOver: ABBOTT CREEK
4.00 MI NE OF HILL C/L, Navarro, TX
Built 1947 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 5,663
FM 709
FairOver: DRAW
1.05 MI N OF FM 638, Navarro, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 446
FM 709
FairOver: DRAW
5.80 MI SW OF FM 2452, Navarro, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 180
FM 709
FairOver: DRAW
0.65 MI E OF FM 638, Navarro, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 150
SH 31
FairOver: E FK COW CREEK
2.50 MI E OF SH 309, Navarro, TX
Built 1931 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 6,451
IH45 WFR
FairOver: ELM CREEK
1.7 MI NW OF FM 246, Navarro, TX
Built 1929 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
IH 45 ML & EFR
FairOver: ELM CREEK
1.70 MI NW OF FM 246, Navarro, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 34,143
IH45 AND EFR
FairOver: DRAW
1.20 MI N OF FM 246, Navarro, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 34,143
SH 309
FairOver: DRAW
5.35 MI S OF SH 31, Navarro, TX
Built 1939 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 863
FM 633
FairOver: DE ARMAN BR
1.20 MI S OF SH 31, Navarro, TX
Built 1947 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 298
FM 1838
FairOver: DAWSON CREEK
0.70 MI S OF FM 709, Navarro, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 282
FM 1838
FairOver: BATTLE CREEK
1.00 MI S OF FM 709, Navarro, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 282
FM 1838
FairOver: ALLIGATOR CREEK
2.15 MI SW OF FM 638, Navarro, TX
Built 1963 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 120
FM 1393
FairOver: DRAW
1.20 MI W OF SH 309, Navarro, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 331
FM 1126
FairOver: DRAW
1.35 MI SE OF FM 2930, Navarro, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 631
FM 1126
FairOver: DRAW
2.20 MI SW OF FM 1839, Navarro, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 380
FM 744
FairOver: DRAW
0.03 MI E OF FM 1946, Navarro, TX
Built 1963 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 247
FM 744
FairOver: DRAW
1.00 MI NE OF FM 1126, Navarro, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,098
FM 744
FairOver: DRAW
0.4 MI SW OF FM 2555, Navarro, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,098
FM 3194
FairOver: PIN OAK CREEK RELIEF
1.30 MI SE OF FM 709, Navarro, TX
Built 1972 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 297
FM 2555
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
2.40 MI SW OF SH 31, Navarro, TX
Built 1986 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,176
FM 3041
FairOver: TUPELO BRANCH CREEK
2.00 MI W OF FM 1129, Navarro, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 690
FM 3383
FairOver: DRAW
5.55 MI NW OF SH 31, Navarro, TX
Built 1981 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 794
CR NW 2240
FairOver: E. TRIB. OF RUSH CRK
1.50 MI S OF SH 22, Navarro, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
CR SE 0190
FairOver: RUSH CREEK
0.80 MI FROM KERENS C/L, Navarro, TX
Built 2014 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
US 287
FairOver: LAKE HALBERT
1.80 MI SE OF IH45, Navarro, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 6,100
FM 709
FairOver: SEVEN MILE BRANCH
2.50 MI NE OF FM 2452, Navarro, TX
Built 1932 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,219
FM 709
FairOver: DRAW
1.65 MI S of SH 31, Navarro, TX
Built 1932 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,752
FM 709
FairOver: DRAW
0.80 MI S OF SH 31, Navarro, TX
Built 1932 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,908
FM 709
FairOver: BATTLE CREEK
1.40 MI E OF FM 1838, Navarro, TX
Built 1953 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 446
FM 635
FairOver: ALLIGATOR CREEK
0.40 MI E OF SH 309, Navarro, TX
Built 1948 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 165
FM 635
FairOver: GAR CREEK
1.20 MI E OF SH 309, Navarro, TX
Built 1948 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 165
CR NE 2120
FairOver: LITTLE RUSH CREEK
0.45 MI N OF SH 31, Navarro, TX
Built 2013 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 258
CR SE 3130
FairOver: CEDAR CREEK
1.1 MI SOUTH OF FM 2859, Navarro, TX
Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR SE 2160
FairOver: RICHLAND CREEK RES
0.5 MI SW OF CR SE 2140, Navarro, TX
Built 1988 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR SE 1090
FairOver: GRAPE CREEK
2.6 MI S OF JONES STREET, Navarro, TX
Built 1987 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 131
Midway Rd(SE 2370)
FairOver: Draw
2.1 Mi NE of FM 416, Navarro, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 200
FAIRFAX DRIVE
FairOver: POST OAK CREEK
0.15 MI SE of DOBBINS RD, Navarro, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
N MAIN STREET
FairOver: POST OAK CREEK
0.30 MI NW OF 1ST AVE, Navarro, TX
Built 1968 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,417
MIMOSA DRIVE
FairOver: POST OAK CREEK
0.14 MI SE OF DOBBINS RD, Navarro, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 329
Paloma Street
FairOver: Post Oak Creek Tributary
0.05 MI E OF PRINCETON DR, Navarro, TX
Built 1960 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 159
PARK ROW AVE
FairOver: MUDDY CREEK
0.81 MI SW OF FM 2555, Navarro, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,206
W.11TH AVENUE
FairOver: MESQUITE BRANCH TRIB
0.20 MI NE OF S 18TH ST, Navarro, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 203
W 13TH AVE
FairOver: MESQUITE BRANCH TRIB
0.10 MI SW OF SH 22, Navarro, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,750
SE CR 2230
FairOver: Coffee Creek
0.2 Mi SW of CR 2240, Navarro, TX
Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 50
FM 709
FairOver: DRAW
1.30 MI W OF FM 55, Navarro, TX
Built 1953 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 180
FM 1394
FairOver: IH45
JCT OF FM 1394, Navarro, TX
Built 1968 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 1,987
SW CR 3170
FairOver: Battle Creek
0.5 Mi SE of FM 709, Navarro, TX
Built 2000 Load: 25.4 t ADT: 10
FM 744
FairOver: Hackberry Creek
0.50 MI E OF FM 1946, Navarro, TX
Built 1963 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 247
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