Total bridges
470
Public highway bridges in Pecos County
County profile · official public datasets
Pecos County, TX
470 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 62.8% rated Good, 36.8% Fair, 0.4% Poor.
- 470
- Public bridges
- 62.8%
- Good condition
- 0.4%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pecos 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 40%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.4%
- Poor-condition share
- 470
- public highway bridges
- 1962
- 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.
Pecos County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pecos County ranks #100 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.4%). Pecos County, Texas contains 470 public highway bridges. Roughly 62.8% are rated “Good,” 36.8% “Fair,” and 0.4% “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
62.8%
295 of 470 rated 7-9
Fair condition
36.8%
173 of 470 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.4%
2 of 470 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#100 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 470 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 62.8% (295)
Fair 36.8% (173)
Poor 0.4% (2)
Pecos County's Poor-condition bridges carry 8,760 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,380 crossings a day against 3,141 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 470 of 470 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
60.9% of Pecos County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
286 of the 470 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 62.8% 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 50% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
IH 10 over DRAW, built 1975, carries 4,380 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 8,760 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Pecos County's bridges were built
470 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s
1930–1939
103 bridges
- 1940s 45
1940–1949
45 bridges
- 1950s 28
1950–1959
28 bridges
- 1960s 56
1960–1969
56 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
192 bridges
- 1980s 34
1980–1989
34 bridges
- 1990s 2
1990–1999
2 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2010s 4
2010–2019
4 bridges
- 2020s 5
2020–2029
5 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 192 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 40.9% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1962, 18 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Pecos County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Pecos County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.4% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1962 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 18 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grayson County | 513 | 40.5% | 57.7% | 1.8% | 1985 |
| Pecos County (this page) | 470 | 62.8% | 36.8% | 0.4% | 1962 |
| Jefferson County | 457 | 48.4% | 50.1% | 1.5% | 1977 |
| Hunt County | 456 | 51.8% | 47.6% | 0.7% | 1981 |
| Kaufman County | 452 | 46.5% | 52.4% | 1.1% | 1976 |
| Smith County | 427 | 47.1% | 51.5% | 1.4% | 1981 |
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 Pecos 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 Pecos County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (470 bridges here).
- Jasper County, MO · 471 bridges
- Le Flore County, OK · 469 bridges
- Onondaga County, NY · 472 bridges
- Orange County, NY · 472 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1962 here).
- Berks County, PA · avg 1962 · 667 bridges
- Bristol County, MA · avg 1962 · 384 bridges
- Norfolk County, MA · avg 1962 · 343 bridges
- Ottawa County, KS · avg 1962 · 295 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (173)
IH 10 WB
FairOver: SH 18
1.6 Mi E of US 285, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,455
IH 10 EB
FairOver: SH 18
1.6 Mi E of US 285, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,580
FM 1053
FairOver: IH 10
0.6 Mi E of SH 18, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,882
IH 10 WB
FairOver: NW AVE S ORIENT RR ETC
0.4 Mi E of FM 1053, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,939
IH 10 EB
FairOver: NW AVE S ORIENT RR ETC
0.4 Mi E of FM 1053, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,939
IH 10 EB
FairOver: 7-D RD
2.3 Mi E of SH 18, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,571
IH 10 WB
FairOver: 7-D RD
2.3 Mi E of SH 18, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,939
FM 2023
FairOver: IH 10
3.75 Mi E of US 67, Pecos, TX
Built 1975 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 90
US 190
FairOver: IH 10
12.7 Mi E of FM 11, Pecos, TX
Built 1978 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,471
IH 10 WB
FairOver: FM 2886
4.3 Mi E of FM 11, Pecos, TX
Built 1977 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 83
IH 10 EB
FairOver: FM 2886
4.3 Mi E of FM 11, Pecos, TX
Built 1977 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 83
US 285
FairOver: Comanche Creek
0.4 Mi S of BI 10, Pecos, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,368
Riley / Braden Rd
FairOver: IH 10
4.8 Mi W of US 67/FM1776, Pecos, TX
Built 1971 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 408
US 67 (FM 1776)
FairOver: IH 10
10.4 Mi W of SH 18, Pecos, TX
Built 1971 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,007
IH 10 EB
FairOver: BI 10
2.2 Mi W of SH 18, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,564
US 285
FairOver: IH 10
1.6 Mi W of SH 18, Pecos, TX
Built 1983 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,557
IH 10 WB
FairOver: Tunis Creek
4.2 Mi W of FM 11, Pecos, TX
Built 1975 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 4,007
US 285
FairOver: Big Canyon
9.0 Mi N of RM 2400, Pecos, TX
Built 1965 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 992
US 285
FairOver: COURTNEY CREEK TRIB
1.95 MI SE OF FM 1776, Pecos, TX
Built 1942 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 3,250
IH 10 SFR
FairOver: Tunis Creek
4.2 Mi W of FM 11, Pecos, TX
Built 1933 Load: 38.1 t ADT: 34
US 67 NB
FairOver: IH 10
14.40 Mi E of SH 18, Pecos, TX
Built 1974 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 652
IH 10
FairOver: DRAW
5.65 MI E OF FM 2023, Pecos, TX
Built 1975 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 8,015
US 385 / IH 10 BUS
FairOver: Comanche Creek
0.60 Mi E of US 285, Pecos, TX
Built 1931 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 6,644
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