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Randall County, TX

101 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 39.6% rated Good, 60.4% Fair, 0% Poor.

101
Public bridges: 39.6%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Randall County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 12%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 101
public highway bridges: 1981
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.

Randall County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Randall County ranks #30 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Randall County, Texas contains 101 public highway bridges. Roughly 39.6% are rated “Good,” 60.4% “Fair,” and 0% “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

101

Public highway bridges in Randall County

Good condition

39.6%

40 of 101 rated 7-9

Fair condition

60.4%

61 of 101 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 101 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#30 of 247

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

Condition distribution

Share of 101 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

39.6% (40)

Fair

60.4% (61)

Poor

0% (0)

36.6% of Randall County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

37 of the 101 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 39.6% 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.

1920s

1
1930s

8
1950s

16
1960s

10
1970s

6
1980s

30
1990s

5
2000s

3
2010s

18
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 30 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 29.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1981) matches the Texas average (1980).

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

The 5 Texas counties nearest Randall County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 13 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Randall County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Wheeler County	104	38.5%	57.7%	3.8%	1967
Uvalde County	103	59.2%	40.8%	0%	1961
Calhoun County	101	65.3%	34.7%	0%	1975
Randall County (this page)	101	39.6%	60.4%	0%	1981
Coke County	99	42.4%	57.6%	0%	1953
Delta County	99	57.6%	42.4%	0%	1983

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (101 bridges here).

Phillips County, AR · 101 bridges
Gilmer County, GA · 101 bridges
Beltrami County, MN · 101 bridges
Phillips County, MT · 101 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1981 here).

Franklin County, OH · avg 1981 · 922 bridges
Greenville County, SC · avg 1981 · 635 bridges
Montgomery County, OH · avg 1981 · 632 bridges
McLean County, IL · avg 1981 · 624 bridges

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

All 101 Good 40 Fair 61 Poor 0

Good-condition bridges (40)

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Randall County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

36.6% of Randall County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Randall 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

Good-condition bridges (40)

IH 27

IH 27

FM 168

FM 1714

FM 2219

FM 2219

FM 1075

FM 1075

E Cemetery Rd

Pondaseta Rd

SH 217

SH 217

FM 1075

CR 233 (Haley Rd)

Buffalo Stadium Rd

IH 27 NBFR

IH 27

FM 2219

Rockwell Rd

CR 214 (Ctry Club)

IH 27 NB

IH 27 SB

SH 217

PR 5

PR 5

PR 5

Park Road #5

Park Road 5

Park Road #5

FM 1541

FM 168

LP 335 NBFR

SLP 335 WB

SLP 335

SLP 335 EB

SLP 335 WB

SLP 335 EB

LP 335 EB

LP 335 WB

W Cemetery Rd

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