Total bridges
101
Public highway bridges in Randall County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
Good condition
39.6%
40 of 101 rated 7-9
Fair condition
60.4%
61 of 101 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
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.
When Randall County's bridges were built
101 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1930s 8
1930–1939
8 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
16 bridges
- 1960s 10
1960–1969
10 bridges
- 1970s 6
1970–1979
6 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
30 bridges
- 1990s 5
1990–1999
5 bridges
- 2000s 3
2000–2009
3 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
18 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
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.
| 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 bridges (101)
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainBridges
Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.