Total bridges
138
Public highway bridges in Scurry County
County profile · official public datasets
Scurry County, TX
138 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 48.6% rated Good, 50.7% Fair, 0.7% Poor.
- 138
- Public bridges
- 48.6%
- Good condition
- 0.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Scurry 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 47%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 138
- 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.
Scurry County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Scurry County ranks #117 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.7%). Scurry County, Texas contains 138 public highway bridges. Roughly 48.6% are rated “Good,” 50.7% “Fair,” and 0.7% “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
48.6%
67 of 138 rated 7-9
Fair condition
50.7%
70 of 138 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.7%
1 of 138 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#117 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 138 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 48.6% (67)
Fair 50.7% (70)
Poor 0.7% (1)
Scurry County's Poor-condition bridges carry 611 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 611 crossings a day against 2,702 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 138 of 138 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
78.3% of Scurry County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
108 of the 138 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 48.6% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
AVENUE E / FM 1673 over US 84, built 1963, carries 611 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 611 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Scurry County's bridges were built
138 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 14
1930–1939
14 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
23 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
38 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
31 bridges
- 1970s 4
1970–1979
4 bridges
- 1980s 5
1980–1989
5 bridges
- 1990s 9
1990–1999
9 bridges
- 2000s 10
2000–2009
10 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 38 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1962, 18 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Scurry County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Scurry County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1962 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is 8 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culberson County | 139 | 43.2% | 56.8% | 0% | 1963 |
| Lee County | 139 | 44.6% | 54% | 1.4% | 1980 |
| Upshur County | 139 | 46% | 54% | 0% | 1968 |
| Wilson County | 139 | 67.6% | 30.2% | 2.2% | 1966 |
| Scurry County (this page) | 138 | 48.6% | 50.7% | 0.7% | 1962 |
| Robertson County | 137 | 32.8% | 63.5% | 3.6% | 1973 |
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 Scurry 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 Scurry County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (138 bridges here).
- Santa Cruz County, AZ · 138 bridges
- Hancock County, IA · 138 bridges
- Boone County, KY · 138 bridges
- Ralls County, MO · 138 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 (70)
26TH ST
FairOver: DRY RUN CREEK
0.30 MI E OF SH 350, Scurry, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 182
27TH ST
FairOver: DEEP CREEK
0.10 MI W OF SH 350, Scurry, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 312
28th Street
FairOver: Deep Creek
0.05 MI East of Ave T, Scurry, TX
Built 1980 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 204
US 180
FairOver: S FORK OF DEEP CREEK
0.25 MI W OF FM 1607, Scurry, TX
Built 1940 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 3,617
US 84 WB
FairOver: SH 208
4.4 MI SE OF FM 1611, Scurry, TX
Built 1963 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 7,508
US 84 EB
FairOver: SH 208
4.4 MI SE OF FM 1611, Scurry, TX
Built 1963 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 9,186
FM 1606
FairOver: DEEP CREEK
1.3 MI W OF SH 208, Scurry, TX
Built 1987 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 574
US 180
FairOver: MOOAR CREEK
2.77 MI E BORDEN CO LN, Scurry, TX
Built 1940 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 1,353
US 180
FairOver: BLUFF CREEK
0.3 MI W OF FM 1606, Scurry, TX
Built 1940 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 1,353
SH 208
FairOver: HELL ROARING HOLLOW
1.35 MI S OF FM 2763, Scurry, TX
Built 1949 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 1,785
FM 1611
FairOver: US 84
4.50 MI NW OF SH 208, Scurry, TX
Built 1966 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 8,470
SH 350
FairOver: COLORADO RIVER
1.25 MI N MITCHELL CO LN, Scurry, TX
Built 1949 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 1,760
SH 208
FairOver: BIG SULPHUR CREEK
0.75 MI S OF FM 1606, Scurry, TX
Built 1940 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 1,865
FM 2763
FairOver: DEEP CREEK
2.24 MI E OF SH 350, Scurry, TX
Built 1973 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 1,705
US 180
FairOver: US 84
1.1 Mi NW of BUS 84, Scurry, TX
Built 2013 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,500
SH 208
FairOver: BYRD HOLLOW
1.3 MI S OF FM 1606, Scurry, TX
Built 1940 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,865
SH 208
FairOver: LITTLE SULPHUR CREEK
3.4 MI S OF FM 1606, Scurry, TX
Built 1940 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,865
SH 350
FairOver: CANYON CREEK
0.80 MI NE OF FM 1609, Scurry, TX
Built 1950 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,857
FM 1610
FairOver: BULL CRK DIVERSION CANAL
3.0 MI W OF FM 1298, Scurry, TX
Built 1993 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 100
CO RD 397
FairOver: CANYON CREEK
0.5 MI N OF FM 1606, Scurry, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 119
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