Total bridges
419
Public highway bridges in Taylor County
County profile · official public datasets
Taylor County, TX
419 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 45.1% rated Good, 54.2% Fair, 0.7% Poor.
- 419
- Public bridges
- 45.1%
- Good condition
- 0.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Taylor 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
- 419
- public highway bridges
- 1967
- 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.
Taylor County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Taylor County ranks #116 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.7%). Taylor County, Texas contains 419 public highway bridges. Roughly 45.1% are rated “Good,” 54.2% “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
45.1%
189 of 419 rated 7-9
Fair condition
54.2%
227 of 419 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.7%
3 of 419 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#116 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 419 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 45.1% (189)
Fair 54.2% (227)
Poor 0.7% (3)
Taylor County's Poor-condition bridges carry 620 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0% 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 207 crossings a day against 5,399 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 419 of 419 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
70.2% of Taylor County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
294 of the 419 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 45.1% 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 84.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
E South 7th St over CEDAR CREEK, built 1955, carries 522 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 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 620 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Taylor County's bridges were built
419 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 38
1920–1929
38 bridges
- 1930s 8
1930–1939
8 bridges
- 1940s 22
1940–1949
22 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
120 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
96 bridges
- 1970s 14
1970–1979
14 bridges
- 1980s 23
1980–1989
23 bridges
- 1990s 29
1990–1999
29 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
50 bridges
- 2010s 16
2010–2019
16 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 120 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 28.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1967, 13 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Taylor County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Taylor County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.7% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1967 against a peer-group mean of 1982 is 15 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith County | 427 | 47.1% | 51.5% | 1.4% | 1981 |
| Taylor County (this page) | 419 | 45.1% | 54.2% | 0.7% | 1967 |
| Hidalgo County | 405 | 47.4% | 51.6% | 1% | 1990 |
| Hill County | 405 | 41% | 58% | 1% | 1982 |
| Johnson County | 404 | 49.5% | 50.5% | 0% | 1985 |
| Wichita County | 399 | 41.4% | 57.9% | 0.8% | 1971 |
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 Taylor 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 Taylor County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (419 bridges here).
- Kay County, OK · 419 bridges
- Lewis County, WA · 419 bridges
- Santa Barbara County, CA · 418 bridges
- Lucas County, OH · 418 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1967 here).
- Los Angeles County, CA · avg 1967 · 3,547 bridges
- Allegheny County, PA · avg 1967 · 1,294 bridges
- Sonoma County, CA · avg 1967 · 609 bridges
- Merced County, CA · avg 1967 · 528 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (419)
FM 1235
FairOver: DRAW
12.50 MI S OF BUS 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 429
FM 1235
FairOver: DRAW
7.55 MI S OF BUS 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 307
FM 1235
FairOver: DRAW
8.00 MI S OF BUS 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 307
FM 1235
FairOver: DRAW
8.45 MI S OF BUS 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1957 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 307
FM 89
FairOver: ELM CREEK
3.65 MI E OF US 277, Taylor, TX
Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 332
FM 126
FairOver: DRAW
5.95 MI S OF FM 1085, Taylor, TX
Built 1954 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 135
FM 126
FairOver: MULBERRY CREEK
1.90 MI S OF FM 1085, Taylor, TX
Built 1954 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 135
FM 126
FairOver: NUBIA CREEK
3.00 MI S OF FM 1085, Taylor, TX
Built 1954 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 135
FM 614
FairOver: DRAW
1.85 MI W OF US 84, Taylor, TX
Built 1962 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 144
FM 614
FairOver: NORTH JIM NED CREEK
0.30 MI W OF US 84, Taylor, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 144
FM 382
FairOver: RED BANK CREEK
2.55 MI S OF FM 614, Taylor, TX
Built 1959 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 225
FM 1085
FairOver: NOODLE CREEK
0.90 MI S OF IH 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1954 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 130
FM 1085
FairOver: DRAW
5.15 MI S OF IH 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1959 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
LOOP 322
FairOver: RAINY CREEK RELIEF
0.75 MI S OF IH 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1963 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 10,939
LOOP 322
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
5.30 MI S OF IH 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1969 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 11,437
LOOP 322 E FRTG RD
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
5.30 MI S OF IH 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1981 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 5,800
POTOSI RD (CR 107)
FairOver: LYTLE CRK TRIB
1.8 MI N OF FM 707, Taylor, TX
Built 1990 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 699
CR 149
FairOver: CEDAR CREEK
0.55 MI W OF US 83, Taylor, TX
Built 1999 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 421
CR 186
FairOver: BLUFF CREEK
1.20 MI N OF FM 1086, Taylor, TX
Built 1997 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 14
CR 365
FairOver: NOODLE CREEK
0.1 MI S OF FM 1085, Taylor, TX
Built 1997 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 107
AMBLER AVE
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
1.60 MI E OF MOCKINGBIRD, Taylor, TX
Built 1958 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 12,173
EAST NORTH 10TH ST
FairOver: RAINY CREEK
2.40 MI E OF BUS US 83, Taylor, TX
Built 1983 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,808
N 1ST ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
5 BLKS E OF MOCKINGBIRD, Taylor, TX
Built 1952 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 7,513
N 6TH ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
0.40 mi E of MOCKINGBIRD, Taylor, TX
Built 1953 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,379
N 10TH ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
1.9 MI E OF US 83, Taylor, TX
Built 1967 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,372
STATE ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
0.4 MI E OF MOCKINGBIRD, Taylor, TX
Built 1965 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,102
ANTILLEY RD
FairOver: ELM CREEK
1.10 MI W OF FM 89, Taylor, TX
Built 1982 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,730
ANTILLEY RD
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
0.1 MI W OF FM 87, Taylor, TX
Built 1983 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 9,144
REBECCA LANE
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
0.80 MI W OF FM 89, Taylor, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 11,208
REBECCA LANE
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
1.80 MI W OF FM 89, Taylor, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 11,208
REBECCA LANE
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
2.30 MI W OF FM 89, Taylor, TX
Built 1991 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 11,208
S 3RD ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
1.7 MI W OF SH 243, Taylor, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,061
S 5TH ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
0.3 MI S OF SH 355, Taylor, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 381
S 7TH ST
FairOver: LITTLE ELM CREEK
0.65 MI E OF SPUR 312, Taylor, TX
Built 1970 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 7,325
S 9TH ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
1.8 MI W OF SH 243, Taylor, TX
Built 1955 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 474
S 23RD ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
1.7 MI W OF SH 243, Taylor, TX
Built 1959 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,677
S 27TH STREET
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
0.6 MI NE OF US 83, Taylor, TX
Built 1963 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 13,119
WILLIS ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
1.1 MI S OF SH 355, Taylor, TX
Built 1950 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 4,301
CAT CLAW DR
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
0.30 MI SE OF SOUTHWEST, Taylor, TX
Built 1984 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 13,609
NORTH 1st St
FairOver: MOCKINGBIRD LANE
0.05 MI N OF BUS LOOP 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1959 Load: 24.2 t ADT: 7,513
IH 20 & FR
FairOver: DRAW
1.95 MI E OF FM 126, Taylor, TX
Built 1921 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 26,267
BUS LP 20 (N)
FairOver: NOODLE CREEK
0.20 MI E OF FM 1085, Taylor, TX
Built 1928 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 389
BUS LP 20 (P)
FairOver: E FORK BITTER CREEK
0.55 MI E OF FM 126, Taylor, TX
Built 1921 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,980
BUS LOOP 20 (R)
FairOver: CATCLAW CREEK
1.90 MI E OF US 83, Taylor, TX
Built 1928 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 7,335
FM 1235
FairOver: MULBERRY CREEK
4.00 MI S OF BUS 20, Taylor, TX
Built 1955 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 194
FM 707
FairOver: BULL WAGON CREEK
1.55 MI S OF JONES C/L, Taylor, TX
Built 1952 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,610
BUS 20 S FR
FairOver: Little Elm Crk W Relief
0.10 MI E OF FM 3438, Taylor, TX
Built 1955 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 6,690
CR 154
FairOver: BNSF RR
3.10 MI W OF US 83, Taylor, TX
Built 1969 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 48
VOGEL ST
FairOver: CAT CLAW CREEK
0.28 MI W OF OLD ANSON RD, Taylor, TX
Built 1965 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 406
ANTILLEY RD
FairOver: BUTTONWILLOW CREEK
1.5 MI W OF US 83, Taylor, TX
Built 1944 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10,424
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