Total bridges
158
Public highway bridges in Titus County
County profile · official public datasets
Titus County, TX
158 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 59.5% rated Good, 39.2% Fair, 1.3% Poor.
- 158
- Public bridges
- 59.5%
- Good condition
- 1.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Titus County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 149th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 158
- public highway bridges
- 1982
- 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.
Titus County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Titus County ranks #149 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.3%). Titus County, Texas contains 158 public highway bridges. Roughly 59.5% are rated “Good,” 39.2% “Fair,” and 1.3% “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
59.5%
94 of 158 rated 7-9
Fair condition
39.2%
62 of 158 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.3%
2 of 158 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#149 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 158 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 59.5% (94)
Fair 39.2% (62)
Poor 1.3% (2)
Titus County's Poor-condition bridges carry 766 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 383 crossings a day against 4,806 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 158 of 158 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
46.8% of Titus County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
74 of the 158 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 59.5% 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 64.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
FM 1402 over WHITE OAK CREEK, built 1963, carries 492 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 766 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Titus County's bridges were built
158 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1930s 11
1930–1939
11 bridges
- 1950s 15
1950–1959
15 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
44 bridges
- 1970s 9
1970–1979
9 bridges
- 1980s 13
1980–1989
13 bridges
- 1990s 14
1990–1999
14 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
22 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
29 bridges
- 2020s 1
2020–2029
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 44 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1982) matches the Texas average (1980).
How Titus County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Titus County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.3% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1967 is 15 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red River County | 163 | 44.2% | 55.8% | 0% | 1975 |
| Crockett County | 160 | 56.9% | 42.5% | 0.6% | 1965 |
| Leon County | 160 | 40.6% | 55.6% | 3.8% | 1976 |
| Runnels County | 158 | 46.2% | 51.3% | 2.5% | 1953 |
| Titus County (this page) | 158 | 59.5% | 39.2% | 1.3% | 1982 |
| Newton County | 157 | 40.8% | 55.4% | 3.8% | 1967 |
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 Titus 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 Titus County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (158 bridges here).
- Napa County, CA · 158 bridges
- Wells County, IN · 158 bridges
- Jackson County, MI · 158 bridges
- Yalobusha County, MS · 158 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1982 here).
- Oklahoma County, OK · avg 1982 · 1,216 bridges
- Jackson County, MO · avg 1982 · 930 bridges
- Milwaukee County, WI · avg 1982 · 893 bridges
- Champaign County, IL · avg 1982 · 727 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (2)
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