Total bridges
344
Public highway bridges in Victoria County
County profile · official public datasets
Victoria County, TX
344 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 70.1% rated Good, 27.6% Fair, 2.3% Poor.
- 344
- Public bridges
- 70.1%
- Good condition
- 2.3%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Victoria County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- 190th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 2.3%
- Poor-condition share
- 344
- public highway bridges
- 1979
- 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.
Victoria County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Victoria County ranks #190 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.3%). Victoria County, Texas contains 344 public highway bridges. Roughly 70.1% are rated “Good,” 27.6% “Fair,” and 2.3% “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
70.1%
241 of 344 rated 7-9
Fair condition
27.6%
95 of 344 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.3%
8 of 344 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#190 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 344 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 70.1% (241)
Fair 27.6% (95)
Poor 2.3% (8)
Victoria County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,524 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 316 crossings a day against 6,660 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 344 of 344 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
44.2% of Victoria County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
152 of the 344 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 70.1% 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 49.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
FM 1685 over DRAW, built 1972, carries 1,254 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 8-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 2,524 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Victoria County's bridges were built
344 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 6
1920–1929
6 bridges
- 1930s 10
1930–1939
10 bridges
- 1940s 5
1940–1949
5 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
45 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
68 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
49 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
40 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
41 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
41 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
32 bridges
- 2020s 7
2020–2029
7 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 68 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the Texas average (1980).
How Victoria County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Victoria County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.3% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1984 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron County | 355 | 62% | 37.5% | 0.6% | 1992 |
| Parker County | 350 | 49.7% | 49.1% | 1.1% | 1985 |
| Navarro County | 345 | 40.6% | 58.3% | 1.2% | 1979 |
| Galveston County | 344 | 57.6% | 39.5% | 2.9% | 1987 |
| Victoria County (this page) | 344 | 70.1% | 27.6% | 2.3% | 1979 |
| Bowie County | 331 | 46.5% | 52.9% | 0.6% | 1975 |
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 Victoria 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 Victoria County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (344 bridges here).
- Shelby County, AL · 344 bridges
- DuPage County, IL · 344 bridges
- Kankakee County, IL · 344 bridges
- Cumberland County, ME · 344 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1979 here).
- Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
- Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
- Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
- McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (8)
BISCHOFF CEM RD
PoorOver: ARENOSA CREEK
1.9 MI SW OF FM 234, Victoria, TX
Built 1955 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 60
LOWER M VALLEY RD
PoorOver: DRAW
6.30 MI N OF FM 1685, Victoria, TX
Built 1957 Load: 8.2 t ADT: 470
DUPONT RD
PoorOver: VICTORIA BARGE CANAL
1.60 W OF OLD BLOOMINGTON, Victoria, TX
Built 1961 Load: 12.8 t ADT: 73
FM 1685
PoorOver: DRAW
5.95 MI E OF FM 236, Victoria, TX
Built 1972 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,254
OLD BLOOMINGTON RD
PoorOver: DRAW
0.7 MI S OF JCT FM 404, Victoria, TX
Built 1924 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 90
TIPTON RD
PoorOver: CASA BLANCA CREEK
1.6 MI N OF RAGSDALE ROAD, Victoria, TX
Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 110
FM 444
PoorOver: GARCITAS CREEK
6.37 MI S OF US 59, Victoria, TX
Built 1963 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 267
COLOGNE RD
PoorOver: DRAW
2.5 MI SE OF JCT US 59, Victoria, TX
Built 1958 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 200
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