Total bridges
399
Public highway bridges in Wichita County
County profile · official public datasets
Wichita County, TX
399 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 41.4% rated Good, 57.9% Fair, 0.8% Poor.
- 399
- Public bridges
- 41.4%
- Good condition
- 0.8%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Wichita 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 49%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0.8%
- Poor-condition share
- 399
- public highway bridges
- 1971
- 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.
Wichita County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wichita County ranks #120 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.8%). Wichita County, Texas contains 399 public highway bridges. Roughly 41.4% are rated “Good,” 57.9% “Fair,” and 0.8% “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
41.4%
165 of 399 rated 7-9
Fair condition
57.9%
231 of 399 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0.8%
3 of 399 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#120 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 399 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 41.4% (165)
Fair 57.9% (231)
Poor 0.8% (3)
Wichita County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,024 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 675 crossings a day against 9,099 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 399 of 399 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
65.7% of Wichita County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
262 of the 399 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 41.4% 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 59.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
BUS 287 (LOOP 477) over DRAW, built 1919, carries 1,200 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 2,024 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Wichita County's bridges were built
399 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s 3
1910–1919
3 bridges
- 1920s 20
1920–1929
20 bridges
- 1930s 33
1930–1939
33 bridges
- 1940s 15
1940–1949
15 bridges
- 1950s 21
1950–1959
21 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
143 bridges
- 1970s 46
1970–1979
46 bridges
- 1980s 14
1980–1989
14 bridges
- 1990s 26
1990–1999
26 bridges
- 2000s 56
2000–2009
56 bridges
- 2010s 18
2010–2019
18 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 143 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 35.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1971, 9 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Wichita County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Wichita County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.8% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1971 against a peer-group mean of 1980 is 9 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor County | 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 (this page) | 399 | 41.4% | 57.9% | 0.8% | 1971 |
| Webb County | 383 | 49.6% | 48.8% | 1.6% | 1977 |
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 Wichita 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 Wichita County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (399 bridges here).
- Bradford County, PA · 399 bridges
- Crawford County, PA · 399 bridges
- Muskogee County, OK · 398 bridges
- Sumner County, TN · 398 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1971 here).
- Wayne County, MI · avg 1971 · 1,026 bridges
- Baltimore County, MD · avg 1971 · 783 bridges
- Washington County, PA · avg 1971 · 655 bridges
- Linn County, OR · avg 1971 · 566 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (165)
OLD BURK HWY
GoodOver: PLUM CREEK
1.45 MI S OF FM 890, Wichita, TX
Built 1938 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 114
MAURINE ST (MH890)
GoodOver: DRAW
0.1 MI E OF IH 44, Wichita, TX
Built 1992 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 3,351
MIDWESTERN PKWY
GoodOver: DRAW
0.10 MI E OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1970 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,406
PAMARIV ROAD
GoodOver: POND CREEK
0.45 MI S OF B 287J, Wichita, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,070
FM 369 WB
GoodOver: SH 79 SB & LOOP 473
0.60 MI W OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1968 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 3,042
IH 44 SB
GoodOver: BUS 287J & BNSF RR
1.40 MI N OF BUS 277, Wichita, TX
Built 2001 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 34,390
IH 44 NB
GoodOver: BUS 287J & BNSF RR
1.40 MI N OF BUS 277, Wichita, TX
Built 2001 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 34,268
US 281 NB/SH 79 NB
GoodOver: HATTON RD
1.20 MI S OF US 82, Wichita, TX
Built 1968 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 15,169
SH 79 NB
GoodOver: BNSF RR & BUS 287
0.7 MI N OF US 82, Wichita, TX
Built 1972 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 3,121
IH 44 SB
GoodOver: N 8TH ST
0.3 MI S OF B287J/LP 370, Wichita, TX
Built 2001 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 34,390
IH 44 NB
GoodOver: N 8TH ST
0.3 MI S OF B287/LP 370, Wichita, TX
Built 2001 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 34,268
MISSILE RD WB
GoodOver: IH 44
2.68 MI N OF US 287, Wichita, TX
Built 1964 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 6,480
SH 79 NB
GoodOver: SH 79 SB TO US 82 EB CON
0.45 MI S OF BUS 287, Wichita, TX
Built 1972 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 3,121
IH 44 SB ENT RAMP
GoodOver: 7TH & 8TH STREETS
1.4 MI S OF BU 287J/LP370, Wichita, TX
Built 2001 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 18,528
HUNTINGTON ROAD
GoodOver: US 287
0.75 MI E OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 2016 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 270
Wellington Road
GoodOver: US 287
1.65 MI E OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 2018 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 760
RIFLE RANGE ROAD
GoodOver: US 287
1.3 MI W OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 2018 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 280
BUS 287J/OLD LP370
GoodOver: BNSF RR & JEFFERSON ST
0.65 MI E OF IH 44, Wichita, TX
Built 2004 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,211
BU 287 (LOOP 370)
GoodOver: MIDDLE FORK POND CREEK
0.44 MI W OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,020
US 277 NB ALIGN D
GoodOver: US 281/US 287
0.4 MI E OF BROOK ST, Wichita, TX
Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 13,660
US 82 EB ALIGN R
GoodOver: US 82 EB FR
0.4 MI E OF BROOK ST, Wichita, TX
Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,180
US 82 WB ALIGN T
GoodOver: US 281 / US 287
0.3 MI N OF SPUR 473, Wichita, TX
Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,000
US 277 SB ALIGN C
GoodOver: US 82 WB FR
0.8 MI S OF 6TH ST, Wichita, TX
Built 2007 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,500
SH 25
GoodOver: DRAW
2.5 MI S OF SH 240, Wichita, TX
Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,447
SH 25
GoodOver: DRAW
0.8 MI SOUTH OF SH 240, Wichita, TX
Built 2010 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 485
SH 25
GoodOver: TURKEY CREEK
0.75 MI SE OF FM 2326, Wichita, TX
Built 2006 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 449
SH 25
GoodOver: BEAVER CREEK
0.15 MI S OF FM 367, Wichita, TX
Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 449
SH 240
GoodOver: WICHITA RIVER
0.5 MI S OF FM 171, Wichita, TX
Built 1958 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 6,604
SH 240 WB
GoodOver: HOLLIDAY CREEK
0.6 MI SE OF LP 447, Wichita, TX
Built 2000 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,560
US 82 WB/US 277 SB
GoodOver: BN RR(FUT ALEXANDRIA ST)
2.0 MI E OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 1977 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 14,190
US 82 EB/US 277 NB
GoodOver: BN RR(FUT ALEXANDRIA ST)
2.0 MI E OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 1977 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 14,190
US 82 EB (KELL)
GoodOver: TAFT BLVD.
1.6 MI SW OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1989 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 28,178
US 82 WB (KELL)
GoodOver: TAFT BLVD.
1.6 MI SW OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1989 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 29,733
US 82 EB (KELL)
GoodOver: HARRISON STREET
1.2 MI W OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 28,178
US 82 WB (KELL)
GoodOver: HARRISON STREET
1.2 MI W OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 29,733
US 82 EB (KELL)
GoodOver: BROOK AVE
0.7 MI W OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20,279
US 82 WB (KELL)
GoodOver: BROOK AVE
0.7 MI W OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 21,380
US 82 WB EXIT RAMP
GoodOver: US 82 WB ENT. RAMP
0.9 MI W OF US 281, Wichita, TX
Built 1990 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,430
US 82 WB/US 277 SB
GoodOver: MCNEIL AVE.
3.3 MI W OF US 287, Wichita, TX
Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20,960
US 82 EB/US 277 NB
GoodOver: MCNEIL AVE
3.3 MI W OF US 287, Wichita, TX
Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 20,960
US 82 WB
GoodOver: FM 369
2.5 MI E OF SH 258, Wichita, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,529
US 82 EB
GoodOver: FM 369
2.5 MI E OF SH 258, Wichita, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,146
US 82 WB
GoodOver: FM 2650
0.65 MI E OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 14,826
US 82 EB
GoodOver: FM 2650
0.65 MI E OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,030
US 82 WB
GoodOver: BARNETT RD
1.61 MI E OF FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 14,826
US 82 EB
GoodOver: BARNETT RD
1.61 MI E FM 369, Wichita, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 16,636
IH 44 NB
GoodOver: EAST RD
3.05 MI S OF FM 3429, Wichita, TX
Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 11,982
IH 44 SB
GoodOver: EAST RD
3.05 MI S OF FM 3429, Wichita, TX
Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 11,208
IH 44 SB
GoodOver: RED RIVER
AT OKLAHOMA STATE LINE, Wichita, TX
Built 2003 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,000
FM 890
GoodOver: IH 44
AT JCT OF FM 890 & IH 44, Wichita, TX
Built 2009 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 4,470
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