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.
All bridges (399)
SH 240
FairOver: TENTH CAVALRY CREEK
8.8 MI E OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 526
SH 240
FairOver: COLE CREEK
0.70 MI W OF FM 1739, Wichita, TX
Built 1925 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 460
SH 240
FairOver: LONG CREEK
3.1 MI E OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1925 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 472
SH 240
FairOver: CHINA CREEK
0.9 MI W OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1938 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 576
FM 1177
FairOver: TRIB OF GILBERT CREEK
0.15 MI E OF SH 240, Wichita, TX
Built 1930 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,109
SH 258
FairOver: ANTELOPE CREEK
1.5 MI W OF FM 368, Wichita, TX
Built 1939 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,258
SH 258
FairOver: DEER CREEK
1.7 MI E OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1939 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 626
SH 258
FairOver: TURKEY CREEK
0.9 MI E OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1939 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 452
FM 171
FairOver: DRAW
1.6 MI NE OF FM 890, Wichita, TX
Built 1959 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 383
FM 367
FairOver: FLAT CREEK
1.8 MI E OF FM 2384, Wichita, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 292
FM 369
FairOver: GILBERT CREEK
4.15 MI S OF SH 240, Wichita, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 1,346
FM 369
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
2.25 MI W OF FM 2380, Wichita, TX
Built 1966 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 14,829
FM 1811
FairOver: DRAW
1.0 MI W OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1956 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 213
FM 2384
FairOver: DRAW
0.1 MI S OF BUS 287/LP477, Wichita, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 2384
FairOver: SOUTH FORK BUFFALO CREEK
1.0 MI S OF BUS 287/LP477, Wichita, TX
Built 1960 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
FM 1634
FairOver: WICHITA RIVER
0.80 MI S OF FM 367, Wichita, TX
Built 1968 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 2,280
CR 152/ WOLF RD
FairOver: LONG CREEK
3.15 MI E OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1996 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 100
MAPLEWOOD ST
FairOver: DRAINAGE DITCH
0.10 MI S OF KEMP BLVD, Wichita, TX
Built 1974 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 7,579
MIDWESTERN EB
FairOver: MC GRATH CREEK
1.30 MI E OF KEMP BLVD, Wichita, TX
Built 1997 Load: 23.6 t ADT: 9,284
US 287 SB
FairOver: BURNETT CREEK
2.6 MI E OF BUS 287, Wichita, TX
Built 1921 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 8,320
US 287
FairOver: DRAW
2.8 MI E OF BUS 287/LP477, Wichita, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 12,227
US 287 NB
FairOver: SPUR 325 CONN.
0.42 MI E OF LOOP 11, Wichita, TX
Built 1961 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 22,693
LOOP 11
FairOver: WICHITA RIVER
0.17 MI N OF US 277, Wichita, TX
Built 1926 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 12,154
BUS 287 (LOOP 477)
FairOver: SOUTH FORK BUFFALO CREEK
3.0 MI E OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1920 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,200
US 287 NB
FairOver: US 82 THRU 7TH ST
AT JCT OF US 82 (KELL), Wichita, TX
Built 1963 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 23,825
US 287 SB
FairOver: US 82 THRU 7TH ST
AT JCT OF US 82 (KELL), Wichita, TX
Built 1963 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 23,043
BUS 287/LOOP 370
FairOver: Wichita River
1.2 MI SE OF IH 44, Wichita, TX
Built 1929 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 5,914
SH 79 NB
FairOver: SH 79 SB CONN/FM 369 WB
2.20 MI S OF US 82, Wichita, TX
Built 1968 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 7,684
SH 258
FairOver: DRAW
0.4 MI E OF FM 368, Wichita, TX
Built 1925 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,751
FM 171
FairOver: DRAW
4.8 MI NE OF FM 890, Wichita, TX
Built 1935 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 358
FM 171
FairOver: DRAW
6.0 MI NE OF FM 890, Wichita, TX
Built 1935 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 358
FM 367
FairOver: EAST FORK OF POND CREEK
0.6 MI W OF LOOP 11, Wichita, TX
Built 1935 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 743
FM 367
FairOver: DEEP CREEK
1.6 MI W OF FM 368, Wichita, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 292
FM 367
FairOver: DRAW
0.40 MI W OF FM 368, Wichita, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,593
FM 368
FairOver: ANTELOPE CREEK
1.9 MI N OF SH 258, Wichita, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 716
FM 368
FairOver: CALL FIELD CANAL
0.5 MI S OF SH 258, Wichita, TX
Built 1947 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 816
FM 1206
FairOver: DEER CREEK
0.8 MI W OF FM 2226, Wichita, TX
Built 1961 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 189
FM 1739
FairOver: DRAW
0.5 MI N OF BUS 287/LP477, Wichita, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 341
FM 1740
FairOver: DRAW
3.5 MI NE OF FM 171, Wichita, TX
Built 1962 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 253
FM 3429
FairOver: TRIB OF GILBERT CREEK
0.65 MI NW OF IH 44, Wichita, TX
Built 1931 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 5,150
CR122/PANHANDLE RD
FairOver: GILBERT CREEK
0.6 MI N OF CO RD 121, Wichita, TX
Built 1937 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 20
CR126/SLAMA ROAD
FairOver: DRAW
2.4 MI SE OF CO RD 132, Wichita, TX
Built 1935 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 70
CR129/MULLER ROAD
FairOver: WILDHORSE CREEK
1.10 MI N OF SH 240, Wichita, TX
Built 1955 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10
CR130/BRIDGETOWN
FairOver: WILDHORSE CREEK
0.55 MI N OF SH 240, Wichita, TX
Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR 152/ WOLF RD
FairOver: CHINA CREEK
2.10 MI E OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1963 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR 157/ KROHN RD
FairOver: CHINA CREEK
1.20 MI N OF SH 240, Wichita, TX
Built 1970 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR 158/ E LALK RD
FairOver: LONG CREEK
3.25 MI E OF SH 25, Wichita, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 70
CR162/BACON SWITCH
FairOver: DRAW
1.6 MI W OF IH 44, Wichita, TX
Built 1943 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 298
CR223/WYETH ROAD
FairOver: GILBERT CREEK
0.5 MI N OF CO RD 121, Wichita, TX
Built 1940 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
CR260/FULFER ROAD
FairOver: SOUTH SIDE CANAL
1.20 MI S OF SH 258, Wichita, TX
Built 1950 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100
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