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Williamson County, TX

1,170 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 67.4% rated Good, 32.2% Fair, 0.3% Poor.

1,170
Public bridges
67.4%
Good condition
0.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Williamson County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.

Top 38%
lowest Poor share in state
0.3%
Poor-condition share
1,170
public highway bridges
1995
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.

Williamson County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Williamson County ranks #93 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0.3%). Williamson County, Texas contains 1,170 public highway bridges. Roughly 67.4% are rated “Good,” 32.2% “Fair,” and 0.3% “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.

Total bridges

1,170

Public highway bridges in Williamson County

Good condition

67.4%

789 of 1,170 rated 7-9

Fair condition

32.2%

377 of 1,170 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0.3%

4 of 1,170 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#93 of 247

Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 1,170 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
67.4% (789)
Fair
32.2% (377)
Poor
0.3% (4)

Williamson County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,734 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 0.3% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 434 crossings a day against 7,636 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 1,170 of 1,170 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

16.6% of Williamson County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

194 of the 1,170 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 67.4% 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 70.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

FM 619 over DRAW, built 1935, carries 1,224 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,734 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Williamson County's bridges were built

1,170 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 377 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 32.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1995, 15 years newer than the Texas average of 1980.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

How Williamson County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Texas counties nearest Williamson County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0.3% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1995 against a peer-group mean of 1993 is in line with the group.

Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Williamson County and the 5 Texas counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Travis County 1,544 0.2%
Williamson County (this page) 1,170 0.3%
Collin County 1,127 0.1%
Denton County 991 0.9%
Fort Bend County 795 2.5%
El Paso County 783 0.8%

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 Williamson 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 Williamson County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside TX (1,170 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1995 here).

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

Fair-condition bridges (377)

CR 333

Fair

Over: OPOSSUM CREEK

1.30 MI N OF FM 971, Williamson, TX

Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 150

CR 381

Fair

Over: SIDE ROAD DITCH

0.01 MI W OF CR 300, Williamson, TX

Built 1988 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 200

CR 192

Fair

Over: PECAN BRANCH

2.10 MI N OF SH 29, Williamson, TX

Built 1952 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 128

CR 124

Fair

Over: PECAN BRANCH

0.6 MI S OF FM 971, Williamson, TX

Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 450

CR 279

Fair

Over: S FORK SAN GABRIEL RIVER

1.50 MI S OF LOOP 332, Williamson, TX

Built 1987 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,054

CR 336

Fair

Over: WILLIS CREEK BRANCH

0.40 MI N OF SH 95, Williamson, TX

Built 1928 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 130

CR 302

Fair

Over: DRAW

1.0 MI E OF FM 1105, Williamson, TX

Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 361

Fair

Over: SAN GABRIEL RIVER BRANCH

1.95 MI E OF FM 971, Williamson, TX

Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 170

CR 428

Fair

Over: SAN GABRIEL RIVER

1.40 MI N OF FM 1331, Williamson, TX

Built 1984 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 220

CR 425

Fair

Over: TURKEY CREEK BRANCH

3.10 MI NE OF FM 1063, Williamson, TX

Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 420

Fair

Over: TURKEY CREEK BRANCH

0.90 MI W OF FM 1063, Williamson, TX

Built 1991 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 110

CR 412

Fair

Over: DRAW

2.30 MI E OF FM 619, Williamson, TX

Built 2005 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 200

CR 417

Fair

Over: TURKEY CREEK BRANCH

0.90 MI N OF CR 412, Williamson, TX

Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 432

Fair

Over: LONG BRANCH

0.50 MI S OF US 79, Williamson, TX

Built 1957 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 405

CR 445

Fair

Over: MUSTANG CREEK TRIBUTARY

0.85 MI E OF FM 619, Williamson, TX

Built 1996 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 150

CR 445

Fair

Over: MUSTANG CREEK TRIBUTARY

1.95 MI E OF FM 619, Williamson, TX

Built 1988 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 150

CR 445

Fair

Over: MUSTANG CRK TRIB

0.29 MI E OF FM 619, Williamson, TX

Built 1996 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 150

CR 450

Fair

Over: BRUSHY CREEK RELIEF

1.35 MI S OF FM 112, Williamson, TX

Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 262

CR 469

Fair

Over: DRY BRUSHY CREEK

1.00 MI S OF FM 1466, Williamson, TX

Built 1999 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 70

CR 455

Fair

Over: LITTLE DRY BRUSHY CRK

3.40 MI S OF FM 619, Williamson, TX

Built 1988 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 240

CR 453

Fair

Over: BATTLEGROUND CREEK TRIB

2.00 MI NE OF SH 95, Williamson, TX

Built 1991 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 405

Fair

Over: BATTLEGROUND CREEK

0.80 MI S OF FM 973, Williamson, TX

Built 1994 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 130

CR 401

Fair

Over: MUSTANG CREEK BRANCH

0.75 MI SE OF US 79, Williamson, TX

Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 240

CR 404

Fair

Over: NORTH FORK BOGGY CREEK

1.65 MI W OF FM 973, Williamson, TX

Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 242

CR 404

Fair

Over: N FORK BOGGY CREEK

1.70 MI W OF FM 973, Williamson, TX

Built 1992 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 242

CR 404

Fair

Over: BOGGY CREEK

3.30 MI SW OF FM 973, Williamson, TX

Built 1988 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 242

CR 132

Fair

Over: LITTLE MUSTANG CREEK

1.10 MI N OF US 79, Williamson, TX

Built 1995 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 500

CR 369

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.50 MI E OF CR 101, Williamson, TX

Built 2000 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 369

Fair

Over: MUSTANG CREEK

0.20 MI E OF CR 101, Williamson, TX

Built 2005 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

CR 480

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.66 MI SW OF CR 479, Williamson, TX

Built 2005 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 150

CR 482

Fair

Over: DRAW

1.24 MI EAST OF CR 481, Williamson, TX

Built 1980 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 85

CR 122

Fair

Over: MCNUTT CREEK

0.60 MI SW OF CR 110, Williamson, TX

Built 2003 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,050

WAYCROSS DR

Fair

Over: MID FORK SAN GABRIEL RV

0.05 MI NE OF CEDARHOLLOW, Williamson, TX

Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 560

BRUSHY BEND DR

Fair

Over: BRUSHY CREEK

@ BRUSHY CREEK DR, Williamson, TX

Built 1930 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 905

CR 404

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.30 MI E OF FM 973, Williamson, TX

Built 1959 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 159

APACHE PASS

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.12 MI NORTH OF CR 198, Williamson, TX

Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 630

RONALD REAGAN BLVD

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.80 MI N OF SH 29, Williamson, TX

Built 2006 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 9,678

ROANOKE DR

Fair

Over: S BRUSHY CREEK

0.10 MI S OF SHENANDOAH, Williamson, TX

Built 1975 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,970

MEADOWHEATH DR

Fair

Over: POND SPRINGS CREEK

0.40 MI E OF HYMEADOW DR, Williamson, TX

Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,650

COPPER CREEK DR

Fair

Over: POND SPRINGS CREEK

0.05 MI W OF POND WOOD RD, Williamson, TX

Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 4,140

LOOKOUT CIR

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.1 MI S OF BRUSHY CRK TR, Williamson, TX

Built 2000 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 100

LACKEY CREEK ROAD

Fair

Over: LACKEY CREEK

0.18 MI SE BLESSING RANCH, Williamson, TX

Built 2003 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10

N LAKE CREEK PKWY

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.1 MI N OF FM 620 (SH45), Williamson, TX

Built 2000 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,000

PECAN PARK BLVD

Fair

Over: PECAN CREEK

0.10 MI W OF US 183, Williamson, TX

Built 1987 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 180

LOS INDIOS TRAIL

Fair

Over: RATTAN CREEK

0.4 MI NE OF SAN FELIPE, Williamson, TX

Built 1985 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 400

S LAKELINE BLVD

Fair

Over: S BRUSHY CREEK

1.3 MI E OF CYPRESS CREEK, Williamson, TX

Built 1990 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 10,000

CR404 (RICES XING)

Fair

Over: MUSTANG CREEK

0.75 MI SW OF SH 95, Williamson, TX

Built 1953 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 480

CR403 (WELCH ST)

Fair

Over: BRANCH OF MUSTANG CREEK

0.70 MI W OF US 79, Williamson, TX

Built 1989 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 400

NORTHWEST BLVD

Fair

Over: DRAW

0.15 MI S OF LAKEWAY DR, Williamson, TX

Built 1998 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 1,000

SOUTHWESTERN BLVD

Fair

Over: SMITH BRANCH

0.40 MI S OF SH 29, Williamson, TX

Built 1986 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 800
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainBridges

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