Total bridges
120
Public highway bridges in Wood County
County profile · official public datasets
Wood County, TX
120 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 40.8% rated Good, 57.5% Fair, 1.7% Poor.
- 120
- Public bridges
- 40.8%
- Good condition
- 1.7%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Wood County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 166th
- of 247 on Poor share
- 1.7%
- Poor-condition share
- 120
- public highway bridges
- 1972
- 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.
Wood County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wood County ranks #166 of 247 Texas counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 1.7%). Wood County, Texas contains 120 public highway bridges. Roughly 40.8% are rated “Good,” 57.5% “Fair,” and 1.7% “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
40.8%
49 of 120 rated 7-9
Fair condition
57.5%
69 of 120 rated 5-6
Poor condition
1.7%
2 of 120 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#166 of 247
Among Texas counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 120 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 40.8% (49)
Fair 57.5% (69)
Poor 1.7% (2)
Wood County's Poor-condition bridges carry 780 vehicle crossings a day
That is 0.3% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 1.7% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 390 crossings a day against 2,043 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 120 of 120 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
56.7% of Wood County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
68 of the 120 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 40.8% 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 76.9% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
CR 4730 over Indian Cr, built 1990, carries 600 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 780 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Wood County's bridges were built
120 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
20 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
23 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
19 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
12 bridges
- 1980s 4
1980–1989
4 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
16 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
16 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 23 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1972, 8 years older than the Texas average of 1980.
How Wood County compares with Texas's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Texas counties nearest Wood County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 1.7% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1972 against a peer-group mean of 1967 is 5 years newer.
Showing the 5 closest of 246 Texas counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burleson County | 122 | 50% | 46.7% | 3.3% | 1974 |
| Maverick County | 122 | 57.4% | 41.8% | 0.8% | 1975 |
| Duval County | 121 | 46.3% | 52.9% | 0.8% | 1955 |
| Madison County | 121 | 28.1% | 68.6% | 3.3% | 1969 |
| Wood County (this page) | 120 | 40.8% | 57.5% | 1.7% | 1972 |
| Hamilton County | 119 | 37.8% | 59.7% | 2.5% | 1963 |
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 Wood 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 Wood County, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside TX (120 bridges here).
- Matanuska-Susitna County, AK · 120 bridges
- Indian River County, FL · 120 bridges
- Perry County, MO · 120 bridges
- Schuyler County, MO · 120 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside TX (1972 here).
- Santa Clara County, CA · avg 1972 · 964 bridges
- Madison County, AL · avg 1972 · 710 bridges
- Kern County, CA · avg 1972 · 668 bridges
- York County, PA · avg 1972 · 569 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (69)
FM 2088
FairOver: STOUT CREEK
0.95 MI E OF FM 312, Wood, TX
Built 1956 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 735
FM 17
FairOver: MUSTANG CREEK
1.9 MI S OF FM 515, Wood, TX
Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,171
FM 17
FairOver: WILLIAMS CREEK (LK FORK)
3.45 MI S OF FM 515, Wood, TX
Built 1980 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 2,171
FM 1254
FairOver: Lake Fork Cr
2.75mi SW of FM 778, Wood, TX
Built 2020 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 330
FM 2966
FairOver: RUNNING CRK (LAKE FORK)
3.75 MI E OF SH 154, Wood, TX
Built 1979 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 691
SH 154
FairOver: BIG SANDY CREEK RELIEF
1.70 MI W OF FM 312, Wood, TX
Built 1948 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 1,339
FM 1795
FairOver: BIG SANDY CREEK
1.95 MI NE OF FM 2659, Wood, TX
Built 1979 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 516
US 80 WB
FairOver: KEYS CREEK
3.90 MI W OF US 69, Wood, TX
Built 1962 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 2,673
US 80 WB
FairOver: LAKE FORK CREEK
8.1 MI E OF US 69, Wood, TX
Built 1960 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,888
US 80 WB
FairOver: LAKE FORK CREEK REL #1
8.4 MI E OF US 69, Wood, TX
Built 1960 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,888
US 80 WB
FairOver: LAKE FORK CREEK REL #2
8.70 MI E OF US 69, Wood, TX
Built 1960 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,888
US 80 EB
FairOver: LAKE FORK CREEK
8.0 MI E OF US 69, Wood, TX
Built 1996 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,943
US 80 EB
FairOver: LITTLE SANDY CREEK
3.00 MI W OF FM 14, Wood, TX
Built 1960 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 1,728
US 69 SB
FairOver: SABINE RIVER RELIEF #1
2.50 MI S OF US 80, Wood, TX
Built 1955 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 12,116
US 69 SB
FairOver: SABINE RIVER REL NO 2
3.2 MI S OF US 80, Wood, TX
Built 1955 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 12,116
US 69 SB
FairOver: SABINE RIVER
3.5 MI S OF US 80, Wood, TX
Built 1955 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 11,592
FM 2088
FairOver: BIG SANDY CREEK
1.45 MI E OF FM 14, Wood, TX
Built 1991 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 802
CR 2800
FairOver: SMITH CREEK
1.4 MI WEST OF US 69, Wood, TX
Built 2004 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 30
CR 3600
FairOver: ROGERS CREEK
1.95 MI NE OF FM 14, Wood, TX
Built 2005 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 243
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