Texas Website Statistics
All Bridges
- Total listed Texas bridges: 2,275
- Bridges with photos: 1,151 (50.6%)
- Bridges with Street View: 735 (32.3%)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 2,253 (99.0%)
- Total photos: 6,984
Extant Bridges
- Extant bridges: 1,484 (65.2% of all)
- Bridges with photos: 953 (64.2% of extant)
- Bridges with Street View: 681 (45.9% of extant)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 1,480 (99.7% of extant)
Lost Bridges
- Lost bridges: 746 (32.8% of all)
- Bridges with photos: 158 (21.2% of lost)
- Bridges with GPS coordinates: 738 (98.9% of lost)
Oldest Listed Bridges
- Mission Espada Aqueduct (Bexar County, built 1731, open to traffic)
- Waco Suspension Bridge (McLennan County, built 1869, open to pedestrians)
- Houston Street Fink Truss (Bexar County, built 1871, replaced by new bridge)
- Commerce Street Bridge (Older) (Dallas County, built 1871, replaced by new bridge)
- I&GN - Iron Ore Culvert (Wood County, built 1873, abandoned)
- I&GN - Buffalo Bayou Swing Bridge (Harris County, built 1873, replaced by new bridge)
- Brackenridge Park Bowstring (Bexar County, built 1880, open to pedestrians)
- Johnson Street Bridge (Bexar County, built 1880, replaced by new bridge)
- Commerce Street Bridge (Bexar County, built 1880, replaced by new bridge)
- International Bridge (Webb County, built 1880, destroyed by flood)
Oldest Listed Extant Bridges
- Mission Espada Aqueduct (Bexar County, built 1731, open to traffic)
- Waco Suspension Bridge (McLennan County, built 1869, open to pedestrians)
- I&GN - Iron Ore Culvert (Wood County, built 1873, abandoned)
- Brackenridge Park Bowstring (Bexar County, built 1880, open to pedestrians)
- Hays Street Bridge (Bexar County, built 1881, open to pedestrians)
- Cotton Belt - Drainage Trestle (Navarro County, built 1881, abandoned)
- Old Alton Bridge (Denton County, built 1884, open to pedestrians)
- Bulman Bridge (Hamilton County, built 1884, open to pedestrians)
- Big Elm Creek Bridge (Falls County, built 1884, closed to all traffic)
- Moore's Crossing Bridge (Travis County, built 1884, open to pedestrians)
By Design
- Arch: 121 (5.3%)
- Deck arch: 108 (4.7%)
- Brick arch: 5 (0.2%)
- Closed-spandrel arch: 21 (0.9%)
- Open-spandrel arch: 9 (0.4%)
- Steel arch: 13 (0.6%)
- Stone arch: 21 (0.9%)
- Pony arch: 1 (0.04%)
- Timber pony arch: 1 (0.04%)
- Through arch: 12 (0.5%)
- Concrete through arch: 1 (0.04%)
- Steel through arch: 11 (0.5%)
- Beam: 402 (17.7%)
- Stringer: 295 (13.0%)
- Concrete stringer: 23 (1.0%)
- Steel stringer: 157 (6.9%)
- Timber stringer: 73 (3.2%)
- Concrete tee beam: 98 (4.3%)
- Culvert: 164 (7.2%)
- Concrete culvert: 22 (1.0%)
- Stone culvert: 131 (5.8%)
- Ferry: 6 (0.3%)
- Floating: 2 (0.09%)
- Rigid frame: 13 (0.6%)
- Concrete rigid frame: 13 (0.6%)
- Girder: 177 (7.8%)
- Deck girder: 88 (3.9%)
- Concrete deck girder: 12 (0.5%)
- Deck plate girder: 74 (3.3%)
- Pony/through girder: 75 (3.3%)
- Concrete pony/through girder: 1 (0.04%)
- Pony/through plate girder: 71 (3.1%)
- Other: 19 (0.8%)
- Slab: 80 (3.5%)
- Suspension: 21 (0.9%)
- Cable-stayed: 6 (0.3%)
- Wire suspension: 14 (0.6%)
- Truss: 1,218 (53.5%)
- Bedstead pony truss: 2 (0.09%)
- Bedstead Pratt pony truss: 2 (0.09%)
- Deck truss: 27 (1.2%)
- Lattice deck truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Pratt deck truss: 5 (0.2%)
- Warren deck truss: 4 (0.2%)
- Warren deck truss with all verticals: 1 (0.04%)
- Modern truss: 3 (0.1%)
- Modern pony truss: 2 (0.09%)
- Modern bowstring pony truss: 2 (0.09%)
- Modern through truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Modern Warren through truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Pony truss: 732 (32.2%)
- Bowstring pony truss: 9 (0.4%)
- Double-intersection Warren pony truss: 2 (0.09%)
- Howe pony truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Kingpost pony truss: 2 (0.09%)
- Lenticular pony truss: 9 (0.4%)
- Other pony truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Parker pony truss: 4 (0.2%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss: 44 (1.9%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 22 (1.0%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss with no verticals: 1 (0.04%)
- Polygonal Warren pony truss with all verticals: 3 (0.1%)
- Pratt pony truss: 21 (0.9%)
- Half-hip Pratt pony truss: 6 (0.3%)
- Warren pony truss: 128 (5.6%)
- Warren pony truss with alternating verticals: 68 (3.0%)
- Warren pony truss with no verticals: 3 (0.1%)
- Warren pony truss with all verticals: 17 (0.7%)
- Through truss: 383 (16.8%)
- Bowstring through truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Camelback through truss: 18 (0.8%)
- Fink through truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Howe through truss: 2 (0.09%)
- K-Parker through truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Lattice through truss: 3 (0.1%)
- Quadrangular lattice through truss: 2 (0.09%)
- Lenticular through truss: 4 (0.2%)
- Other through truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Parker through truss: 61 (2.7%)
- Pennsylvania through truss: 7 (0.3%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss: 7 (0.3%)
- Polygonal Warren through truss with all verticals: 3 (0.1%)
- Pratt through truss: 147 (6.5%)
- Waddell "A" through truss: 1 (0.04%)
- Warren through truss: 57 (2.5%)
- Warren through truss with alternating verticals: 2 (0.09%)
- Warren through truss with sub-panels: 1 (0.04%)
- Warren through truss with all verticals: 26 (1.1%)
- Whipple through truss: 6 (0.3%)
- Tunnel: 5 (0.2%)
- Unknown: 47 (2.1%)