Barton Road over E Fork Chambers Creek

Ellis County, Texas · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

• Barton Road over E Fork Chambers Creek in Ellis County, Texas, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the substructure, rated 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 1991, making it 34 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 179 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2019).
• Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
• It is one of 12 of the 690 inventoried bridges in Ellis County rated poor (1.7%); 12 (1.7%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is posted for load (NBI item 41).
• It was rated fair in the 2024 inventory and is now poor (deck 7 to 5, substructure 5 to 4).
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated November 2024, on a 12-month routine inspection cycle.
• It is coded scour critical (NBI item 113 = 3): scour critical: foundations unstable for the assessed or calculated scour.
• A poor rating means at least one major component - deck, superstructure, or substructure - is rated 4 or lower on FHWA's 0-9 scale. It does not by itself mean the bridge is unsafe; bridges judged unsafe are closed or load-restricted by their owners.

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Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the Texas department of transportation.

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