How many railroad crossings are in Houston, Texas?
The FRA inventory of lists 424 public railroad crossings in Houston, Texas.
- Public crossings
- 424
- Public crossings with identified warning devices
- 417
- Public crossings reported with gates
- 72%
- Most trains a day reported
- 400
- Reported incidents at public crossings since 2016
- 251
- Gate share compared with the state
- 8 percentage points higher
Where are these public crossings?
Browse the listCrossings on page 2 in Houston
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Gates are reported at 72% of these crossings.
- Gates30672%
- Flashing lights without reported gates174%
- Signs without reported gates or lights9422%
- Other or not reported72%
Each crossing appears once, grouped by its reported warning devices. Missing fields don't mean the warning devices are absent.
Train quiet zones in Houston, Texas
64 public crossings in Houston, Texas have a quiet-zone designation.
- The crossing on San Felipe Road is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on Westheimer Road is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on Richmond Avenue is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on Bissonnet Street is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on Bellaire Boulevard is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on Beechnut Street is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on West Bellfort Avenue is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on Willowbend Boulevard is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on US 59 Eastbound Frontage Road is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on US 59 Westbound Frontage Road is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on Runnels Street is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
- The crossing on Commerce Street is in a 24-hour quiet zone, with Union Pacific Railroad Company as the reporting railroad.
52 more are on other pages of the list below.
Incident counts cover January 2016 through 31 July 2026. They describe reported events, not a rating of crossings.
Traffic counts were collected at different times. Road count years appear with each record; train count years are not reported separately.
How many trains pass each crossing?
Public crossings are ordered by reported trains a day, from most to lowest.
- San Felipe RoadHouston23,561 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Westheimer RoadHouston24,138 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Richmond AvenueHouston22,528 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Bissonnet StreetHouston17,941 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Bellaire BoulevardHouston24,506 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Beechnut StreetHouston11,594 vehicles a day2024 road count
- South Braeswood BoulevardHouston8,209 vehicles a day2022 road count
- West Bellfort AvenueHouston8,788 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Willowbend BoulevardHouston4,433 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Kress StreetHouston1,670 vehicles a day2022 road count
- US 59 Eastbound Frontage RoadHouston3,650 vehicles a day2024 road count
- US 59 Westbound Frontage RoadHouston5,520 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Hughes StreetHouston1,035 vehicles a day2021 road count
- Nance StreetHouston1,482 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Runnels StreetHouston3,346 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Commerce StreetHouston6,714 vehicles a day2024 road count
- Van Hut LaneHouston7,184 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Portwall StreetHouston1,479 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Lyons AvenueHouston3,199 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Liberty RoadHouston1,493 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Rankin RoadHouston14,778 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Park Road 138Houston10 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Dorsett StHouston276 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Stedman StHouston1,870 vehicles a day2010 road count
- McCarty StHouston16,800 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Airtex DriveHouston6,847 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Maxine StreetHouston1,139 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Fidelity StHouston4,440 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Clinton Drive WestboundHouston3,955 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Navigation Boulevard EastboundHouston10,534 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Canal StreetHouston7,960 vehicles a day2019 road count
- ShermanHouston268 vehicles a day2001 road count
- Harrisburg BoulevardHouston7,613 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Clinton Drive EastboundHouston3,955 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Navigation Boulevard WestboundHouston33 vehicles a day2016 road count
- Bennington StreetHouston1,749 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Cullen BoulevardHouston7,451 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Leeland StreetHouston3,405 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Milby StreetHouston1,767 vehicles a day2022 road count
- McKinney StreetHouston2,044 vehicles a day2019 road count
- York StreetHouston3,000 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Sampson StreetHouston2,909 vehicles a day2022 road count
- Oates RoadHouston1,220 vehicles a day2019 road count
- West StreetHouston330 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Lyons StreetHouston6,877 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Quitman StreetHouston5,884 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Champion Paper DriveHouston3,750 vehicles a day1992 road count
- Sheldon RoadHouston7,670 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Pineland RoadHouston1,340 vehicles a day2019 road count
- Ce King ParkwayHouston14,533 vehicles a day2024 road count
Trains blocking a crossing in Houston? How to report it.Blocked crossing rules in Texas
Source: Federal Railroad Administration crossing inventory and reported highway-rail incidents. Sources and dates