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Photograph of McNeely Creek Bridge
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

McNeely Creek Bridge

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The McNeely Creek Bridge is a historic bridge spanning McNeely Creek just outside Beirne, Arkansas, a village in southwestern Clark County. The bridge, a steel Warren pony truss bridge with a span of 71 feet (22 m), carries County Route 12.”

Wikipedia article McNeely Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure · built in 1923.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Cty. Rd. 12, Beirne, 71743
  • When was it listed? May 2004
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Caddo township
  • When was it built? 1923
  • National Register reference number. 04000495 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

153 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of McNeely Creek Bridge between 1997 and 2019, burning about 2,131 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 23 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance63
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural9
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of McNeely Creek Bridge: 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkClayUnknown
Rickets Trucking Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith & Houston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beirne, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBeirne-A tree was down on U.S. Highway 67 north of the Arkansas Highway 51 West intersection.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBeirne-Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.

Every storm recorded in Clark County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Gurdon Jail3.8 miles1989
Hoo Hoo Monument3.9 miles1999
Missouri-Pacific Railroad Depot-Gurdon4.0 miles1992
Horace Estes House4.1 miles1993
June Sandidge House4.4 miles1993
Ronoake Baptist Church5.2 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000495 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark CountyAll 43 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.