Cove Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Cove Creek Bridge was a historic bridge in rural eastern Conway County, Arkansas. It carried Arkansas Highway 124 across Cove Creek, just west of the hamlet of Martinsville, and west of the city of Twin Groves.”
Wikipedia article Cove Creek Bridge (Martinville, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Conway County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure.

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

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. AR 124, Martinville, 72157
When was it listed? May 2004
Category. structure
Township. Union township
National Register reference number. 04000499 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

124 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Cove Creek Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,487 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 43 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
Debris and open burning	46
Arson/incendiarism	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	75 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	DOCS LANE
27 September 2000	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Conway 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mellettown United Methodist Church	2.7 miles	2005
	Union Chapel School and Shop Building	7.5 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000499 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Conway County	All 50 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.