Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“The Rennic Road Bridge is a single-span Warren truss bridge in Washington County, Arkansas. It historically carried Rennic Road across an unnamed creek in a rural part of the county about 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the hamlet of Cincinnati, Arkansas, but has recently been bypassed, and stands next to the modern bridge.”
Wikipedia article Rennic Road Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number. 04001043 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
31 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 31 fires within 5 miles of County Road 6 Bridge
between 1993 and 2017, burning about 566 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism
9
Debris and open burning
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Natural
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 4 deaths and 7 injuries. 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.
This segment is the second of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado moved into Washington County snapping numerous trees as it approached the town of Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, the tornado destroyed several permanent homes, destroyed the volunteer fire station, destroyed a mobile home, damaged several other permanent homes, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, snapped numerous power poles, and destroyed barns and outbuildings. Two people were killed in the mobile home that was destroyed and a third person was killed either in or near a barn while he was tending to his cattle. At least seven injuries also occurred. The tornado was about 300 yards wide when it went through town. The maximum estimated wind speed in the tornado based on this damage was 140 mph.||The tornado continued to move rapidly northeastward and widened to about 500 yards northeast of Cincinnati. Several permanent homes were severely damaged, several mobile homes were destroyed, at least four chicken houses were destroyed, outbuildings were destroyed, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, and power poles were snapped. A woman in one of the mobile homes that was destroyed was transported to a hospital with serious injuries. She later died from those injuries on January 4th.||The tornado continued into Benton County, Arkansas.
This is the second and final segment of this tornado. In Washington County, this tornado damaged a home, damaged several barns, and snapped or uprooted numerous trees. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this tornado segment was 100 to 110 mph.
This is the third segment of a three-segment tornado. The tornado moved into Washington County, AR, south of W Cincinnati Road. It moved northeast across Highway 59 near Cincinnati, where numerous large tree limbs were snapped. Numerous large tree limbs were also snapped as it crossed Rennic Road and Ham Road before dissipating. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 75 to 85 mph.
This is the third segment of a four-segment tornado. The tornado moved into Washington County just north of Brush Road. It moved northeast, crossing Highway 59 and Highway 244, before moving into Benton County. Numerous trees were uprooted in Washington County, and many large tree limbs were snapped. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
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
4 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.
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.
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.
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