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One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.
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Illinois River Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Cty Rd. 196 (Kincheloe Rd.) approx. 0.25 S of old AR 68, Pedro, 72761
- When was it listed? January 2005
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
- Township. Township 5
- National Register reference number. 04001503 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
61 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Illinois River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 840 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 36 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 | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2012 | Smoking | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 2012 | Natural | 25 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.3 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | WILDCAT 2 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Illinois River Bridge: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McIntyre House | 2.2 miles | 1988 | |
 | Gailey Hollow Farmstead | 2.4 miles | 1988 |
 | Illinois River Bridge | 2.4 miles | 1988 |
 | Norwood School | 5.8 miles | 1988 |
 | Wasson House | 6.0 miles | 1988 |
 | Highfill School (No. 71) | 6.0 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 04001503 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Benton County | All 162 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.