Mulberry River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Mulberry River Bridge, also known as the Silver Bridge and the Wire Ford Bridge, is a historic Pratt through truss bridge northeast of Pleasant Hill, Arkansas, now a neighborhood of the city of Mulberry. The bridge normally carries Wire Road/Center Point Road across the Mulberry River.”
Wikipedia article Mulberry River Bridge (Pleasant Hill, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Crawford County · listed in 2007 · 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. Cty Rd. 67, Pleasant Hill, 72947
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
National Register reference number. 06001272 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Mulberry River Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,076 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	not named
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2003	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2000	Smoking	30 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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
	Bryant-Lasater House	1.8 miles	2007
	Mulberry Home Economics Building	2.4 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001272 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crawford County	All 35 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.