Built in 1919. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
From the record
“The Old Benton - Sardis Road Bridge is a historic bridge off Arkansas Highway 183 in Bauxite, Arkansas. It is a concrete deck truss bridge, with a span of about 15 feet (4.6 m), and is oriented east-west along an old road bed, resting on concrete abutments with diagonal wing walls.”
Wikipedia article Old Benton-Sardis Road Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Saline County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure · built in 1919.
National Register reference number. 06001274 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
157 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Old Benton-Sardis Road Bridge
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 835 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 48 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
48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
44
Debris and open burning
40
Smoking
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Natural
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Recreation and ceremony
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 federal mineral resources record lists
55 workings within 5 miles of Old Benton-Sardis Road Bridge: 36 unknowns, 8 producers, 8 past producers, 1 occurrence.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Niobium (Columbium), Kaolin, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bauxite, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood.
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.
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.
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.
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