Mulberry River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Mulberry River Bridge is a historic bridge, carrying Arkansas Highway 23 over the Mulberry River in northern Franklin County, Arkansas. It is a Parker pony truss bridge, with three spans and a total structure length of 446 feet (136 m).”
Wikipedia article Mulberry River Bridge (Turner's Bend, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. AR 23, Turner's Bend, 72949
When was it listed? January 2007
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Boston township
National Register reference number. 06001275 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Mulberry River Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 606 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 50 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	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BIG EDDY
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CRIPPLE BRANCH
31 July 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	KIDD
13 July 2012	Natural	1.7 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BEE ROCK
12 June 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ROCK CREEK RD.
29 May 2012	Natural	3.6 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	JACKSON RIDGE
29 May 2012	Natural	29 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	ELLIS ROAD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mulberry River Bridge: 2 past producers. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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

1 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
	Gray Spring Recreation Area-Forest Service Road 1003 Historic District	4.1 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001275 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 22 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.