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Photograph of Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge is a historic bridge in rural western Washington County, Arkansas. It is a single-span concrete filled-spandrel arch bridge, which carries Dutch Mills Road over Whitaker Branch South south of the village of Dutch Mills The bridge was built in 1936 by the Luten Bridge Company, and was one of its last commissions in the county.”

Wikipedia article Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Evansville--Dutch Mills Road Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 464, Dutch Mills, 72744
  • When was it listed? January 2008
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Dutch Mills township
  • National Register reference number. 07001436 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,786 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning36
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30463
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism26 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30475
5 September 2000Natural8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2013Arson/incendiarism30 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30542
26 August 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30446
26 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresCherokee Nation TribeOLD PINEY

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge: 11 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dutch Mills, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1993HailDutch Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
R.L. Leach Grocery Store0.9 miles2018
Bethlehem Cemetery2.3 miles2000
Twin Bridges Historic District2.7 miles1994
Morrow Farmstead3.6 miles2021
Pyeatte Mill Site5.9 miles1982
Moore House6.3 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07001436 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 160 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.
  • 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.