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Photograph of AR 289 Bridge Over English Creek
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

AR 289 Bridge Over English Creek

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The AR 289 Bridge Over English Creek is a historic bridge in rural eastern Fulton County, Arkansas. The bridge, a single-span steel Pratt through-truss structure, carries Arkansas Highway 289 over English Creek south of Mammoth Spring.”

Wikipedia article AR 289 Bridge Over English Creek, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 2009 · category: Structure.

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

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. AR 289 over English Cr., Mammoth Spring, 72554
  • When was it listed? January 2009
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Mammoth Spring township
  • National Register reference number. 08001338 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

78 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of AR 289 Bridge Over English Creek between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,477 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 July 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of AR 289 Bridge Over English Creek: 1 unknown. 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, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this property

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mammoth Spring, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMammoth Spring$50,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
April 1993HailMammoth Spring$50,000Hail up to 1.00 inch in diameter, broke windows and damaged roofs and cars in Mammoth Spring.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMammoth Spring-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindMammoth Spring-Several large limbs were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Spring River Bridge3.3 miles2014
T. H. Morris House3.6 miles1990
Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church3.9 miles1986
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad Depot3.9 miles1992
Mammoth Spring Dam and Lake4.0 miles2009
Saddle Store7.2 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08001338 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton CountyAll 11 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.