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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 2010 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Middle Fork of the Little Red River Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Co. Rd. 125 over the Middle Fork of the Little Red River, Shirley, 72153
- When was it listed? January 2010
- Category. structure
- Township. Union township
- National Register reference number. 09001260 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
55 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Middle Fork of the Little Red River Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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 | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Storms near this property
24 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shirley, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Shirley | $450,000 | Flooding occurred across the county. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | $150,000 | Thousands of trees were snapped off, uprooted and/or blown down within a seven mile radius of Shirley. Several trees fell on houses. Shingles were taken off of roofs and metal off of barns. Outbuildings were damaged and a vehicle was trapped by fallen power lines. |
| March 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Shirley | $50,000 | no account filed |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | $5,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Shirley | - | Half-dollar sized hail fell in the community of Shirley. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Shirley | - | Silver Rock Road on the south side of Shirley, was flooded. Weaver Creek was also out of its banks in eastern Van Buren County. Other commonly flooded low-lying areas were flooded in eastern Van Buren County. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | - | A tree was reported down off Arkansas Highway 110, near Bud Brown Hill. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | - | A few small trees downed. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Shirley | - | A weak tornado was spawned in northeastern Van Buren County roughly 6 miles south-southwest of Shirley. The tornado snapped a few trees before dissipating 2.8 miles south of Shirley. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree. |
| April 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
| October 1995 | Hail | Shirley | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09001260 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Van Buren County | All 15 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.
- 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.