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One of 383 National Register listings published here for Pulaski County · listed in 2020 · category: Structure · built in 1925.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Maumelle River Bridge
Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Old AR 300 over the Maumelle River, Natural Steps, 72135
- When was it listed? January 2020
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
- Township. Big Rock township
- When was it built? 1925
- National Register reference number. 100004894 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
68 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Maumelle River Bridge between 1997 and 2019, burning about 946 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 114 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maumelle River Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saline-Pulaski | Aluminum | Past Producer | Gibbsite, Goethite, Hematite, Kaolin, Magnetite, Pyrite, Siderite |
Storms near this property
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Natural Steps, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Natural Steps | 1 hurt, $300,000 | This tornado exited Faulkner County 2.06 miles south of Palarm and re-entered Pulaski County 1.93 miles northeast of Natural Steps. In Pulaski County, the tornado badly damaged a small church, blew a tree down into a house, and knocked down numerous trees. The tornado crossed Interstate 40 in extreme northern Pulaski County. It exited Pulaski County north-northwest of Morgan and re-entered Faulkner County east-southeast of Mayflower. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Natural Steps | $10,000 | A number of streets were flooded in Little Rock, North Little Rock, and Maumelle. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Natural Steps | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Natural Steps | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Natural Steps | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gene Rush House | 2.3 miles | 2019 | |
| La Belle Creole | 2.9 miles | 2024 | |
 | Pyeatte-Mason Cemetery | 3.7 miles | 1996 |
 | Maumelle Ordnance Works Bunker #4 | 4.1 miles | 2006 |
| Palarm Bayou Pioneer Cemetery | 4.2 miles | 2005 | |
 | Walnut Grove Methodist Church | 6.1 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004894 in Record Group 79. |
| Pulaski County | All 383 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.