Bridge Street Bridge

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Craighead County · listed in 2020 · category: Structure · built in 1937.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bridge St. between Johnson and Cate Aves., Jonseboro, 72401
When was it listed? September 2020
Category. structure
Township. Jonesboro township
When was it built? 1937
National Register reference number. 100005580 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Bridge Street Bridge between 1998 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
29 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Bridge Street Bridge: 12 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Jonesboro Brick Co	Clay	Unknown
Jonesboro Brick Co	Clay	Unknown
Jonesboro Brick Co	Clay	Unknown
Griffith Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jonesboro Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jonesboro Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Craighead 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Home Ice Company	under 500 feet	2017
Mercantile Bank Building	0.4 miles	2005
Stuck, C.A., and Sons Lumber	0.4 miles	2002
Citizens Bank Building	0.5 miles	2020
Jonesboro U.S. Post Office and Courthouse	0.5 miles	2019
Craighead County Courthouse	0.5 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005580 in Record Group 79.
Craighead County	All 25 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.