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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2025 · category: Structure.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Smith Creek Bridge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Oak Bend Road over Smith Creek, Webb City, 72930
- When was it listed? May 2025
- Category. structure
- Also known as. New Deal Recovery Efforts in Arkansas MPS
- Township. Barham township
- National Register reference number. 100011812 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
70 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Smith Creek Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 480 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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 | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2005 | Natural | 15 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Smith Creek Bridge: 21 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk Quarries 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Arnold Stone Co | Stone | Past Producer | Thin-bedded sandstone | |
| Unk | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
26 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webb City, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Webb City | $125,000 | A tornado tore portions of the roofs off of two houses, damaged several other homes, destroyed several outbuildings, and snapped or uprooted a number of trees. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Webb City | $75,000 | A road was washed out by flood water. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Webb City | $20,000 | Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Webb City | $20,000 | Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Webb City | $15,000 | Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| November 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | $15,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of five homes and uprooted trees. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power lines. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | $5,000 | Power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree and power lines. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree in Ozark Country Estates. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 60 mph south of town by an amateur radio storm spotter. Large tree limbs were snapped. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted small trees and snapped large tree limbs. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees on Highway 309 south of Ozark. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees in Webb City. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees onto Highway 23. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Webb City | - | Portions of Highway 309 near Highway 23 south of Ozark was closed due to flooding. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs and several small trees. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Webb City | - | Hillbilly Lane off of Highway 64 was closed due to rapidly rising water. West School and West Gibson Streets were also flooded. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large limbs, which fell onto the road blocking the intersection of Highways 23 and 96. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webb City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Webb City | - | Portions of Highway 64 in Ozark were flooded and impassable. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Webb City | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Webb City | - | no account filed |
| February 2013 | Hail | Webb City | - | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Hail | Webb City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Center Cross School | 5.4 miles | 1992 |
 | Franklin County Jail | 5.8 miles | 1982 |
 | Missouri-Pacific Depot-Ozark | 5.9 miles | 1992 |
 | Ozark Courthouse Square Historic District | 5.9 miles | 2002 |
 | First Methodist Episcopal Church, South | 5.9 miles | 1992 |
 | Franklin County Courthouse | 5.9 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011812 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 22 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.