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Photograph of U.S. 64 Horsehead Creek Bridge
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. 64 Horsehead Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Route 64 is a U.S. route running from Teec Nos Pos, Arizona east to Nags Head, North Carolina. In the U.S. state of Arkansas, the route runs 246.35 miles (396.46 km) from the Oklahoma border in Fort Smith east to the Tennessee border in Memphis.”

Wikipedia article U.S. Route 64 in Arkansas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2014 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 64 over Horsehead Cr., Hartman, 72840
  • When was it listed? September 2014
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Grant township
  • National Register reference number. 14000792 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

63 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of U.S. 64 Horsehead Creek Bridge between 1998 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Smoking2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Debris and open burning44 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 U.S. 64 Horsehead Creek Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
UnkStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartman, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996LightningHartman$120,000no account filed
April 2014Thunderstorm WindHartman$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindHartman$1,000Large tree limbs were blown down on roads in the area.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHartman$500Thunderstorm winds uprooted a tree.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHartman-Several tree limbs were blown down near the town of Hartman.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHartman-Multiple power poles were snapped near Hartman.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindHartman-Trees were down and blocking Highway 64, west of Clarksville.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHartman-Trees were blown down by the wind.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindHartman-Trees and power lines were reported down and a shed was destroyed.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindHartman-Numerous trees were reported down. Trees fell on two houses. Much of a metal roof was blown off of one house.
June 2004Flash FloodHartman-Heavy rainfall briefly flooded a portion of U.S. Highway 64 at Hartman.
April 2024HailHartman-no account filed
April 2011HailHartman-no account filed
March 2006HailHartman-no account filed
April 2005HailHartman-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindHartman-no account filed
November 2003HailHartman-no account filed
October 2001HailHartman-no account filed
October 2000Thunderstorm WindHartman-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindHartman-no account filed
March 1999Tornado (F2)Hartman-no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindHartman-no account filed
April 1995HailHartman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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

5 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
Taylor Hill Hotel3.7 miles2008
Tankersley-Stewart House3.9 miles1994
College Street Bridge4.5 miles2026
Clarksville Confederate Monument7.6 miles1999
Clarksville High School Building No. 17.9 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000792 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson CountyAll 35 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.