War Eagle Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The War Eagle Bridge is a historic bridge in War Eagle, Arkansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article War Eagle Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Carries CR 98 over War Eagle Creek, War Eagle, 72738
When was it listed? November 1985
Category. structure
Township. Township 1
National Register reference number. 85003497 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

70 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of War Eagle Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,180 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
19 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2012	Natural	380 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton 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
Van Winkle's Mill Site	2.4 miles	2007
Rocky Branch School	4.1 miles	1988
Shaw-Blair House	5.9 miles	2020
Stack Barn	6.2 miles	1988
Coal Gap School	6.9 miles	1992
Oklahoma Row Hotel Site	7.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003497 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 162 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.