Spring Lake Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Spring Lake Bridge is a historic bridge in the eastern part of Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, carrying County Road 35 across an inlet of Spring Lake known as Bob Barnes Branch, in the Spring Lake Recreation Area with the Ozark-St.”
Wikipedia article Spring Lake Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Yell County · listed in 1990 · 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. AR 307, over Bob Barnes Branch, Belleville, 72824
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Mountain township
National Register reference number. 90000510 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 425 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	6
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SULPHER SPRINGS #1
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	SULPHER SPRINGS #2
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	CEDAR CREEK
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	LABOR LAKE
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Yell County

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belleville, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$100,000	A mobile home was blown over and destroyed. Trees and power lines were blown down. Some houses were damaged.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$70,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. One of the trees fell on a car, trapping the occupant.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$50,000	The local emergency manager reported telephone and power lines down from near Belleville to near Danville. Numerous trees were blown down, including one that blocked Arkansas Highway 307 North. Some barns and chicken houses had tin blown off their roofs. Shingles were removed from a roof near Danville. Damage was reported to an outbuilding.
January 2013	Flash Flood	Belleville	$40,000	Arkansas 27 had many places under water. In the eastern part of Danville, five people had to be evacuated from a house and a motorist stranded in high water had to be rescued.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$20,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$15,000	Trees were blown down in the Belleville area.
June 2012	Dust Devil	Belleville	$10,000	A dust devil removed tin from a chicken house and blew insulation well up into the air.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	$10,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
March 1997	Tornado (F1)	Belleville	$2,700	no account filed
August 2014	Flash Flood	Belleville	$1,000	Water covered parts of Belleville Ridge Rd.
January 2025	Flash Flood	Belleville	-	Flooding covered Arkansas Highway 307 making it impassable along with several other roads within Yell County.
February 2023	Flash Flood	Belleville	-	The Danville chief of police reported a swift water rescue that took place at the intersection of Ideal Lane and AR State Highway 307. They successfully rescued the occupants of a vehicle in high water.
February 2023	Flash Flood	Belleville	-	Arkansas State Hwy. 307 near Bellville was completely under water.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	A tree was down in Belleville.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Trees were down in Belleville.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Trees and power lines downed, with one tree on a house.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some power lines at Belleville.
May 2011	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Belleville	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Belleville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yell 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

3 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
Spring Lake Recreation Area Historic District	0.6 miles	1995
Dr. John Grace House and Hospital	3.4 miles	2015
Sulphur Springs Cemetery	6.6 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000510 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yell County	All 33 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.
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.