Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
From the record
“The North Fork Bridge carries Arkansas Highway 5 over the North Fork River, or the North Fork of the White River, in Norfork, Arkansas, United States. It is a modern steel girder bridge, replacing a 1937 Warren deck truss bridge, which was the first road crossing of the North Fork River in Norfork.”
Wikipedia article North Fork Bridge (Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 25 National Register listings published here for Baxter County · category: Structure.
National Register reference number. 90000512 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
77 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 77 fires within 5 miles of North Fork Bridge
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,773 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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
33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
22
Debris and open burning
18
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Other causes
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of North Fork Bridge: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Lead, Mercury, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Norfork, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 18 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A weak tornado touched down 4 miles southwest of Norfork and traveled to the northeast for about 4.7 miles before lifting. Structural damage with this tornado was limited, but a roof was blown off an old school which is now being used as a foodbank. A carport was also flipped with shingles removed from a few roofs. Numerous trees were blown down along the path of the tornado.
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.
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.
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