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Photograph of St. Louis-San Francisco Overpass
Photograph by Louise T. Taft, Photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Louis-San Francisco Overpass

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Louis-San Francisco Overpass is a pony and deck truss bridge built in 1937 in Imboden, Arkansas. Route 62 and Arkansas Highway 115 over the Spring River and the former St.”

Wikipedia article St. Louis-San Francisco Overpass, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Lawrence County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure · built in 1937.

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.
  • Listed as. St. Louis--San Francisco Overpass - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. US 62, over the Spring River, Imboden, 72434
  • When was it listed? April 1990
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Dent township
  • When was it built? 1937
  • National Register reference number. 90000513 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

71 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of St. Louis-San Francisco Overpass between 1997 and 2018, burning about 629 acres in total. 1 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of St. Louis-San Francisco Overpass: 9 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Dolomite, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Adams PropertyIronProspect
Ben M HoganLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Campbell Zinc Co's Shaft 1Lead, Zinc, DolomitePast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this property

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imboden, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindImboden$500,000Thunderstorm winds, estimated as high as 90 mph, knocked down numerous trees and power lines. Several trees fell onto cars.
July 2003HailImboden$50,000A car dealership in Black Rock had many of its vehicles damaged by the hail.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindImboden$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindImboden$30,000no account filed
October 2004Thunderstorm WindImboden$20,000Several homes and buildings were damaged. Several trees were blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindImboden$15,000Several trees down around Imboden.
February 2018Flash FloodImboden$10,000Flooding reported throughout the entire Imboden area.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindImboden$5,000Thunderstorm winds damaged an outbuilding.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindImboden$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindImboden$1,000Bleachers completely blown over at Sloan-Hendrix baseball field in Imboden.
May 2001HailImboden$500no account filed
May 1997HailImboden$110no account filed
January 1999HailImboden$100no account filed
July 1996HailImboden$10no account filed
March 2018HailImboden-Hail ranged from dime to quarter size.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindImboden-Estimated 50 to 60 mph gust.
June 2013Flash FloodImboden-Heavy rain produced flash flooding around Walnut Ridge. Up to a foot of water covered many secondary roads in the vicinity of Walnut Ridge.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindImboden-Straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines from Imboden to Black Rock. A tree was knocked on to a home in Black Rock.
March 2008Flash FloodImboden-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Imboden. Highway 62 and Highway 63 were closed due to flooding.
September 1993HailImboden-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
April 2023HailImboden-no account filed
April 2022HailImboden-no account filed
March 2012HailImboden-no account filed
August 2011HailImboden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Imboden Methodist Episcopal Church, Southunder 500 feet2004
Dr. John Octavius Hatcher Houseunder 500 feet1992
Bethel Cemetery7.7 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000513 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lawrence CountyAll 31 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.