St. Francis River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for St. Francis County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 70, over the St. Francis River, Madison, 72394
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Griggs township
National Register reference number. 90000516 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

43 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of St. Francis River Bridge between 1998 and 2017, burning about 270 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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 burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
3 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 June 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Francis County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of St. Francis River Bridge: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Colvins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Forrest City Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francis County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madison, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	$5,000	Around 10 trees were blown down.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Madison	$1,000	Numerous roads were flooded.
April 2007	Hail	Madison	$1,000	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Madison	$50	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Multiple down trees and damaged signs east of Forrest City.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison	-	Straight line winds knocked a few trees down just north of Madison.

Every storm recorded in St. Francis 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
Scott Bond Family Plot	2.1 miles	2002
Forrest City Colored Cemetery	4.0 miles	2021
Mann House	4.1 miles	1982
Stuart Springs	4.1 miles	1977
Campbell House	4.5 miles	2006
First United Methodist Church	4.6 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000516 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Francis County	All 16 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.