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Photograph of South Fork Bridge
Photograph by Louise T. Taft, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Fork Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The South Fork Bridge is a historic bridge spanning the South Fork Saline River in Fountain Lake, Arkansas. It formerly carried Arkansas Highway 128, whose modern bridge now stands just to the south, a short way east of its junction with Arkansas Highway 5.”

Wikipedia article South Fork Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 95 National Register listings published here for Garland 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. Off AR 128, over South Fork, Fountain Lake, 71901
  • When was it listed? April 1990
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Whittington township
  • National Register reference number. 90000521 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

141 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of South Fork Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,094 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural9
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined66 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Garland County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Fork Bridge: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Tripoli, Flagstone. 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
Hot Springs PitSilica, TripoliProducer
No NameFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Garland County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Lake, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2004: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 WindFountain Lake$5,000Some trees were knocked down.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindFountain Lake-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs and power lines.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFountain Lake-Several large trees were knocked down by a severe thunderstorm.
October 1995Thunderstorm WindFountain Lake-Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees.
July 2004HailFountain Lake-no account filed
March 2002HailFountain Lake-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFountain Lake-no account filed
April 2000HailFountain Lake-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFountain Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garland 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
Peter Dierks Joers House7.1 miles2009
Whittington Park Historic District7.2 miles2012
Fordyce-Ricks House Historic District7.8 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000521 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garland CountyAll 95 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.