Milltown Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Milltown Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge in rural southeastern Sebastian County, Arkansas. The bridge carries County Road 77 across an unnamed brook just west of its junction with White Mountain Road.”
Wikipedia article Milltown Bridge (Milltown, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Sebastian County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Co. Rd. 77, 1.5 mi. W of Milltown, Milltown, 72936
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Township 2
National Register reference number. 90000527 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

60 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Milltown Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 532 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Milltown Bridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Peerless Coal Co	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this property

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milltown, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Milltown	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and also blew the roof off a garage.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Milltown	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Milltown	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Milltown	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees near the intersection of Highways 60 and 252.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Milltown	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Milltown	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree.
June 2023	Hail	Milltown	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Milltown	-	no account filed
March 2009	Hail	Milltown	-	no account filed
March 2009	Hail	Milltown	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Milltown	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Milltown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
State Highway 96 Bridge	4.9 miles	1995
Sebastian County Jail, Old	5.9 miles	1994
Robert Atlas Harper House	6.1 miles	2000
Greenwood Presbyterian Church	6.3 miles	2008
Greenwood Gymnasium	6.3 miles	2011
Old Huntington Jail	7.1 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000527 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sebastian County	All 64 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.