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Photograph of Little Missouri River Bridge
Photograph by Holder, Jeff, creator, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Little Missouri River Bridge

Built in 1908. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Little Missouri River Bridge, also known as the Nachitoch Bluff Bridge, is a historic bridge between rural southern Clark County, Arkansas and Nevada County, Arkansas. Now closed to traffic, it once carried County Road 179 over the Little Missouri River.”

Wikipedia article Little Missouri River Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1990 · category: Structure · built in 1908.

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. Co. Rd. 179, over the Little Missouri River, Prescott, 71857
  • When was it listed? April 1990
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • When was it built? 1908
  • National Register reference number. 90000536 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

102 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Little Missouri River Bridge between 1997 and 2018, burning about 937 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 18 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
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural6
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2005Smoking55 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarism20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionNEV15696987
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Little Missouri River Bridge: 16 past producers, 5 unknowns. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark 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
US 67 Bridge over Little Missouri River1.6 miles2007
McNeely Creek Bridge5.8 miles2004
Okolona Colored High School Gymnasium6.6 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90000536 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark CountyAll 43 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.