Beaver Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Beaver Bridge in Beaver, Arkansas, is a historic one-lane suspension bridge carrying Arkansas Highway 187 over the White River at Table Rock Lake. Built in 1949 by the Pioneer Construction Company, the structure is the only suspension bridge open to traffic in Arkansas.”
Wikipedia article Beaver Bridge (Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 34 National Register listings published here for Carroll 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. AR 187, over the White River, Beaver, 72631
When was it listed? April 1990
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Western township
National Register reference number. 90000730 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 June 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 2007	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	DODGE HOLLOW ATV
8 April 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	TWIN VISTAS
24 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 April 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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 Beaver Bridge: 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Radium Cave	Uranium	Prospect
Unk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
March 2015	Flash Flood	Beaver	1 killed	Leatherwood Creek flooded portions of Highway 187 near Elk Ranch. A vehicle was swept off the road by these flood waters. The vehicle was quickly found by first responders but the victim's body wasn't found until April 6th.
August 2013	Flood	Beaver	$100,000	State Line Drive bridge in Holiday Island was under water and nearly washed out.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Beaver	$100,000	Butler Creek flooded portions of Highway 187 between Beaver and Highway 62. A person was swept away from a vehicle while trying to cross a low water bridge near Beaver resulting in a swift water rescue. The flooding washed away portions of roads.
April 2011	Flash Flood	Beaver	$100,000	Some homes in the Holiday Island area were damaged from rising flood water.
February 2023	Hail	Beaver	$15,000	Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
February 2023	Hail	Beaver	$15,000	Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged a boat dock on Lake Leatherwood.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	$5,000	Large tree limbs and power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind across northwestern Carroll County.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour uprooted trees and damaged a trailer at Holiday Island.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines. The trees and power lines blocked roads.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	$100	Several large tree limbs were blown down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	$100	Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in extreme northwest Arkansas during the afternoon of July 9th and produced damaging winds. Large tree limbs were blown down 1 mile north of Rogers and in Beaver.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees, and snapped numerous large tree limbs.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree in Holiday Island.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
December 2015	Flood	Beaver	-	Portions of Highway 187 near the Beaver Bridge were closed due to flooding.
December 2015	Flood	Beaver	-	Portions of Highway 187 near the Beaver Bridge remained closed due to continued flooding.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	A storm spotter reported several large trees uprooted or snapped by strong thunderstorm wind.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs at a campground.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew down numerous trees in the Holiday Island area.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree.
July 2002	Hail	Beaver	-	Dime size hail was reported at Holiday Island.
May 2024	Hail	Beaver	-	no account filed
February 2023	Hail	Beaver	-	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Beaver	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Beaver	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Beaver	-	no account filed
October 2011	Hail	Beaver	-	no account filed
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Beaver	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Beaver	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Beaver	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Leatherwood Dam	2.1 miles	1992
Mulladay Hollow Bridge	2.6 miles	1990
Lake Leatherwood Park Historic District	2.7 miles	1998
Lake Leatherwood Recreational Facilities	2.7 miles	1992
Old U.S. 62, Busch Segment	3.2 miles	2008
U.S. 62 White River Bridge	3.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000730 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll County	All 34 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.