Crowley's Ridge State Park-Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Crowley's Ridge State Park Bridge is a historic masonry stone arch bridge in Crowley's Ridge State Park, near Walcott, Arkansas. The bridge carries the main access road to the park across a drainage ditch.”
Wikipedia article Crowley's Ridge State Park Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1992 · 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.
Listed as. Crowley's Ridge State Park--Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main service center area access rd., Crowley's Ridge State Park, Walcott, 72450
When was it listed? May 1992
Category. structure
Also known as. Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
Township. Crowley's Ridge township
National Register reference number. 92000540 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Crowley's Ridge State Park-Bridge between 1999 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	10
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 1999	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Smoking	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2007	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
31 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Crowley's Ridge State Park-Bridge: 5 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Unk	Iron	Occurrence
Cooper Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dwyer Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Paragould Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walcott, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
February 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	$75,000	Roofs were blown off two barns near Highway 168 and County Road 310.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	$50,000	no account filed
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	$10,000	A barn was damaged and car windows were blown out.
July 1995	Tornado (F0)	Walcott	$10,000	A tornado touched down just south of Walcott. A mobile home was overturned and several large trees were snapped off.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	$5,000	Trees blocking the road at Highways 141 and 358.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees. One tree fell onto a house.
January 2000	Hail	Walcott	$750	Hail ranged in size from nickle in Walcott to golfball just west of Paragould.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	$500	A few trees were knocked down.
March 1995	Hail	Walcott	$100	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Walcott	$50	no account filed
October 2004	Hail	Walcott	$10	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Walcott	$10	no account filed
April 2022	Hail	Walcott	-	Golf ball-sized hail fell in Walcott.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Walcott	-	State Road 141 closed near Walcott due to flooding.
June 2011	Hail	Walcott	-	Quarter size hail fell on Highway 141 just south of Walcott.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Walcott	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Finch. Several roads were flooded as a result.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	-	Straight line winds blew trees down 2-3 miles north of the A+P Food Store, southwest of Walcott.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	-	A trained spotter estimated the winds between 60 and 70 mph in Lorado.
May 2025	Hail	Walcott	-	no account filed
March 2024	Hail	Walcott	-	no account filed
March 2024	Hail	Walcott	-	no account filed
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Walcott	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Walcott	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	Walcott	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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

4 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
Crowley's Ridge State Park-Bathhouse	under 500 feet	1992
Crowley's Ridge State Park-Comfort Station	0.2 miles	1992
Crowley's Ridge State Park-Dining Hall	0.3 miles	1992
Old Bethel Methodist Church	2.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000540 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene County	All 18 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.