Twin Bridges Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Twin Bridges Historic District, in Washington County, Arkansas, near Morrow, is an area surrounding two closed-spandrel, concrete-deck bridges completed in 1922 by the Luten Bridge Company. These bridges are located on County Route 3412 and former County Route 11.”
Wikipedia article Twin Bridges Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 160 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Washington Co. Rd. 3412 across unnamed cr. and Old Washington Co. Rd. 11 across Baron Fork, Morrow, 72717
When was it listed? March 1994
Category. district
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Morrow township
National Register reference number. 94000162 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Twin Bridges Historic District between 1994 and 2017, burning about 609 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
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
5 September 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30542
15 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 May 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
16 May 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Twin Bridges Historic District: 5 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrow, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrow	$50,000	no account filed
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrow	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour rolled over a mobile home and did damage to poultry buildings. This damage was originally thought to be associated with a tornado but a storm survey team determined it was due to the rear flank downdraft of the supercell storm that produced a tornado northeast of Strickler a few minutes later.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Morrow	-	Heavy rain caused secondary roads near Morrow to be flooded. A man had to be rescued when his truck was swept off a low water crossing.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Morrow	-	Thunderstorm wnds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
August 2012	Hail	Morrow	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Morrow	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Morrow	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Morrow	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Morrow	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Bethlehem Cemetery	0.6 miles	2000
Morrow Farmstead	1.4 miles	2021
R.L. Leach Grocery Store	2.1 miles	2018
Evansville-Dutch Mills Road Bridge	2.7 miles	2008
Pyeatte Mill Site	3.3 miles	1982
Earle House	3.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000162 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 160 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.