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Photograph of Coop Creek Bridge
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Coop Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Coop Creek Bridge is a historic bridge in Sebastian County, Arkansas, just outside the city of Mansfield. It carries Broadway, designated County Route 62, across Coop Creek just north of Mansfield Lake.”

Wikipedia article Coop Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Sebastian County · listed in 1995 · 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. Co. Rd. 236 over Coop Cr., Mansfield, 72944
  • When was it listed? May 1995
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Township 3
  • National Register reference number. 95000566 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

108 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Coop Creek Bridge between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,207 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2006Debris and open burning210 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot 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 Coop Creek Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Sebastian County PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this property

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mansfield, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Flash FloodMansfield$50,000Flash flooding damaged a bridge.
May 2025HailMansfield$25,000Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2020HailMansfield$25,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
December 2017Thunderstorm WindMansfield$15,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a home and destroyed a metal barn.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMansfield$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMansfield$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew tree limbs and power lines down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMansfield$500Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindMansfield$100Several tree limbs were blown down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMansfield$100A large tree was blown down in Mansfield
September 1996Thunderstorm WindMansfield$100no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMansfield-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
June 2022FloodMansfield-Portions of several roads were flooded in and around Mansfield.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMansfield-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs on Highway 378.
December 2015FloodMansfield-Numerous roads were reported closed due to flooding.
June 2013Flash FloodMansfield-Highway 71 north of Mansfield was closed briefly due to high water.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMansfield-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees.
June 1998Funnel CloudMansfield-Report from Sebastian S.O.
April 2015HailMansfield-no account filed
February 2013HailMansfield-no account filed
April 2011HailMansfield-no account filed
April 2011HailMansfield-no account filed
May 2008HailMansfield-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
December 2003HailMansfield-no account filed
December 2003HailMansfield-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
May 2003HailMansfield-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
November 2001HailMansfield-no account filed
May 2000HailMansfield-no account filed
May 2000HailMansfield-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMansfield-no account filed
January 1999HailMansfield-no account filed
May 1999HailMansfield-no account filed
January 1995HailMansfield-no account filed
January 1995HailMansfield-no account filed
April 1994HailMansfield-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

2 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
Old Huntington Jail2.3 miles2008
Milltown Bridge7.8 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000566 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sebastian CountyAll 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.