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

Hackett Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Hackett Creek Bridge is a historic bridge near Hackett, Arkansas, which carries Arkansas Highway 45 across Hackett Creek. The bridge is a three-span concrete structure set on abutments and piers of stone and concrete.”

Wikipedia article Hackett 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. AR 45 over Hackett Cr., Hackett, 72937
  • When was it listed? May 1995
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • Township. Township 3
  • National Register reference number. 95000568 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

78 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Hackett Creek Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,152 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2005Smoking6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2004Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2011Smoking15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2001Smoking1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Sebastian 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 Hackett Creek Bridge: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Ibison PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
Building Stone QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hamilton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rock Island StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this property

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hackett, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 16 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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 2009HailHackett$100,000no account filed
March 2006HailHackett$60,000Hail up to baseball size covered the ground.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHackett$1,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
February 1997Thunderstorm WindHackett$100no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHackett-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHackett-Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down a tree on Highway 45.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHackett-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees between Bonanza and Hackett.
December 2015FloodHackett-Henderson Street in Hackett was closed due to high water from Big Branch Creek.
November 2015Flash FloodHackett-Portions of Highway 10 were flooded between Hackett and Highway 71.
May 2015Flash FloodHackett-The creek was flooded just downstream of the James Fork Bridge on Highway 45 at Slaytonville Road near Hackett.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindHackett-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHackett-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindHackett-At 804 PM, there was a HAM radio operator reported 60 mph winds 4 miles east of Hackett. At 805 PM, another HAM radio operator reported 65 mph winds in Excelsior.
May 1999HailHackett-Location: the greater Hackett/Bonanza area
January 1999HailHackett-The Sebastian County Sheriffs Office reported quarter-sized hail in Hackett, while the general public reported golfball-sized hail.
May 1998HailHackett-Nickel-sized hail covered the ground
April 2026HailHackett-no account filed
October 2022HailHackett-no account filed
August 2006HailHackett-no account filed
March 2004HailHackett-no account filed
June 2004HailHackett-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed
May 2003HailHackett-no account filed
June 2001HailHackett-no account filed
May 2000HailHackett-no account filed
May 2000HailHackett-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed
April 1998HailHackett-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHackett-no account filed
March 1997HailHackett-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHackett-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

1 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 US 71-Jenny Lind Segment6.1 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000568 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.