Van Buren County Road 2E Bridge

Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Van Buren County Road 2E Bridge is a historic bridge in rural southwestern Van Buren County, Arkansas. It is a three-span open concrete masonry structure, with each span measuring 12 feet (3.7 m) in length, carrying County Road 2E across an unnamed tributary of Driver's Creek.”
Wikipedia article Van Buren County Road 2E Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Van Buren County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1940.

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. 2E over tributary of Driver's Cr., Scotland, 72141
When was it listed? May 1995
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Liberty township
When was it built? 1940
National Register reference number. 95000570 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Van Buren County Road 2E Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,040 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Van Buren County Road 2E Bridge: 1 past producer. 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.

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

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this property

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotland, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 16 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 tornado, 2 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
March 1997	Tornado (F2)	Scotland	$100,000	no account filed
August 2018	Flash Flood	Scotland	-	Widespread flash flooding occurred across the area, with areas of Arkansas Hwy 95 flooded.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	Trees were likely blown down.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Scotland	-	Swift water rescues were completed to rescue 6 people from flash flooding along the South Fork of the Little Red River between Scotland and Walnut Grove in Van Buren County.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	A tree was down in Scotland.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	Trees were downed along Highway 336 and a roof was torn off of a deck.
April 2004	Tornado (F0)	Scotland	-	The storm that produced a weak tornado in northern Conway County spawned yet another weak tornado in southern Van Buren County almost 2 miles east of Scotland. This latest tornado caused minor tree damage before dissipating.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	Trees were blown down at Scotland.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	Several large trees were blown down.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	THUNDERSTORM WINDS KNOCKED DOWN SOME LARGE TREE LIMBS.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	Several buildings in Scotland were damaged by thunderstorm winds. Much of the damage consisted of roof damage.
July 1995	Hail	Scotland	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	Several trees were blown down.
April 2014	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
December 2003	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
November 2003	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
March 1999	Tornado (F3)	Scotland	-	no account filed
March 1999	Tornado (F1)	Scotland	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	no account filed
March 1999	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
April 1993	Hail	Scotland	-	no account filed
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Scotland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Van Buren County	All 15 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.