Fourche LaFave River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Perry County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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.
Address. AR 7 over Fourche LaFave R., Nimrod, 72857
When was it listed? May 1995
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. New Tennessee township
National Register reference number. 95000643 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Fourche LaFave River Bridge between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,507 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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	17
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	GARRETT
3 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Ouachita National Forest	POWER LINE
15 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	NORTH JUNCTION FIRE
11 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fourche LaFave River Bridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer
	Unk	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this property

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nimrod, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1993	Hail	Nimrod	$50,000	Hail up to golfball-size damaged a number of roofs.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nimrod	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nimrod	-	Trees were blown down around Nimrod.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Nimrod	-	A large tree was blown down along State Highway 60.
March 2003	Hail	Nimrod	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nimrod	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Wallace Bridge	5.6 miles	2008
Hollis Country Store	5.8 miles	2002
South Fourche LaFave River Bridge	5.9 miles	2004
Hawks Schoolhouse	6.6 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000643 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Perry 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.