Cove Creek Bridge

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1995 · category: Structure · built in 1936.

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 309 over Cove Cr., Corley, 72855
When was it listed? May 1995
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Mountain township
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 95000645 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Cove Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 414 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
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
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	BRAMLET CAMP FIRE
30 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	RED BENCH
12 September 1996	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	JUNK YARD
11 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ozark-St. Francis National Forests	POWERLINE
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan 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 Cove Creek 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 Logan County

Storms near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corley, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
January 2020	Tornado (EF2)	Corley	$500,000	The tornado touched down east of Cove Lake off of Mt. Salem Road where a barn was destroyed. It continued northeast damaging a mobile home along St. Louis Valley Road. After crossing Arkansas Hwy. 109 just west of Midway, the tornado destroyed a mobile home off of Old Military Rd. As it crossed Hwy. 109 again south of Prairie View, chicken houses were destroyed. Homes lost large sections of their roofs along Parks Rd. southeast of Prairie View, but most of their walls remained. Additional outbuildings and chicken houses were damaged or destroyed east of Scranton. Several trees and power lines were blown down along the path. The tornado lifted just north of the Tokalon community.
April 2011	Hail	Corley	-	Hail fell at Mount Magazine.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Corley	-	A tree was down just south of Cove Lake along Arkansas Highway 309.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Corley	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
July 2003	Hail	Corley	-	Hail up to golfball size damaged several vehicles.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Corley	-	Several large limbs were blown down.
July 2002	Hail	Corley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Burnett Springs	1.9 miles	1995
Cove Lake Bathhouse	2.5 miles	1995
Cove Lake Spillway Dam-Bridge	2.8 miles	1995
Cove Creek Tributary Bridge	3.5 miles	1995
John Gabriel Fort House	6.4 miles	1996
Liberty Schoolhouse	6.4 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000645 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan County	All 44 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.