Petit Jean River Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Petit Jean River Bridge is a historic bridge in rural southern Logan County, Arkansas. The bridge carries Old Highway 109 across the Petit Jean River between Sugar Grove and Magazine.”
Wikipedia article Petit Jean River Bridge (Logan County, Arkansas), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 109 over Petit Jean R., Sugar Grove, 72943
When was it listed? May 1995
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
Township. Petit Jean township
National Register reference number. 95000646 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

85 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Petit Jean River Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,128 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 19 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	25
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	FLAT ROCK
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	43 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Grove, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2002: 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 2002	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Sugar Grove	-	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
Magazine City Hall-Jail	3.7 miles	1993
Jack Creek Bathhouse	5.0 miles	1993
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Depot	5.7 miles	1978
Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Historic District	6.2 miles	2006
Logan County Courthouse, Southern Judicial District	7.0 miles	1997
Farmers and Merchants Bank-Masonic Lodge	7.4 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000646 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.
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.