Frog Bayou Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Frog Bayou Bridge is a historic bridge in Crawford County, Arkansas, just south of Mountainburg. It is a single-span steel Parker through truss, which formerly carried Arkansas Highway 282 across Frog Bayou, a tributary of the Arkansas River.”
Wikipedia article Frog Bayou Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Crawford 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 282 over Frog Bayou, Mountainburg, 72946
When was it listed? May 1995
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
District. District 13
National Register reference number. 95000648 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

113 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Frog Bayou Bridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 801 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
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 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this property

60 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountainburg, the town this property stands in, in 72 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 33 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 7 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2019	Flash Flood	Mountainburg	$100,000	Ash Street bridge in Mountainburg was washed out by flood water.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Mountainburg	$50,000	Multiple homes were flooded with up to fourteen inches of water.
May 2025	Hail	Mountainburg	$15,000	Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
June 2025	Hail	Mountainburg	$15,000	Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
April 2020	Hail	Mountainburg	$5,000	Ping pong ball size hail damaged vehicles.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged a barn and snapped large tree limbs.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs and power lines.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down power lines.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew out a window of a home.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew trees and business signs down.
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$1,000	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$800	Several large trees were blown down near Mountainburg, and the flag pole at city hall was blown over.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees onto Highway 71 in Mountainburg.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree on Highway 71, southwest of Mountainburg.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 71 mph.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to be more than 75 mph.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree, and snapped large tree limbs.
May 2022	Flash Flood	Mountainburg	-	Highway 282 was flooded and closed at Frog Bayou.
April 2021	Flash Flood	Mountainburg	-	Portions Highway 282 were closed due to flooding.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees north of Mountainburg.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Mountainburg	-	Portions of Highway 282 were flooded and closed.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorm winds were estimated to 60 mph in Mountainburg.
December 2015	Flood	Mountainburg	-	Highway 282 southwest of Mountainburg was closed due to flooding.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down numerous large tree limbs.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 1999	Flash Flood	Mountainburg	-	Low-water crossings were flooded near Mountainburg
May 1997	Hail	Mountainburg	-	A severe thunderstorm produced dime size hail at Mountainburg.
November 1996	Flash Flood	Mountainburg	-	Thunderstorms during the evening of November 6th and early morning of November 7th produced widespread rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches across northwest Arkansas which resulted in flash flooding. In Benton County, street flooding occurred in Bentonville, a car was washed off a road 2 miles south of Lowell near the community of Bethel Heights, and numerous roads were flooded throughout the county. In Crawford County, street flooding occurred in Van Buren and in Mountainburg, and low water crossings and low-lying areas in Mountainburg were also flooded. In Madison County, State Highway 16 was flooded along the White River in the southern part of the county, and the intersection of State Highways 16 and 23 2 miles northeast of St. Paul was flooded. County roads and bridges were also flooded in and near Clifty. In Sebastian County, widespread street flooding occurred in and near Fort Smith, and State Highways 378 and 45 were flooded in the western and southern parts of the county. 3 to 4 feet of water covered State Highway 45 near Bonanza. In Washington County, low-lying areas and numerous county roads were flooded in and near Fayetteville. In Carroll County, street flooding occurred in Green Forest.
October 1995	Hail	Mountainburg	-	A severe thunderstorm in Crawford County produced dime-size hail at Uniontown and eight miles north of Mountainburg.
March 2024	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
March 2024	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
March 2022	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
February 2009	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	no account filed
November 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mountainburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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

3 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
Col. Jacob Yoes Building	4.3 miles	1975
Chester Masonic Lodge and Community Building	4.4 miles	2000
No. 12 School	7.1 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000648 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crawford County	All 35 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.