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Photograph of Sylamore Creek Bridge
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sylamore Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Sylamore Creek Bridge is a historic bridge in east central Stone County, Arkansas, just south of the Ozark-St. It carries County Road 283 across Sylamore Creek, a short way west of Arkansas Highway 9 and north of the Holiday Mountain Resort in Allison.”

Wikipedia article Sylamore Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1999 · 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. Co. Rd. 283 over Sylamore Cr., Allison, 72560
  • When was it listed? November 1999
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Bridges of Arkansas MPS
  • District. District 1
  • National Register reference number. 99001353 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

105 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Sylamore Creek Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,209 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 26 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsGREEN
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsLONG
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsROSA
20 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Smokingunder an acreOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR
8 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1997Debris and open burning100 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Sylamore Creek Bridge: 9 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allison Mine & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Allison PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mountain View PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mountain View PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stone County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stone County PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stone County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allison, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011FloodAllison$1,000,000no account filed
April 2011FloodAllison$400,000Widespread areal flooding occurred.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAllison$30,000Trees were blown down and a number of barns were damaged.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAllison$5,000Trees were blown down along Arkansas 5.
July 2024Heavy RainAllison-In the community of Allison, 5.15 inches of rainfall fell over a 24 hour period.
July 2024Heavy RainAllison-A CoCoRaHS station (AR-ST-6), 2.3 miles north of the town of Mountain View, measured 6.20 inches of rainfall that fell over a 24 hour period.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAllison-Numerous trees were blown down along highway 9 in Allison.
April 2017HailAllison-Nickel size hail was covering the ground and reported through social media.
March 2008Flash FloodAllison-Water was overflowing from ditches and flooding roads.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindAllison-Trees were reported down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAllison-Several trees were knocked down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAllison-Several large trees were blown down.
June 1995HailAllison-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindAllison-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
April 2013Funnel CloudAllison-no account filed
May 2010HailAllison-no account filed
April 2007HailAllison-no account filed
May 2006HailAllison-no account filed
May 2000Flash FloodAllison-no account filed
May 2000Flash FloodAllison-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAllison-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindAllison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stone 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Mirror Lake Historic District3.4 miles1995
Miles Jeffery Barn3.5 miles1985
Clark-King House3.6 miles1985
Fred Lancaster Barn4.2 miles1985
Mountain View Waterworks4.4 miles2006
Dew Drop Inn4.6 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001353 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone CountyAll 58 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.