Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.
From the record
“The Eakin Mill Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Vinton County, Ohio, United States. Located southeast of the county seat of McArthur, this bridge carries Mound Hill Road near the community of Arbaugh.”
Wikipedia article Eakin Mill Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Vinton County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.76001539- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1905 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19051992
Fires near this property
17 since 2012
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Eakin Mill Covered Bridge
between 2012 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
8
Debris and open burning
6
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Other causes
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 478 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Eakin Mill Covered Bridge between 1900 and 1975: 409 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 22 Fungi.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
s1ding fin1shed with battens, & sheet metal roof, projected portals and 1s a 14 panel double multiple kingpost with upper and lower chords in buckles has been added on each end of the bridge at the second truss DESCRIPTION CONDITION EXCELLENT UNALTERED rods with turnbuckles also are suspended from steel gussets at the top panel and these rods extend from upper to lower chord. steel tension sion, and diagonals, which are in compression. This triangular form has siding is still intact since early times.It consists of a center or kingpost which is in ten- Both upper and lower chords have been reinforced with steel channels.
CHECK ONE of the end posts and extend down to the base of the center kingpost -UNEXPOSED overall with a roadway width of 14i4w.A steel tension rod with turn- _GOOD joists, which in turn, rest on the lower chords. entire bridge has a pronounced camber giving it a Humpback appearance. 1y replaced one of shingles. DATE The overall length of Eakin Mill Covered Bridge presents much the same appearance today as The structure under consideration is a one-span wooden truss cwvered This bridge is known as the Eakin Mill, Geer's Mill or McLaughlin Bridge of the Appalachian Highway. This old span has vertical,high-boarded bridge spanning the Big Raccoon Creek at Arbaugh, Vinton Towmship, in 1t did one hundred years ago. The present sheet metal roof is undoubted- open it at this time.
lachian Highway damaged the bridge and the county closed it about five eastern Vinton County, Ohio on Mound Hill Road about one-half mile north The roof is in good condition and most of the for added support. Heavy trucks used in the constructiog of the Appa- three sections.
Iamed Humpback Covered Bridge (now on the National Register). At the call the postoffice at this site Arbaugh, after a prominent family in OI the foundation stones of the mill and part of the wooden foundation the double multiple kingpost such as this bridge, remain, todayd There around it, but the county has so far refused to relinquish ownership 1870/71 1400-1499 1700-1799 Historical RELIGION SIGNIFICANCE ART PERIOD BUILDER/ARCHITECT COMMERCE INVENTION THEATER AGRICULTURE ARCHITECTURE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT 1600-1699 INDUSTRY TRANSPORTATION SCULPTURE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT Gilman and Ward Company MILITARY people in the county still call both bridges the Geers Mill Bridget _COMMUNICATIONS neer's office and it comes from the name of the family who operated the with the true Burr truss.
Most multiple kingpost trusses that were built here in ohio were built using single timbers and only a few of _PREHISTORIC truss because the so-called arch is a segmented plank affair,,whose bridge from active service to the community. At one time, the trustees Henry Clay Geer who.bought the mill from the Eakins and operated it -SCIENCE the area and to avoid confusion with the other Geer's Mill. It is of the mill dam can still be seen below the bridge. $2,2o0.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001539, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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