North Fork Bridge (Arkansas) Explained

North Fork Bridge
Coordinates:36.2136°N -92.2864°W
Builder:Vincennes Bridge Co.
Architect:Arkansas Highway & Transportation
Architecture:Warren deck truss
Added:April 9, 1990
Delisted:September 29, 2015
Refnum:90000512

The North Fork Bridge carries Arkansas Highway 5 over the North Fork River, or the North Fork of the White River, in Norfork, Arkansas, United States. It is a modern steel girder bridge, replacing a 1937 Warren deck truss bridge, which was the first road crossing of the North Fork River in Norfork. The 1937 bridge, demolished in 2014,[1] was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1990, but was delisted in 2015.

History

The 1937 bridge was a four-span structure designed by the Arkansas Highway & Transportation and built by Vincennes Bridge Co. A total of 518feet in length, the bridge represented an early example steel deck construction. Two of the spans were cantilevered, extending 28feet beyond the piers and providing the suspension points for the other two spans.[2] The bridge was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1988.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Historic Properties . Baxter County Historical Society . 2015-01-16 . 2015-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150116182813/http://www.baxtercountyhistory.org/HistoricProperties.cfm?print=n . dead .
  2. Web site: NRHP nomination for North Fork Bridge . Arkansas Preservation . 2015-01-16.
  3. Web site: North Fork Bridge, Spans North Fork of White River at State Highway 5, Norfork, Baxter County, AR . O'Reilly . Sean . 1988 . Historic American Engineering Record . Library of Congress . January 25, 2014.