The Petit Jean River Bridge was a historic bridge in rural northeastern

Yell County, Arkansas Yell County is a county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,263. The county has two county seats, Dardanelle and Danville. Yell County is Arkansas's 42nd county, formed on December 5, 1840, from portio ...

. It is located north of

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, and carries County Road 49 across the

Petit Jean River The Petit Jean River is a river in west-central Arkansas. The river rises in the Ouachita Mountains in northern Scott County; it flows through Logan County and Yell County, defining the border between Yell County and Conway County before reachi ...

. It was a single-span

Pratt through truss A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or s ...

, with a truss length of long, and a total structure length of . The trusses rest on concrete pillars. The bridge was wide, allowing for a single lane of traffic. Built in 1930, it was one of three Pratt truss bridges in the county. On February 1, 2019, the bridge was destroyed by an undertrained trucker who was unable to comprehend the clearly marked weight limits of the structure (15 tons) The bridge was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2010, and was delisted in 2019.

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Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Yell County, Arkansas Bridges completed in 1930 Pratt truss bridges in the United States Metal bridges in the United States Former National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas 1930 establishments in Arkansas Transportation in Yell County, Arkansas 2019 disestablishments in Arkansas Demolished buildings and structures in Arkansas {{YellCountyAR-NRHP-stub

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