The South Fork Bridge is a historic bridge spanning the South Fork Saline River in

Fountain Lake, Arkansas Fountain Lake is a city in Garland County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 503 at the 2010 census. Geography Fountain Lake is located in eastern Garland County at . Accord ...

. It formerly carried

Arkansas Highway 128 Highway 128 (AR 128, Ark. 128, and Hwy. 128) is a designation for four east–west state highways in Southwest Arkansas. One route of begins at Highway 7 in Sparkman and runs east to Highway 9 at Holly Springs. A second route of be ...

, whose modern bridge now stands just to the south, a short way east of its junction with Arkansas Highway 5. It is a two-span concrete closed-

spandrel arch An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side. A viaduct ( ...

structure, with spans of and a roadway width of . It was built in 1928 by a county crew, after major flooding in 1927 damaged road infrastructure in the area. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

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* Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Bridges completed in 1928 Historic American Engineering Record in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Garland County, Arkansas Concrete bridges in the United States Arch bridges in the United States Transportation in Garland County, Arkansas 1928 establishments in Arkansas Ouachita River {{Arkansas-bridge-struct-stub

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