The Works Progress Administration approved funding of $1,226,362 on December 11, 1939, for a county-wide project to "improve roads, including clearing; grubbing; excavating and grading; constructing curbs, gutters and bridges; draining; laying pipe; surfacing; and performing incidental and appurtenant work.

It was built in 1940 with the WPA funding and carries an historical association with the World War II era and open masonry substructure bridges.

At the time of its listing, it was considered "relatively intact" and its condition "retain[ed] sufficient integrity to remain associated with its historic period."

[3] A 1990 study reviewed 2,496 bridges built in Arkansas before 1941 which survived to 1990 and identified just 51 as potentially National Register-eligible.

[4] By its listing, the County Road 4G bridge was deemed consistent with the standards determined in that study, as a good surviving example of its type.