Fort Smith, Arkansas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 46 shown

• Fort Smith National Historic SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Harold Adams Office Buildinglisted 2014
• Atkinson-Williams Warehouselisted 1979
• William Ayers Houselisted 1999
• Birney Safety Streetcar No. 224listed 1994
• Bonneville Houselisted 1971
• C. R. Breckinridge Houselisted 1979
• Camp Chaffee Tank Destroyer Battalion Historic Districtlisted 2011
• Oscar Chambers Houselisted 2016
• W. H. H. Clayton Houselisted 1970
• Commercial Hotellisted 1973
• Dodson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2006

Every listing in Sebastian County

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1879 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:62500
• 1887 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1976 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:24000
• 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fort Smith between 1996 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Mill Creek
• Massard
• South Fort Smith
• Barling
• Bashe
• Buell

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fort Smith: 8 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aggregate, Light Weight, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Sebastian County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Smith in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Sebastian County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 76952. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.