Jones General Store and Esso Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Jones General Store and Esso Station is a historic Esso automotive service station and general store on Arkansas Highway 84 in Langley, Arkansas. It is a single-story structure built out of fieldstone, with concrete door and window lintels.”
Wikipedia article Jones General Store and Esso Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. AR 84 W., Langley, 71971
When was it listed? June 2000
Category. building
Also known as. Arkansas Highway History and Architecture MPS
Township. Mountain township
National Register reference number. 00000609 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Jones General Store and Esso Station between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,897 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 30 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	30
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	210 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	103 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	147
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	HOG PEN
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Jones General Store and Esso Station: 9 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Manganese, Clay, Slate, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Langley	Silica	Unknown
Pike Mining Co	Slate, Dimension	Unknown
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Unknown
Caddo River	Manganese	Unknown
Joseph Kehr Manganese	Manganese	Unknown
Prospect Number Three	Manganese	Prospect	1916
United Minerals Industries Inc	Manganese	Unknown
Unk	Manganese	Unknown
Boone Springs Creek Prospect	Barium-Barite	Unknown
Cogburn Deposit	Barium-Barite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langley, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 7 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2011	Flood	Langley	$1,000,000	no account filed
April 2011	Flood	Langley	$350,000	Widespread areal flooding occurred.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Langley	$50,000	Flash flooding occurred along the Little Missouri River, the Caddo River, and many of their tributaries. Many highways and secondary roads were flooded. In Glenwood, the Caddo River flooded the cattle auction business, a gas station, and a canoe rental business. Just west of Langley, the Little Missouri River rose from 3 feet to more than 23 feet in only 4 hours. Rainfall for the 24 hour period ending at 7 AM on the 11th included 7.60 inches at Glenwood and 7.20 inches at Langley. The majority of this rain occurred after thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours of the 11th.
May 2009	Flash Flood	Langley	$50,000	Several county roads were under water, and water entered the county jail at Murfreesboro.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Langley	$30,000	Damage occurred to roadways due to flash flooding.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Langley	$2,000	A tree was blown down, blocking Arkansas 369 north of U.S. 70.
August 2020	Flash Flood	Langley	-	The sheriff office reported portions of Highway 84 West near Langley was flooded.
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Langley	-	The COOP observer reported 12.73 inches for the event total rainfall.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Langley	-	Several county roads are impassable due to rapidly rising creeks near Langley.
April 2011	Heavy Rain	Langley	-	The reporting station at Langley recorded its wettest April ever.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Langley	-	Trees and power lines were reported down across Rocky Hollow Road.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Langley	-	Few trees downed.
April 2004	Tornado (F0)	Langley	-	A weak tornado was spawned in northern Pike County about 2 miles northwest of the Lodi community. The tornado snapped some trees and blew a few trees down. The tornado was on the ground about 2.5 miles before dissipating just northeast of Lodi.
June 1994	Hail	Langley	-	Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
April 2008	Hail	Langley	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Langley	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Langley	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Langley	-	no account filed
August 1998	Hail	Langley	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Langley	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Langley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Self Creek Bridge	7.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000609 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pike County	All 9 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.