Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District encompasses a collection of connected school buildings at 512 Black Street in Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Arkansas. The main school building is a somewhat vernacular single-story brick structure with a gable-on-hip roof, built in 1941 with funding from the Works Progress Administration.”
Wikipedia article Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 162 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 512 Black St., Sulphur Springs, 72768
When was it listed? February 2001
Category. district
Township. Township 4
National Register reference number. 01000113 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

36 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,272 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2

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
6 August 2012	Natural	50 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2012	Natural	44 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs Old School Complex Historic District: 9 past producers, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Armstrong & Cravens Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
John P Hughes Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Joplin-Elk River Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lewis Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Madge Stone Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mill Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulphur Springs, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 1993	Tornado (F0)	Sulphur Springs	$5,000	A weak F0 tornado touched down in Sulphur Springs. The tornado touched down in an isolated area and travelled a very short distance before lifting. The only damage was a few trees blown down.
March 1996	Hail	Sulphur Springs	-	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulphur Springs	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulphur Springs	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Sulphur Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Jones House	0.2 miles	1988
Camp Crowder Gymnasium	0.3 miles	2011
Shiloh House	0.4 miles	1988
Sulphur Springs Park Reserve	0.5 miles	1999
Wee Pine Knot	0.7 miles	1999
Adar House	1.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000113 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 162 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.